AI Chatbot Starter 🤖

A simple AI chatbot built with Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, and the OpenAI API. This project also serves as a reusable starter template for future AI apps.

✨ Features

• Chat interface with user & assistant messages
• Uses gpt-4o-mini via OpenAI's Chat Completions API
• Clean, minimal UI
• Easy to reuse as a base for other AI projects

🧩 Tech Stack

• Framework: Next.js (App Router, TypeScript)
• Styling: Tailwind CSS
• AI: OpenAI Node SDK (openai)
• Deployment: Vercel (recommended, but can run anywhere with Node.js)

🔑 Environment Variables

Create a .env.local file in the project root:

OPENAI_API_KEY=your_openai_api_key_here