What is it?
This was an R&D side project into AI APIs. At the time I had quite a few holidays and found myself constantly updating my out of office. So I built a tool that generates it for you. Fill in the reason for your out of office, dates are optional, pick a tone, and it generates a message ranging from professional to outright ridiculous.
The whole tool is wrapped in a Windows XP skin. A metaphor for the burnt out office worker of the early 2000s.
How it works
Built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. When you submit the form it fires a request to Claude's API with your inputs and a prompt that shapes the tone. Claude then returns the generated message.
Each request costs roughly 1–3p which is cheap enough that the ongoing running price wasn't really a concern.