Hey Dev.to community! 👋 Today, we’re excited to share TailoredRead—an AI-powered platform that creates personalized nonfiction books designed to fit each your unique learning needs.
The Problem
Traditional books are generally one-size-fits-all, which can mean they’re either too basic, too advanced, or filled with information that doesn’t meet specific learning goals. TailoredRead aims to solve this by delivering custom books that adapt to the reader’s background, skill level, and learning objectives, providing a more efficient and focused learning experience.
What is TailoredRead?
TailoredRead is a platform that leverages AI to generate nonfiction books tailored to each of your specific needs. You can simply input your subject of interest, level of expertise, and goals, and TailoredRead generates a book that focuses on the most relevant content. This means you can save time, skip unnecessary sections, and dive straight into what matters the most.
How It Works
- You answer a few questions: subject, key topics, background, and goals. We use AI to suggest relevant sub-topics and goals for your book, but you can also input them manually.
- You choose a book length and get a preview of the book outline and price. The AI generates the book outline, including title, subtitle, chapters, subchapter, content to cover, and more. The book’s price depends on the book's length and complexity but is often between $2-20 per book, equivalent of a regular ebook.
- You purchase the book through Stripe.
- Our backend kicks off a worker who creates a book for you in the background. This typically takes 5-10 minutes, and you can start reading the book as it’s created.
- We use Claude 3.5 Sonnet to generate the chapters, and parallelize some of that.
- We also have a special worker to create the book branding and cover.
- You can read your book through our Online Reader. Once the book is generated, you can download it as a PDF for desktop/tablet/mobile, and send it to your Kindle device.
Tech Stack
- Next.js with TypeScript
- Deployed on Vercel
- Workers deployed on Render
- shadcn UI as a component library
- Tailwind CSS for styling
- Anthropic and OpenAI for AI
- PostgreSQL as a database with pg-boss for orchestration
- Zod and React Hook form for form validation
- NextAuth for authentication
- Stripe for payments
Key Features
- Personalized Content: Books are customized based on your background, goals, and interests.
- Wide Range of Topics: TailoredRead books can cover almost everything - from development and AI, to science and engineering, to business and hobbies.
- Flexible Reading Options: you can read online, download as PDF, or send to Kindle.
Who’s It For?
TailoredRead is ideal for:
- Developers mastering new frameworks or diving into DevOps
- Tech Leaders combining tech and leadership insights
- Researchers exploring deep science and cross-field concepts
- Students needing focused support on course topics
- Lifelong Learners exploring new topics without the extra fluff
- Everyone curious about anything from chess to travel guides
Future Plans
As the product is growing, we plan to add more dynamic elements to books. Right now it does include things like code examples, but we want to add illustrations, charts, and more.
In addition, we want to improve our online reader, in a way that would let you create highlights and annotations within the book, just like with a Kindle book.
Try It Out
If you’re curious about learning faster with personalized, AI-crafted books, check out TailoredRead.com.
We offer a limited time promo for our official launch. Use the code LAUNCH50 at checkout to get 50% off of any book you purchase.
We’d love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
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