# If the photo is the product, run the model where the photo already lives

- Category: business
- Author: Titus Nicolae (https://indie.md/people/titus-nicolae/)
- Source: https://indie.md/events/indie-tm-14-timisoara-august-2026/
- Canonical URL: https://indie.md/advice/run-the-room-model-on-device/

HausJam's two heavy passes, about twenty seconds to clean a room and twenty to estimate light, are the line items that would destroy a consumer margin the moment traffic arrives. Titus's preferred answer is to run the first useful slice on the user's own machine, an eight or nine gigabyte model that cold-starts in about twenty seconds and, if they can pull it off, still works on integrated graphics. That is the same economic move Naramine made with in-browser Kokoro, applied to furniture: the free or early tier brings its own compute, and the cloud becomes an upgrade rather than the default. When your unit of value is an image the user already has, ask whether that image ever needs to leave the laptop. Recurring GPU rent is a tax on success. Hardware the user already paid for is not.