42 Maxims
Rules for life humanity keeps rediscovering, all sourced
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42 Maxims ranks life advice by how many independent traditions arrived at it, from the Bible and the Buddha to the Stoics, Confucius, Yoruba proverbs and the Tirukkural. Every quote is linked to a real source and labelled verified, probable or disputed. Open data, free, no sign-up.
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PH · launched Oct 24, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- B2C
- Not AI
- Health & Fitness
- Productivity
- Education
- GitHub
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Partial The site itself is a simple searchable database, but the value lies in a curated, source-verified corpus across many traditions, which needs scholarly research labor to build and verify.
What it would actually take: The app is a basic static or database-backed site with ranking by tradition count and open data export. The hard part is the curation: someone with expertise in religious and philosophical texts across languages needs to find primary sources, verify attributions, and label confidence levels, which is slow expert work that can't be generated.
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Launched 121 days after the earliest competitor.
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