DAYBACK: Yesterday Is Not Finished

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

What I Built

Some moments are too important to live only in memory. The night a country won a World Cup, the hours after a result nobody expected. People remember how those moments felt, but the voices, headlines and videos that surrounded them are scattered across the web.

DAYBACK takes one sentence and turns it into an entire remembered experience. You type a moment, for example "Argentina wins the 2022 FIFA World Cup", and DAYBACK:

Works out what the event actually was (date, place, people involved).

Plans a spread of searches across the four phases of any historical moment: the anticipation, the moment, the aftermath and the legacy.

Gathers real, source-linked artefacts: YouTube films, news coverage and web pages.

Listens separately to public conversation on Reddit and X and curates a small set of human voices.

Lays the four most prominent memories on a digital…