Yahoo! Time Capsule

This is a time capsule to access the old Yahoo! page. We use AI to generate relevant articles and images for the entered year. You enter a year to see different generated news, music, and sports.

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Inspiration

The theme was nostalgia. We decided to make a Yahoo! time capsule where you can enter a year and then see the relevant news and sports articles for that year.

What it does

This project generates news headlines using OpenAI and the writes articles based on these headlines. It writes full articles based on headlines and displays it in an old school format.

How we built it

We built it with NextJS and FastAPI. We used vercel for the frontend deployment and digital ocean for the backend.

I dockerized our backend and deployed it to a kubernetes cluster to serve our different backend endpoints.

Challenges we ran into

We were originally going to incorporate a chatting feature, but ran short on time. Also, since our droplet is HTTP and vercel is HTTPS, we had to find a work around for making requests.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We are very proud of the UI design as it is a near 1:1 replica of Yahoo! from 2005.

What we learned

Creating a GPT wrapper is easier than we thought.

What's next for Yahoo! Time Capsule

We plan to create an old style chatting feature.

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