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HN · launched Feb 7, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: ebook and reading apps · 190 launches, 18 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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
Other products that read as similar to this one : 79 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #42 of 80 (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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