Fursona: The Image Machine

This project was created for fun while exploring AI-powered image analysis with modern web technologies. We built a full-stack application using Flask/Python for the backend and React/Vite for the frontend, integrating Google's Gemini AI for intelligent image processing. The project taught us about API authentication, file upload handling, CORS configuration, and coordinating multiple development servers. Our biggest challenge was working with the Google Gemini API. Its challenging aspect came from understanding authentication and managing API keys securely to debugging errors and structuring requests properly. Despite hurdles with dependency management and error handling, we successfully created a functional web app that demonstrates creative AI-visual content interaction while gaining valuable real-world full-stack development experience.