Dev ships interruptible history podcast generator, 80% coded by Claude Code
Goldenchild123 · reddit · 2026-11-08
A software professional launched historai.ca: type any historical topic and within a minute two hosts narrate the story with matching artwork. You can interrupt mid-episode with questions, and episodes end with an optional quiz and a suggested next topic.
Product highlights
- Heavy emphasis on research: prioritizes encyclopedias, museums, archives, and academic pages, and searches in the topic's native language so stories about Germany or China aren't told only from English sources; every episode links its sources.
- An episode involves roughly a dozen model calls, each pinned to the winner of per-task bake-offs balancing quality, speed, and cost.
Development & model picks
- Claude Code wrote 80% of the code, frontend came from Claude Design; the author steers ideas and reviews.
- Bake-offs across GPT, Claude, and Gemini: Opus 4.8 was the clear best writer with honest handling of conflicting sources; oddly, Opus 5.5 produced more generic scripts; Gemini won on quality/speed/cost for smaller tasks.
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