Principles Before Personalities
A free, offline reader for the 1939 Big Book
Details
- External ID
- 1261237
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Principles Before Personalities
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 26, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- Productivity, Privacy, Books
- Fetched at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 28, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
A reader for the public-domain first edition of the Big Book (1939 text with 1941 revisions), with meeting page numbers. Highlight, mark pages, add sticky notes, search. No account, nothing uploaded. Free for Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone (web app). Not affiliated with AA World Services.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Healthcare
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- offline reader app for the 1939 big book
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A static offline text reader with local storage for highlights and notes can be vibe-coded as a simple PWA or web app in a couple of days.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #15 of 44 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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