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Inspiration
Everybody knows how annoying it can be to develop web applications. But this sentiment is certainly true for those who have minimal to no working experience with web development. We were inspired by the power of Cohere LLM's to transform natural language into many different forms and in our case, to generate websites. With this, we are able to quickly turn a users idea into a website which they can download and edit on the spot.
What it does
SiteSynth turns natural language input into a clean formatted and stylized website.
How we built it
SiteSynth is powered by Django in the back end and HTML/CSS/JS in the front end. In the back end, we use the Cohere generate API to generate the HTML and CSS code.
Challenges we ran into
Some challenges that we ran into were with the throttled API and perfecting the prompt. One of the most important parts of an NLP project is the input prompt to the LLM. We spent a lot of time perfecting the prompt of the input in order to ensure that the output is HTML code and ONLY HTML code. Also, the throttled speed of API calls slowed down our development and leads to a slow running app. However, despite these hardships, we have ended up with a project that we are quite proud of.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
The project as a whole was a huge accomplishment which we are very happy with, but there are some parts which we appreciate more than others. In particular, we think the design of the main page is very clean. Likewise, the backend, while messy, does the job very well and we are proud of that.
What we learned
This project was very insightful for learning about new cutting edge technologies. While we have worked with Django before, this was our first time working with the Cohere API (or any LLM API for that matter) and the importance of verbose and specific prompts was certainly highlighted. We also learned how difficult it can be to create a full-fledged application in a day in a half.
What's next for SiteSynth
For the future, there are many ways in which we can improve SiteSynth. In particular, we know that images are integral to web development and as such we would like to properly integrate images. Likewise, with a proper API key, we could speed up the app tremendously. Finally, by also supporting dynamic templates, we can make the websites truly unique and desired.
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