Susty Ventures

City Quiz

There are a staggering number of cities in US, the majority for which I have almost no visual reference. Also, searching the web for ready-made interfaces such as a quiz rarely returns a match for the exact use-case. However, now with LLM code-generators it should be easy to spin one up with a prompt.

So I used Replit to code up a quiz interface, looked up the 65 largest metros, searched for images for each using Pexels image search API, and ported it all over to this website.

Some of the pictures are only tangentially (or not at all) related to their subject. This is from the image search API. Looking at the image alt for the description gave some additional context to pick the best image, but there still are cases where this wasn't enough to find the best matching image in the dataset, and so along with an exploration on how quickly one can truly vibe code an app (pretty fast to get to 70%, a long time for the remaining 30%), this quiz also represents the amusing ways in which stock photography gets tagged.

Good luck and have fun!