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]".
• Hugging Face Open Source Models:
  • meta-llama/Llama-3-8B-Instruct completely capable of this task.