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Beginner10h1–2
Vision LLMNext.jsLocal storage
16/20Trip Photos to Travel Story
Turn a folder of trip photos into a captioned day-by-day travel story.
Beginner10h1–2 people16/20 fit
Build Trip Photos to Travel Story for travellers and families in ~10h with 1–2 people. Stack: Vision LLM + Leaflet + Next.js.
Why it wins: Emotional and very visual for a beginner build.
Build flow
01 · Problem
Trip photos sit unsorted and never become something worth sharing.
02 · Solution
Read photo timestamps and locations, group them by day, caption them with a vision LLM and write a short story page with a map.
03 · Build
- 1Read EXIF time and GPS
- 2Group photos by day
- 3Caption with a vision LLM
- 4Render a story page with a Leaflet map
04 · Demo
Upload 40 photos and present the generated story page.
MVP checklist
- Day grouping
- Auto captions
- Story text
- Route map
Tech stack
| Tech | Role | |
|---|---|---|
| Vision LLM | Image understanding | AI |
| Leaflet | Interactive maps | UI |
| Next.js | Frontend + API routes | Web |
Reference repos
Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.
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