I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.
Details
- External ID
- 46925131
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I'm 15 and built a free tool for reading ancient texts.
- Website domain
- netlify.app
- Launched
- Feb. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393530997304582
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- typography and unicode text tools
- Vertical
- Education
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- tool for reading ancient texts
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The app is a standard web application hosting public domain/curriculum classical texts with dictionary lookups and LLM-powered feedback on student translations.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Perseus (existing translation/glossing resource), OpenAI (for LLM-based translation features)
Concerns raised: Part of speech display broken (showing numbers like 'POS 17' instead of actual labels), Translation/gloss missing for ~90% of words in import feature, Responsive design broken on smaller devices with misaligned buttons, LLM translations unreliable for ancient languages (Greek/Latin underrepresented), Poor quality outputs on complex passages despite being 'thoroughly analyzed'
Feature requests: Open source the code (GitHub/Codeberg repository), Expand lexicon/glossary coverage, Target Koine Greek market (religious studies/divinity courses) in addition to classical Greek, Sponsor relevant YouTube videos for marketing to Latin revival community
Competitors
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Attention rank: #31 of 54 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 95 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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