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7/12/2026
The original title is "I Taught an AI to Measure Passion — Then Pointed It at the World Cup"
Original: I Taught an AI to Measure Passion — Then Pointed It at the World Cup
Short summary
FanForge is an open-source passion-scoring engine that watches live events—starting with the 2026 FIFA World Cup—and scores moment intensity on a 0-100 scale using Google AI structured extraction. Built on the MERN stack with a pluggable architecture, it supports any fandom via plugins, generates spoken hype clips via ElevenLabs, and issues verifiable Passion Points badges on Solana devnet. The project includes a seeded dataset of 66 moments across 7 World Cup matches.
- •Passion-scoring engine rates live event moments 0-100 using Google AI structured extraction with heuristic fallback
- •Pluggable framework supports any fandom—World Cup matches, tech rivalries, or personal dev milestones
- •MERN stack with ElevenLabs audio, Solana devnet badges, and instant passion-ranked search across scored moments
Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.
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