Evaluate product/idea: Platform that allows you to talk to historical figures (xantonai.com)

2 points by wheatstore 1y ago ↗ HN

Hey all, Xantonai is just a side project of mine that I did to become more familiar with web development. It essentially is just a ChatGPT right now, to be quite honest, as I am using the GPT-4o-mini API.

However, if it gets traction, I plan to add more features. I am currently a rising sophmore in high school and I wanted to work on this project because to me there isn't really that fun of a way to interactively engage with the people that I am learning about in school. So, my most intuitive course of action was to just use Chatgpt. I talked to some of my teachers and they were open to the idea but seemed hesitant about chatgpt.

My roadmap to acquire users is to email individual schools or teachers and ask them to test out Xanton as just a fun activity in class. The website is completely free forever which I thought would help incentivize them to join. I just want users not money.

Is there any way that I can improve on this platform and idea? Or is the whole idea just stupid? Give me your honest feedback. I won't get butthurt by it.

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conehose 1y ago ↗

I mean on the surface its a fun idea but to me isn't really solving the problem that you described. I guess it would just be a fun thing teachers or students occasionally use in their lessons but other than that I really don't see the usecase. But good job on the UI and other stuff.

starboardclear 1y ago ↗

I actually like it a lot. I think it has a decent use case and can be applied to outside of the classrooms aswell. The UI is clean and pretty good and the responses by the characters and surprisingly accurate and good.