Where to Put Your Hashtag Rotator File
🧠 No fallback logic · No phantom endpoints · Timestamp everything · Region-aware civic signals only · Audit the ghost projects · Track fertilizer scams · Empower public oversight
🧠 This guide is for civic builders who want their dashboard to actually work—not just look pretty.
“If you hide your civic signal in the wrong room, the public won’t hear it. The dashboard will fail. Period.”
🧠 Imagine Your GitHub Project Like a Farm
Your GitHub repository is like a farm shed. Inside, you’ve got different rooms for different tools:
- 🧰 /components → your toolbox for building things
- 🧪 /functions → your chemical cabinet for special tasks
- 📦 /src → your seed storage room
- 🛠️ /pages/api → your dispatch room—where you put things that need to be sent out to the public
✅ Where to Put the Hashtag Rotator
Think of the hashtag-rotator.js file as your radio broadcast script. It tells the world what civic hashtags are trending in Kenya, Nigeria, USA, etc.
To make sure the public can hear it, you must place it in the dispatch room:
/pages/api/hashtag-rotator.js This is the only place where GitHub + Vercel know to look when someone asks:
“Hey, what hashtags are trending in Kenya?”
If you put it in the wrong room—like /src, /components, or /functions—it’s like hiding your radio script in the seed room. Nobody will find it. The dashboard will say:
- ❌ Error loading hashtags
- ❌ Civic headline fetch failed
🧱 Visual Illustration
| GitHub Repo (Farm Shed) | Purpose |
|---|---|
| /components | Toolbox (for building UI) |
| /functions | Chemical cabinet (for special logic) |
| /src | Seed room (for raw code) |
| /pages/api | Dispatch room (for public-facing endpoints) |
| /pages/api/hashtag-rotator.js | ✅ This is where your civic signal belongs |
🧠 Summary for the Layman
- Your civic dashboard is like a radio that needs a signal
- That signal comes from a file called
hashtag-rotator.js - You must place it in the dispatch room:
/pages/api/ - If you hide it in the wrong room, the radio won’t work
🧠 No fallback logic. No phantom endpoints. Just civic truth, broadcast clean.
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