The Campfire

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Inspiration

The theme for the hackathon
Emerging LLM AI technologies and access through APIs

What it does

A simple chatroom alongside a bonfire to illicit a sense of peace with company.

How I built it

Node.js and React to build the overall website (Started with create-react-app)
Spline to design and model a bonfire 3D animation
Github and Github Actions to manage and handle automatic build and deploy directly to Azure App Services
Register and setup the domain with GoDaddy and Porkbun
Host the website using Azure App Services
Use of Infobip API to text me the status of my build and deployment
Call the OpenAI API to send and receive GPT-4 text generation conversation
Website Icon built using Figma and exported to *.ico format using plugins

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

This is my first hackathon and I'm glad I was able to produce a cool product, and I got to learn and build my project using all new technologies to me. I'm a Medical Sciences student doing Bioinformatics, so my technical experience mainly comprises of scripting and command line applications in Python and R. Since I don't have any experience creating websites and GUIs connected to a backend, I wanted to produce something so I know how the process and pipeline works. I am happy with the result, and hope to explore React and other similar frameworks more to be able to host and share projects that others can use.