Question of the Date

No more boring dates or hangouts!

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Inspiration

I've been married 20 years, and luckily to a woman that keeps lists and lists of questions and topics to talk about. We've seen others just sit over there food, never talking or connecting with each other. I wanted to build something fun that could help others connect with each other - whether you're on a first date, or have been married for 30 years.

What it does

Question of the Date is a simple app that offers some standard, clickable prompts to help understand your mood, date intensity, and interests - and through the power of AI, spits out questions for you and your partner (or friend) to ask during your date.

How I built it

I was inspired by the "One Shot Prompt" and wanted to see how much we could integrate in that one single prompt. I wanted to use both a database and login features (through Supabase) and also an AI API integration (I used Grok for it's edginess and price).

This competition was the first time I've ever built something using a no-code, AI builder (I don't have much of a coding background - just knowledge with HTML/CSS and a tiny bit of javascript).

I first used ChatGPT to help come up with a prompt that would hit everything I wanted out of the app, but also gave Bolt.new a little room to be creative and do what it does best.

We used the one single prompt, and only had a couple of errors to fix afterwards.

Challenges I ran into

The main issue was making sure that the app wasn't only using the fallback questions. Bolt discovered that it was using fallback questions because it had implemented a max token usage of 400, so Grok didn't have enough tokens available to respond. That was quickly doubled, and the issue was fixed!

Because I only used one prompt, the results aren't as refined and as great as I would like - some questions are really cheesy, or a little too in-depth of a question for the circumstance. I decided to leave it for now, and will hopefully improve after the competition is over!

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

This is an idea that has been cooking in my mind for years. My wife had the idea for the domain, so I bought that several years ago. It's really fun to see that with just one prompt you can build something that's fully functional and even better than what I would have come up with after perhaps a few months of coding!

What I learned

I learned that AI is good at parsing information, but not incredibly great at the human touch or sensitivity quite yet. Perhaps I'll experiment with other LLM's to see if the questions are better, but also am looking forward to adjust my prompts and context so the LLM's can get better at coming up with great questions.

What's next for Question of the Date

Just what I mentioned above - improving the output of the questions. Perhaps I would integrate some kind of payment for premium features, or even make this into a mobile application!

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