ToBeeContinued

Inspiration

We were inspired by Wattpad's creative outlet for letting authours tell stories and realized that people deserve to read stories tailored to their own needs too. "To Bee Continued" helps people not only get the ball rolling when it comes to producing scripts, visual graphics, and general flow of plot, but also provides ready to access entertainment for all users. It is a very exciting website and is all working within our cute Bee themed website!

What it does

Our project takes the user's input (key words or a statement which best represents the theme of the story they want) and outputs 5 different prompts. The user can select any of these prompts or regenerate a new set of prompts, which then helps generates the story's title, plot, and pictures. The user can regenerate any of these elements if they are unsatisfied.

How we built it

We built the website using with the help of HTML, CSS and Javascript. This was responsible for the entire aesthetic side of theUI. The code itself which incorporated the user's input was thanks to the help of Javascript and the usage of OpenAI's Dall-E and GPT3 API's.

Challenges we ran into

We ran into a multitude of challenges. Considering that 3 of us are first year students and 2 of us are first time hackers, we don't possess as much skill as we could've had. We learned as the progress progressed in ways such as designing the website in a more visually appealing way as well as properly utilizing API's for the first time. We also ran into issues optimizing OpenAI to help generate appropriate results based on given prompts as well as reducing the number of API calls to make our website faster.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of creating a seamless final product which gets the job at hand done. At times, we worried that it wouldn't be possible but we pushed through and it was worth it in the end. It's very fun to play around with our project.

What we learned

We learned how to incorporate API's into a seamless final product as well as strengtening our web development skills as mostly backend programmers.

What's next for ToBeContinued

Our next step for ToBeContinued would be to host it onto a website where it can work properly instead of being a stagnant Github Pages site. This was because we were unable to encrypt the API keys and didn't believe it was wise to put it onto the web. This could be successfully done through better Django skills however our lack of coding experience as first year students and first time hackers held us back.