I Built an AI-Powered Art Digest That Writes and Illustrates Itself
What happens when you combine real-time news, generative AI, and modern art?
You get Unjica — a living, breathing editorial that curates and reimagines contemporary art stories using OpenAI and custom code.
💡 Why I Built It
As a developer and art enthusiast, I wanted to create something that:
- Keeps up with the fast-moving world of art and exhibitions,
- Feels editorial (not robotic),
- Looks beautiful, like a curated magazine,
- And updates itself — daily.
🛠️ How It Works
- Next.js + App Router: for structure and speed
- Prisma + PostgreSQL: to store and filter news
- OpenAI (GPT-4o & DALL·E 3): to generate articles and header images
- R2 Storage: to persist DALL·E outputs
- Scheduled CRON jobs on Vercel: for daily automation
- Markdown content: clean, simple, structured
✨ What Makes It Interesting
- Articles sound like real human writers — critical, witty, even poetic.
- Visuals are generated with painterly prompts (no generic AI mush).
- It's self-sustaining — I just keep refining it.
Here's a recent post to give you a taste.
🧪 Challenges
- Tuning prompts to avoid generic AI tone
- Balancing automation with taste
- Making SEO work with dynamic Open Graph images
🚀 What’s Next?
- Integrating artist interviews
- Letting users vote on which stories should be featured
- Adding human + AI collaboration tools
Would love your thoughts — or any feedback on how to make it more useful for creators or art lovers.
Thanks for reading 🙏
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