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Roy Ronalds
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Building The ELF, a handcrafted-gift planning app, with AWS Bedrock

Are you as bad as me at coming up with gifts? Here's my contribution towards the holiday season. I call it The ELF, and briefly explain what led me to create and it how you can use it:

  • I really suck at coming up with gifts for my loved ones. I waaaannt to, because they're great, but I just never know what to do or how to do it. Does that sound like you to? It is me. So I created an app which just for fun I have named "The Elf" where you can describe a loved one's hobbies and likes and dislikes and such, and the AI language model suggests crafts and other homemade things to create for them.

  • Everyone, it has suggested some of the best gifts that I will have given in 30 years, things that are so obvious and yet so perfect for the people I put in; it blows New York Times gift recommendation posts out of the water, and it also blows my own personal gift brainstorming skills out of the water.

  • Why does it work well? Because you know the person and the AI knows lots of approaches to creating homeade items written about across the web. So it combines your personalized knowledge with the AI's broad knowledge into a personal result for your giftee.

Try it out:

Homemade Gift Planner Elf

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