Don't build another effin' chatbot — Web Dev Challenge S1E1

Sponsored by DataStax (https://lwj.dev/astra-db) — What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Lizzie Siegle, Chance Strickland, Jack Herrington, and Jason Lengstorf took on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. #webdevelopment #challenge #ai #javascript #python #reactjs THE CHALLENGE Build an AI-powered app that's not another f%*#ing chatbot. So much of what we see in the AI space are variations on the chatbot interface. Carter at DataStax challenged the devs to build something different. THE TOOL All apps must use Astra DB as part of the final build. Astra DB provides a vector store and tools for generating vector embeddings from any data you choose. Give it a try yourself: https://lwj.dev/astra-db THE DEVS Lizzie Siegle (https://www.lizziesiegle.xyz) Chance Strickland (https://chance.dev/) Jack Herrington (@jherr) Jason Lengstorf (@codetv-dev) THE ADVISOR Carter Rebasa (https://github.com/crtr0) THE APPS Jack's DnD Encounter Generator: https://github.com/jherr/astradb-dnd Jason's related videos PoC: https://not-another-chatbot.netlify.app/ · https://github.com/learnwithjason/wdc-not-another-chatbot Lizzie's Star Wars fanfic generator: https://github.com/elizabethsiegle/star-wars-fanfic-generator-streamlit-astra-cf Chance's burger generator: https://github.com/chaance/carters-burgers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get early access to new videos, exclusive bonus content and other perks, and join me in building a happier, healthier, friendlier web dev community! https://www.youtube.com/@codetv-dev/join ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 0:00 In this episode... 0:41 The Challenge 1:39 What are vector databases used for? 3:21 Jason's plan 4:41 Lizzie's plan 5:33 Jack's plan 5:51 Chance's plan 6:21 Building 12:08 Demo time! 12:35 Jack's app 14:37 Jason's app 16:49 Lizzie's app 18:55 Chance's app 20:43 Final thoughts