My Garden App Uses AI and Weather to Turn Daily Journal Entries Into Flowers

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A developer has built 'My Garden', a digital garden web app submitted for the DEV Community Weekend Challenge: Passion Edition. Each day, users write a short check-in about how they are feeling, and Google's Gemini AI selects a matching flower type and generates a reflective note in response. ElevenLabs text-to-speech then reads the note aloud using a voice and delivery style assigned to each flower type. The app also integrates real-time weather data via Open-Meteo to visually alter the garden scene, showing rain, snow, or wind based on the user's actual local conditions. Built as a single static HTML file with no backend, the app includes local fallbacks so it functions even without API keys.

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