AI Micro-Internship · ~240 min · builder
Ship an app that mashes a real API with AI
Most real products are plumbing: take data from one place, add intelligence, show it usefully. Build and deploy an app that combines a real public API with an LLM — live data in, AI-processed insight out.
Steps
- 01Pick a free public API with live data: Open-Meteo (weather), OpenAQ (air), Frankfurter (currency), a cricket score API, or data.gov.in.
- 02Design the mashup: what does the AI ADD to the raw data? (e.g. weather → "should I water the plants today?" advice in Marathi; currency → plain-language trend explanation).
- 03Build and deploy it (free host). Handle the ugly parts: API failures, rate limits, weird data.
- 04Push code to a public repo and document one case where the AI’s output was wrong or unhelpful, and how you constrained it.
Tools: A free public API, A free LLM API (Gemini free tier), GitHub + a free host
Your submission
Submit the live URL, repo, what the AI adds beyond the raw data, and the failure case you handled. We’ll use the app.