Project Idea Generator Used AI

Made the readme.md file. also uptimerobot doesn't do anything so I might have to find another solution to keep it on such as adding an head route so that uptimerobot can call that. idk if it works but i will try it.

I had to make some changes to the code to host it. its hosted now, though! https://project-idea-gen-frontend.vercel.app/. That's the frontend. also, for the backend, I used Render, but it shuts down after inactivity, so I was gonna use Nest to host. this is why I wrote a whole setup.sh file. Then I realized that I could use Uptimerobot to ping my render webservice, and it will never go down. Yay!

That sure took a while. It took so long to get both sides working. It took me probably 40 minutes to get the backend working and then 1 hour working on the frontend. I am proud of the frontend, though I was originally going to make a table, but I am so glad I did this instead; it looks so good. It probably took me longer than it should have, but I like it.

That lowkey took longer than I expected it to. I added a search feature, and there were some issues with the way I was handling incoming requests in the backend, so I had to rewrite the search api as well as add a new endpoint that is the debug database, which returns the number of ideas currently in the database. Currently it searches in the title and description columns of the db

I used Chrome's built-in PDF converter to make it exportable as a PDF, although it's not the best. I might work on making it color-coded in the future, but for now, this is good enough.

I added functionality for the users to make a plan on how to start their projects. Its sends a backend call to ai and ai generates it.

I added the ability to generate ideas based on a prompt. I originally wanted to simply click a button and get a random idea, but with the same prompt, I always got the same result, so I pivoted to having the user provide a prompt. The user also has the option not to be added to the database. I did struggle for a bit with all the functionalities, but eventually got it down.

That took soo long, I went through so many different iterations for the css. I am using tailwind like I always do, but this time I went thought a lot of different ideas on how I wanted the website to look before I got to the final one. I originally wanted the website to have a summer.hackclub.com feel (this website), but then I pivoted to a white mode and then lastly to a dark mode type feel. I want to add some animations where, when I go from one section to the next, it looks like the next section pops out and takes the space of the first section instead of being beneath each other. I might not get to that, but I guess we'll see how it goes.

I added a voting system for the projects