I built a history podcast generator you can interrupt. Ask it any topic and start learning

History is something I'm quite passionate about and at work I have experience with software development and LLMs. So I thought how can I bring these things together and built something that I would actually use. This is the results of many months of hard work! You type any topic, moment or person. About a minute later, two hosts are telling you the story with artwork that follows along. You can interrupt mid-episode with a question; they answer and pick the story back up. They also remember what you've listened to in the past and can refer to it. At the end there's also a optional quiz to test what you learned! Quite a lot of emphasis was put into the research part. It searches the web and gathers notes on the topic, prioritizing reference-grade sources (encyclopedias, museums, archives, academic pages) over blogs and also searches in the language of the place or person, so a story about Japan or Peru isn’t told only from English sources. When the sources disagree, which in history is constantly, the hosts say so instead of quietly picking a side. Every episode links the pages it used and tags the subtitles. Under the hood it’s not one model. A single episode is about a dozen calls, each pinned to the model that won its bake-off: research, writing, artwork, voices, sources, quiz, etc... Finding the right balance between quality, speed and cost was where a lot of the work went. I would love some feedback both on the app and the content! You can try it here: historai.ca