Daily Novelty

Inspiration

I wanted to do something using cloud functions and I thought it would be fun to mess around with APIs.

What it does

A silly project that sends a daily email of novelty to users that is filled with random facts and jokes from APIs that they choose.

How I built it

I used Google Cloud Platform for the authentication, database, and cloud functions running in the backend. For each user, it fetches all the data and creates a document in the database. That document is used to send an email with Twilio to the user, which is formatted/styled with MJML.

What I learned

Cloud functions are pretty powerful and email formatting is tricky.

Built With

• gcp
• react
• sendgrid
• twilio