Published on: 2026-05-15
Now I know I can be an AI skeptic, but here is what changed..
Written by: Darryl `Ryuujisan32` Williams
The other day I had this wild idea that I would create an Ask Jeeves clone. Ask Jeeves (ask.com) was the first search engine I ever used. I always found the bulter character to be charming and I got a chuckle everytime I would use the engine to discover something new online. It all felt magical to me. Earlier this month Ask.com closed for good, leaving behind years of legacy. I decided that I would create an assistant tool for myself that will run all the tasks that I do everyday but with a web based interface. This ended up being a slightly bigger task than I thought, but I was up for the challenge.
The stack so far is Vue, Node, and possibly Mongo; I haven’t fully decided on backend just yet as I just wrote my first few lines of code for this a few days ago. I’m integrating the Gemini api and possibly firebase for deployment and hosting. Honestly, I could use Netlify, as they have free hosting and this isn’t something I’m charging money for right out the gate.
I look forward to where this takes me.
You can follow along with the repo at: Codeberg