Inspiration

This project is inspired by the challenge: building a useless hack that uses an API. I got inspired by some of the streams about APIs that I watched, in which the Pokemon API was called out multiple times. I used this API to build a Rock Paper Scissor suggester. As RPS is all about luck, this app is truly, completely, useless!

What it does

It sends a quick string that tells the user what the best pick is (Rock, paper or scissor) with limited errors.

How we built it

Pretty simply, I fetch the count of pokemon, and then add a completely random amount to then decide what should be outputted by a quick modulus function.

Challenges we ran into

Finding the idea was the hardest part, but I came to a conclusion pretty fast.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Using the pokemon API for the first time!

What we learned

How to host on render, Pokemon API, and express.js.

What's next for RPS Suggester

Building a frontend, and adding countless other APIs to after all, still accomplish nothing for the user!

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