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WikiTok

(wikitok.vercel.app)
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aizk ◴[] 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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aizk ◴[] No.42940626[source]
Not to plug myself too shamelessly, but here's my resume if anyone is interested :) https://www.aizk.sh/Isaac's%20Resume.pdf
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Narciss ◴[] No.42947296[source]
This is far from a shameless plug, you built the thing! V nice love the idea.
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1. aizk ◴[] No.42968595[source]
I think tomorrow I'm going to write a detailed blog of exactly what I did building out WikiTok. One last little bit of info on this subject (and at the end of it I'll say that I'm open to work or whatever).