# AskSweden.com
> AI-powered guide to everything Sweden — restaurants, travel, culture, business, and more. Free 15-minute AI chat sessions with community knowledge base.

## Site Structure
- Home (/): AI chat interface — ask about Sweden, get instant answers powered by DeepSeek. Free 15-minute sessions with 20 requests/hour rate limit.
- Data Center (/data-center): Community-ranked articles generated from AI conversations. Browse by category (Swedish Kitchen, Restaurants, Business, Travel, Culture, Nature, Living, History, Health, Education). Sort by newest, top rated, or most discussed. Full-text search across all articles. Vote on articles (like/dislike).
- Privacy (/privacy): GDPR-compliant privacy policy. No personal data sold. Pseudonymized sessions.
- Contact (/contact): Reach the team at support@asksweden.com.
- Sitemap (/sitemap.xml): Dynamic XML sitemap with all pages and articles.
- RSS Feed (/rss.xml): Latest 50 articles as RSS 2.0 feed.

## API Endpoints (JSON)
- GET /api/articles?limit=N&offset=N&sort=top_rated|newest|most_discussed&category=NAME&search=TERM → { articles: [], total: N }
- GET /api/articles/:id → { id, title, summary, category, tags, likes, dislikes, score, created_at }
- POST /api/chat → Body: { messages: [{role, content}], session_id: str } → { reply: str }
- POST /api/publish → Body: { messages: [{role, content}], session_id: str } → { article_id, title, category, url }
- POST /api/articles/:id/vote → Body: { vote_type: "like"|"dislike" } → { likes, dislikes, score, user_vote }
- GET /api/articles/:id/vote → { user_vote: "like"|"dislike"|null }
- POST /api/votes/batch → Body: { article_ids: [N] } → { votes: { "articleId": "vote_type"|null } }

## Content Areas
- Swedish Kitchen: Traditional recipes, fika culture, Swedish cuisine (köttbullar, gravlax, smörgåsbord, kanelbullar)
- Restaurants: Best restaurants in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö. Budget, fine dining, vegetarian, food tours
- Business: Startups, Spotify, Klarna, IKEA, Volvo, Ericsson, Northvolt, Swedish business culture, work-life balance
- Travel: Northern lights, midnight sun, archipelago, Abisko, Gotland, Öland, Kungsleden, city guides
- Culture: Midsommar, Lucia, crayfish parties, Swedish design, ABBA, Nobel Prize, Vikings, Jantelagen
- Nature: Sarek National Park, Lapland, Swedish forests, lakes, wildlife, winter survival, outdoor activities
- Living: Moving to Sweden, personnummer, BankID, Skatteverket, SFI, housing, healthcare, parental leave
- History: Swedish Empire, neutrality in WWII, social democracy, royal family, historical sites
- Health: Swedish healthcare system (Vård), wellness, work-life balance, 6-hour workday experiments
- Education: Swedish universities, student life, SFI (Swedish for Immigrants), international schools

## Tech Stack
- Frontend: Static HTML/CSS/JS, Stripe-inspired design with Swedish palette (#006AA7, #FECC02)
- Backend: PHP 8+ with MySQL (designed for Hostinger shared hosting)
- AI: DeepSeek API (deepseek-chat model) for chat and article generation
- Hosting: Hostinger shared hosting (LiteSpeed/Apache, PHP, MySQL)
- Security: Rate limiting, session hashing, .htaccess protection, CORS headers
- SEO: Dynamic sitemap, RSS feed, JSON-LD structured data, Open Graph, Twitter Cards, canonical URLs