I was in a boring meeting so I made an encyclopedia
Details
- External ID
- 45823539
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I was in a boring meeting so I made an encyclopedia
- Website domain
- stavros.io
- Launched
- Nov. 5, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- searchable public records and archives
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- collaborative encyclopedia
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Creating a personal or topical encyclopedia web app during a meeting is a classic static site or basic CRUD/CMS project perfectly suited for prompt-driven development.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Possible World Wikis, Endless Wiki, Infinite Wiki Simulator
Concerns raised: LLM cost abuse from scrapers/bad actors without rate limits, AI generates false information and nonsensical content, Difficulty distinguishing real from fabricated information
Feature requests: Global rate limit for articles per day
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 70 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #69 of 71 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 2 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.