This is an AI chatbot that answers questions about the hit podcast, The Omnibus Project, by Ken Jennings and John Roderick. It is built using Fixie, a platform for building AI-powered agents.
Check out the live version of Omnibot at https://omnibot.cc.
This repository only holds the web front-end for Omnibot. The Fixie Agent code (which does most of the interesting AI stuff) can be found here: https://github.com/fixie-ai/fixie-examples/tree/main/agents/omnibusproject.
This app is designed to run on Netlify. It should be possible to run it on other hosting platforms as well, however, there are a few Netlify-specific things here.
Omnibot is a standard React app, using NextUI for the UI components. In order to query the Fixie agent from this web app, we rely on a Netlify Function, which is a serverless function that runs on Netlify's servers. This function acts as a proxy to Fixie, allowing the web app to make unauthenticated requests to Fixie, while the Netlify function holds the auth credentials to talk to the Fixie agent.
To run the app locally, you first need to create a Netlify account. You can then install the Netlify CLI with:
$ npm install -g netlify-cli
You can then link this directory to your Netlify project with:
$ netlify link
You will need to configure your Netlify project with an environment variable called
FIXIE_API_KEY that contains the API key for your Fixie account. You can obtain this by
creating an account at https://fixie.ai. Your Fixie API key will be found on your user
profile page there. This is used by the Netlify function, as described above, to access
the Fixie API.
You can run the app with:
$ netlify dev --live
You can deploy the app to Netlify with:
$ netlify deploy