How I built an AI powered prayer web app
Family
I grew up in a Christian home. My dad is a pastor, and he made sure that my siblings and I attended every church service and read the Bible every single day. We read it with so much joy and seriousness because we wanted to understand every word. This was between the ages of two and seven.
When I turned seven, we had to move to a new apartment. It was very far from the church and I could hardly attend services. I tried going to other churches, but it never felt the same, and it was not as frequent as before. This continued until I eventually got into college to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Believe
While in college, I would often call my mum to ask for Bible scriptures I could pray with. Sometimes it was for an upcoming exam, sometimes for a campus competition. No matter what it was, I always called her. I still do. It is a special connection we share, and I truly treasure it.
Recently, I asked myself a simple question. Why not create a small web app that can help me create personalised prayers with scriptures easily, let me save the ones I love, and even share them with friends? Something simple and personal.
So I built prayerreels.com. I designed it to feel like scrolling through short reels. Simple, clean, and responsive. I really believe I created something special.
Check it out. It is free to use.
Please share it with your friends.
Technical breakdown
I built the entire web app using Laravel for the backend and Vue.js for the frontend. I used Inertia JS as the bridge that connects both frameworks.
Background images are dynamically gotten and cached from pexels.com, while the personalized prayers are generated using the OpenAI model gpt o4 mini.
The web app is deployed with Forge to a VPS on Digital Ocean