daily-motivation

Just me playing around with the Anthropic API. Every day it generates a motivational quote tied to something that happened in history on that date.

What it does

Hits the Anthropic API once a day (claude-haiku), asks it for a notable historical event and a relevant motivational quote, caches the result, and serves it through a simple terminal-styled web UI.

Stack

• Python / Flask — tiny backend, a couple of routes
• Anthropic API — the brains, using claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
• TinyDB — flat-file JSON cache so the API only gets called once per day
• Docker — containerised with gunicorn
• Nginx — reverse proxy for production

Running it

Copy .env.example to .env and fill in your values:

ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=your_key_from_console.anthropic.com
SITE_URL=https://motivation.yoursite.com
SITE_TITLE=Daily Motivation
SITE_DESC=A daily motivational quote tied to today in history.
DEFAULT_NAME=Kat  # your name — shows in the greeting

Then:

docker compose up -d --build

App runs on http://localhost:5000.

Deploying

On your server:

git clone git@github.com:katpadi/daily-motivation.git
cd daily-motivation
cp .env.example .env
nano .env
docker compose up -d --build

To update:

cd ~/daily-motivation
git pull
docker compose up -d --build

Nginx — copy nginx.conf to /etc/nginx/sites-available/, symlink it, reload:

sudo cp nginx.conf /etc/nginx/sites-available/daily-motivation
sudo ln -s /etc/nginx/sites-available/daily-motivation /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/
sudo nginx -t && sudo systemctl reload nginx

SSL:

sudo certbot --nginx -d motivation.yoursite.com

Endpoints

Endpoint	Description
GET /	Browser UI
GET /api/motivation	JSON response

Logs

docker compose logs -f