
We built a traffic simulator for Cork in two months
How six CS students at UCC shipped a web-based urban traffic simulator in two months - the stack, the war stories, and the architectural decisions.

How six CS students at UCC shipped a web-based urban traffic simulator in two months - the stack, the war stories, and the architectural decisions.

Everyone’s heard of SaaS — Software as a Service. But have you heard of PaaS. And no, we’re not talking about Platform as a Service — that’s so 2020. We’re talking about Prompt as a Service. Got a problem you wanted to solve, but AI already did 90% of the job for you? Build a PaaS. Wrap your single ChatGPT prompt in a half-decent UI — obviously vibe-coded in React — and watch the clicks and downloads flood your landing page....