Creating a Neural Network Based MAUI Mobile App - Part 2 (RunPod)

With Colab timing out on non-trivial training runs, Stephen Moreton-Howell experiments with RunPod to train a face-generating GAN destined for a .NET MAUI app, and documents the real-world friction along the way.

What you’ll learn

• Why move beyond Colab — hitting free-GPU timeouts when training larger networks like a faces GAN
• Setting up RunPod — creating an account, adding credit, and choosing a GPU pod
• The real-world snags — pods hanging on initialization, scarce GPU availability, and unexpected charges
• Migrating notebooks — moving a WGAN Jupyter notebook from Colab into RunPod’s Jupyter Lab
• The verdict — why he ultimately returned to Google Colab for now

Read the full post for the day-by-day account, and start with part 1 for the ONNX-to-MAUI pipeline.