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I Built a Mood Ring for the Internet in 24 Hours

DEV Community·acode123·about 1 month ago
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It was around 1am and I had three feeds open. X on my phone, Reddit on one monitor, Hacker News on the other. I was reading about a plane crash, a new AI model, and a meme war about whether oat milk counts as milk. And I realised I had no idea what the internet was actually feeling about any of it. The feeds told me what was happening. They didn't tell me how it felt. That's when the idea hit me. What if you could open one tab and just see the mood of the internet? Not the headlines. The mood. So I built it. It's called Internet Pulse, and this post is how I shipped it in a weekend. What it actually does Internet Pulse is a live dashboard that shows you the dominant emotion of the internet right now. You open it, and within five seconds you know if the internet is angry, joyful, anxious, or quiet. You see what it's feeling that way about. And you can drag a timeline back to watch how the mood shifted over the last week. That's it. It's a mood ring for the web.…

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