About a year ago I started on a journey with ChatGPT, I was amazed by the potential benefits of LLMs and was hooked. I thought about creating my own project that would use ChatGPT but enable TTS Capability to have a more immersive AI experience. The problem was I had no idea how to code, I started doing some research and found out about the APIs. From there I started learning with GPT how to write API Calls and created a jupyter notebook where I was able to connect OpenAI to GoogleTTS and 11labs APIs I was pretty stunned how it just ~worked. I was hooked and kept learning how to add more features, use different models etc.
I thought I would try to take it to the next level and build my own site, I own a couple of domains but had never done anything with them so I used one of them and learnt NextJS to deploy exofi.app on Vercel. I was happy but wanted to keep going and allow other people to use it so created an authentication system using Postgres SQL to allow users to sign up and log in to the app. Today the website is still up and running with almost 10,000 visitors to date, the UI/UX still has a long way to go an I’m learning about tailwind CSS and UI Libraries to overhaul the UI.
I just wanted to say to anyone who has thought about using ChatGPT to learn programming, or anything else to just go for it! I by no means would call myself a professional but I’m pretty amazed with how much I was able to accomplish using ChatGPT as a teacher, co-pilot, mentor and more.
For anyone who want’s to check out the website you can at exofi.app - It’s completely free and unlimited for registered users right now. I am working on a subscription model that would allow paid users to access more features that I am working on such as real-time multilingual voice translation and more.