An oral-history archive from Lomé disguised as a cassette deck: tune the FM dial, spin the reels, and play family stories stored in Sanity.
In Lomé, Togo, family history travels by voice before it travels by page. K7 Mémoire — built for the Sanity Challenge's "vibe-code something strange" track — takes that truth literally: it is an oral archive where Sanity documents become cassette tapes you tune, filter by mood, and play on a lovingly rendered deck, complete with FM dial, spinning reels, VU meters, a rolling transcript, and a kente stripe across the top.
The craft goes deeper than the chrome. Stories are "bandes," narrators are "voix," and a single GROQ query string is the contract between the Sanity Studio editors and the deck — the on-screen service manual even prints the query so the machine explains how it listens. The author kept a PROMPT_LOG.md journal of the whole build: scaffolding with create-next-app, demo mode when Sanity credentials were missing, a Turbopack build that choked on swr until it was aliased. That honesty about what broke is presented as part of the submission, not hidden behind it.
The copy is French, Lomé-flavored — "Le fromager de grand-père," "La radio sous le manguier" — and the whole thing runs live on Vercel with seeded stories you can play right now. Strange does not mean unserious: as the author puts it, a cassette deck is a joke until it is how your aunt's voice finds the next generation.
Note: This project is curated by the VibeFix editors from public sources. All rights belong to the original creator.