I Let Toy Story Characters Give Real Life Advice Using Gemini. Here's What Broke (And What Surprised Me)

This is a submission for the Built with Google Gemini: Writing Challenge There's a moment in every hackathon where your idea either becomes embarrassing or brilliant, and you don't find out which until 3am. Ours was: What if Woody, Buzz, and Mr. Potato Head gave you actual life advice, powered by Gemini AI? That became Yap & Yap . Here's the story. What I Built with Google Gemini Yap & Yap is an interactive advice platform where nine iconic Toy Story characters respond to your real questions, each one in their own voice, with their own personality, powered by Google Gemini. You type a question (anything from "should I quit my job?" to "how do I tell my roommate their cooking smells" ), select which characters you want to hear from, and get back nine wildly different takes: 🤠 Woody — loyal, morally grounded, slightly too sincere 🚀 Buzz — heroic, overconfident, solutions that involve space 🦖 Rex — spirals into the worst-case scenario immediately 🥔 Mr. Potato Head — zero filter, will tell