Building AI Reading Club: Features & Behind the Scenes

Eugene Yan · 1 year ago

A developer built AI Reading Club, a web application featuring Dewey, an AI reading companion that helps users understand books through context-aware queries, quizzes, summaries, and character lookups. The app was developed using Next.js, Supabase, and API providers like Gemini Flash, with the UI created through iterative collaboration with Claude and v0.dev, and deployed on Railway. The tool aims to keep readers in flow by providing assistance without requiring them to reread sections or search the web.