Great question! The main point is not the app itself, it's that you can build something easily as a fully-functioning app on Lightning and let us handle the underlying infrastructure orchestration for you. It's OSS, so if you want you can click "clone it" today, and you will have a version running on your cloud. Fully reproduced, fully functional. You can then drill down and see all the code that made it work, keep what you want, and change what you need to.

A huggingface space or a colab is great for a demo, but you can't build whatever UI you want, you can't add monetization, authentication, etc. You're just just limited to a demo. This is a great way to show something off quickly, but when you want to turn it into a product that's entirely another animal.

We believe people and companies will want to build fully functioning, scalable products for end-users, not just demo their work.