AI "Explain Like I'm 5" Content Simplifier
Inspiration: Articles written by experts (doctors, scientists, programmers) are incomprehensible to ordinary people. "Curse of knowledge" is widespread. The need to simplify complex content has always existed.
Target Customers: Scientists, researchers, technical blog authors, financial analysts, any experts who need to communicate complex ideas to non-professionals.
Pain Points:
- Difficulty "Dumbing Down": Hard to explain familiar complex concepts in simple language.
- Losing Readers: Articles or reports lose audience due to being too obscure, greatly reducing communication effectiveness.
- Time-consuming: Rewriting and simplifying content requires significant effort.
Solution (Micro-SaaS): A one-click content simplification tool. Users paste technical or jargon-heavy text, select target audience understanding level (like "5-year-old," "high school student," "college student"), AI rewrites it into one or more easy-to-understand versions.
MVP Core Features:
- Text Paste Area: Users input text needing simplification.
- Audience Level Selection: Provide several preset simplification levels.
- One-Click Simplification: AI generates simplified text.
- Side-by-Side Comparison: Display original and simplified versions side-by-side for easy comparison.
- Key Term Explanation: (Advanced feature) Automatically identify key terms in original text and generate simple glossary.
Development Investment (Technical Implementation): Extremely Low. Pure LLM application, perfect weekend project.
- LLM API Calls:
- Core Engine: GPT-4 Turbo or Claude 3 Opus/Sonnet. Prompt design very straightforward:
"Act as an expert science communicator. Rewrite the following text to be easily understood by a high school student. Explain any jargon using simple analogies. Text: [user's text]"
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- Core Engine: GPT-4 Turbo or Claude 3 Opus/Sonnet. Prompt design very straightforward:
- Hugging Face Open Source Models:
meta-llama/Llama-3-8B-Instruct
completely capable of this task.