A 24/7 AI agent for zero money: a Turkish founder shows the full setup step by step

Building an AI agent requires neither a cloud bill nor API fees; Turkish founder Doruk Yalçınsoy, who runs Türkiye's Claude Code community, proved it with a 10-minute video. The recipe has four free parts: the agent's home is an E2 Micro server on Google's always-free tier, its body is the open source Hermes agent framework, its brain is Z.ai's free GLM 4.5 Flash model, and its door is Telegram. The result is a personal agent you talk to by message or voice note from your phone, running around the clock at zero cost.

The example in the video is refreshingly practical: a dietitian agent that tracks what you eat and drink. Instead of logging meals by hand, Yalçınsoy tells it over Telegram; the agent records everything and reports back on request. Since Google's free tier includes 30 GB of storage, the database lives on the same server, and skills and memory persist.

He does not hide the trade-offs either: the Hermes structure is less flexible than the local agents he builds inside VS Code with markdown files, and for complex work he still recommends a local setup. But for a fast, single-purpose, free agent he finds the equation clear: home Google, body Hermes, brain GLM Flash, door Telegram. The same bot, he adds, can also be wired to WhatsApp.

The video spread quickly through the Turkish AI community, with accounts like G-Code sharing it as a must-watch and praising that the knowledge is offered for free. The picture is familiar to us too: we covered Hermes, where agents message each other, and on-device agents this week; this video is proof those structures are now open to every Turkish speaker on a zero budget.

Watch the full tutorial with English subtitles

The original video is in Turkish; we transcribed and subtitled it in English so it travels. Full credit to Doruk Yalçınsoy; the original is on X.