I'm pretty excited about openai's api. Every now and then, I like to keep my programming skills current by doing something simple but instructive.
For fun I put together the following utility for searching tariff codes worldwide. Why? It seemed like a
simple well defined task that would be useful to lots of people.
I also wanted to test how quickly I could do this using gpt-4 to assist with writing the underlying code, and also in guiding me through the process of
setting up a website running on the google cloud.
It took me a Saturday afternoon to put this together, including setting up the virtual machine, flask server, getting the domain name, setting up the
ssl certificate, getting port forwarding to work, and making it look reasonably nice.
tariffcodes.org.