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WikiTok

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1459 points Group_B | 1 comments | 04 Feb 25 18:40 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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aizk ◴[04 Feb 25 18:56 UTC] No.42936923[source]▶
Hi! I'm the dev here! I built this on a whim at after seeing someone ask for it on twitter. It was 12:30 at night but I couldn't pass down the opportunity to build it.

The code is very simple, there's no backend at all actually, I believe because wikipedia's api is very permissive and you can just make the requests in the frontend. So you just simply request random articles, get some snippets, and the image attached!

I used Claude and cursor do 90% of the heavy lifting, so I am positive there's plenty of room for optimizations. But right now as it stands, it's quite fun to play with, even without anything very sophisticated.

Here is the source code. https://github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok

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1. mostertoaster ◴[04 Feb 25 20:07 UTC] No.42937871[source]▶
Wow this is surprisingly addictive :)

Nice job whipping up something so simple, yet elegant, so fast.

This is what I love about LLM tools like cursor, it makes the effort to just try and build something so low, you can just try it one night, and can make cool things that might not have been built otherwise.