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by techypicky·Mar 29, 2026·4 points·6 comments

AI Analysis

MidShip It

Yet another AI learning wrapper when Perplexity already does book discovery better.

Strengths
  • Grounding LLM responses in actual book content reduces hallucination risk.
  • Clean, focused UI with topic suggestions for quick exploration.
Weaknesses
  • No technical differentiation from asking ChatGPT to recommend and summarize books.
  • Replit app hosting suggests early prototype, not production-ready infrastructure.
Category
Target Audience

Self-directed learners, students, curious professionals

Similar To

Perplexity · ChatGPT · Goodreads

Post Description

I built a Replit app for something i constantly do with LLMs - I always ask Gemini about books on a certain topic, then ask the llm to give me a summary of the book its chapters - this helps me: 1. keep the llm grounded as a real expert (instead of saying pretend to be an engineering expert, give it a distributed systems book and then ask opinions on it) 2. helps me discover and buy books! Once i go through book concepts and chat with llm about it, i'm more convinced to buy it and dig deeper on low level on it

So i built an app through Replit on it, try it on

https://teach-me.replit.app/

Cheers!

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