You might wonder why I’ve gone silent. I haven’t shared any of my “super cool” (
) projects here in a while. You may have heard a rumbling in the distance, and seen mysterious colorful wisps of smoke coming out of the BestCodes factory.
Okay, probably not… this isn’t my blog, but I felt like a little creative writing for a second 
Drama aside, I have actually been working on a very large project. I’ve been using my favorite framework (Next.js 
) with the Vercel AI SDK to create something unheard of… except I already told you what it is in the topic title, so “unheard of” is probably a bit dramatic…
Anyway, if you don’t know what “Deep Research” is, it’s basically any AI that can search the web and browse sites. The largest original AI project related to this was by Google, but the one everyone thinks of now is the one by OpenAI — to be fair, it’s pretty good, but did they have to straight up steal the name from Google? 
Of course, there is a little personal problem between me and OpenAI Deep Research… I don’t feel like paying $200 a month for it! 
So, of course, I set out to create an app that can do the same things as OpenAI Deep Research for less cost. In fact, using everyone’s favorite cheap model, Gemini 2.0 Flash, my Deep Research Clone is free.
Right now, I’m being unnecessarily secretive about the clone’s details (because I like being secretive, as you can tell by my very descriptive username 
), so I won’t be telling you it’s name or anything yet. But I will answer most questions you have about it, I would love feedback, and I will put some screenshots below!
Dark mode:
Light mode:
Retro Dark Mode:
There are also dim and retro-light themes, but I don’t want to put an excessive amount of images in one post, so I won’t show them here (unless you ask to see them…).
As far as my experience with the AI SDK, it’s been awesome so far. I can’t wait to build with it more!
Let me know what y’all think!
