An Idea Born from a Newsletter Email
One day in September 2025, I was browsing through newsletters in my inbox as usual. A particular section from Mindstream.news, an AI-focused newsletter, caught my attention:
One of our team, curious about how far it could stretch, prompted: “Can you turn this into some sort of interactive tool/summary where it’s kind of like building your own adventure but with the book summary?” The result was surprisingly engaging. Claude dropped them into the book’s setting with an introduction, then offered three branching choices - all events from the opening chapter.
The content was about using Claude to replace SparkNotes for classic literature learning. But what sparked in my mind was: “Choose Your Own Adventure-style interactive classic novels.”
This reminded me of “gamebooks” I read as a child—a genre where you navigate to different pages based on choices like “Go to page XX for option A.” I wanted to apply this content format to classic literature.
Let Me Build Something with AI Too
From the early days of ChatGPT until now, I’ve benefited greatly from various AI models in my work productivity. But while everyone else was vibe coding and creating AI-based content, I still hadn’t found that “something” I wanted to build. I was stuck in contemplation.
In this situation, the “interactive classic novel” content inspired by that newsletter felt like something I could actually build with AI’s help.
I immediately launched the Claude app, created a project called “Interactive Story Website for Classic Novels,” and explained the idea.
The artifact Claude generated in less than a minute was truly impressive. It seemed to read my mind, implementing exactly what I intended, and the design was so polished it could almost be used as-is.
With a POC (Proof of Concept) ready in one minute, I verified whether there would be copyright issues with using classic novels.
Fortunately, classic novels in the public domain have expired copyrights, meaning anyone can freely use them without legal issues. As a reference, Project Gutenberg shares over 75,000 classic literary works, so there’s no shortage of content.
Building in Public - Let’s Share the Journey
By chance or fate, on the very day I got this idea from the newsletter, I coincidentally came across a new book at an online bookstore titled “The Process is the Content.”
People are more curious about the shaky process than the perfect result.
I strongly resonated with the author Park Sun-oh’s words. Even though I haven’t produced any results yet, I decided to share the process step by step.
Originally, I planned a “100-day challenge” to post something daily, and even had Claude create a 100-day plan. But realistically, that seems too ambitious. Whether it takes 100 days or a year, my goal is to persist without giving up and produce results, even if I can’t post daily.
Let’s get started!