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Show HN: I Made Personalized AI Book Generator for Your Audience's Interests

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This is my first ever SaaS so please tell me improvements. What you do and don't like. Thank you :)

If it’s a serious business idea you might want to address the elephant in the room… who actually wants to spend their time reading a book written entirely by AI? … which will end up having factual inaccuracies and a very bland writing style.

Or more to the point, what use cases would there be for such a tool that don’t involve tricking users into reading a book they didn’t know was AI generated?

It isn't something i'm going to expand upon in the future. It was supposed to be a nice side project so I could ease myself into the world of SaaS. I'm glad I've made a decent amount of pocket money to buy myself some subscriptions to make something that holds more value.

A lot of the people who have bought the ebooks have generated them for educational reasons. yes their are inaccuracies but it's still informs them in a digestible way

Thank you for the feedback :)

I don't like bullshit and this is a bullshit generator.

Thank you; I appreciate the generosity

I'm giving it to you straight. Feel proud if you like about the SaaS aspect or that you built something. That's fair. But don't fool yourself that this "product" does anything actually useful.

I read a couple of the example ebooks and I also got a few previews on topics I am familiar with and unsurprisingly it's inane, generic, regurgitated crap. There is no learning to be found. Certainly not "efficient, thorough learning" as you claim.

The "Drug Legalization and Harm Reduction" example is exactly the type of topic that requires citations along with data including tables and charts to illustrate the points being made. The Space Exploration example jumps around wildly, going from 1969 to 1990 as if nothing happened in between, and places "The Race to the Moon" in the "current technologies" section which makes zero sense. It then becomes incoherent fantasy in the "future technologies" section. The Ethics and AI example makes numerous claims about the things that AI can do that seem to hit a wall with the simple question "How?". Each of these reads like a bad essay that would struggle to get a passing grade were it written for a class.

This has no value for learning. In my opinion you are doing a disservice to knowledge and learning with this.

Thanks for the effort you put into that. In an earlier reply i did state that i am easing myself into SaaS. It was just a cool idea that i thought id give my hand at.

Appreciate the time you put into it though :)

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