HOUSE OF WISDOM

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  Learn with William Jones — each scholar has a unique color, voice, and teaching style

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  Subject selection — scholars adapt their teaching to the chosen topic and grade level

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  Student dashboard — daily lesson plan generated across 6 subjects and 12 grade levels

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  Age and grade onboarding — curriculum adapts automatically from Grade 1 to Grade 12

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  Secure login with Google — parent and teacher accounts with child management

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  Kids classroom — warm Socratic opening, scholar asks questions before giving any answers

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  Custom topic exploration — students choose what to investigate, scholar adapts in real time

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  Discovery learning — students reflect before the meaning is revealed

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  Word-by-word Quran comprehension with Maududi tafsir

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  Quran memorization — SM-2 spaced repetition tracks which ayahs need review

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  27 scholar personas — from Socrates and Ibn Sina to Mirza Ghalib and Maududi

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  Homepage — manuscript aesthetic inspired by the original Bayt al-Hikma of Baghdad

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  Bilingual scholar conversation — Urdu mode with Nastaliq rendering

Inspiration

Every child deserves access to the world's greatest teachers. A child in Karachi or Mississauga shouldn't learn differently than one in Manhattan. The original Bayt al-Hikma in Baghdad welcomed scholars of every faith and language — we built a digital version of that.

What it does

House of Wisdom is an AI-powered K-12 learning platform where students learn directly from 27 historical scholar personas — Socrates, Ibn Sina, Hypatia, Aryabhata, Shakespeare, Mirza Ghalib, Maududi, and more. Each scholar teaches through Socratic dialogue, never giving answers directly but guiding students to discover them. The platform features 12,960 structured lessons across 6 subjects and 12 grade levels, bilingual English/Urdu support with Nastaliq rendering, a Classroom Mode with grade-adaptive UI and checkpoint questions, a Quran learning section with SM-2 spaced repetition and word-by-word tafsir, and a parent dashboard. Built in 15 days, solo, using Gemini API.

How we built it

Next.js 15, Gemini API (gemini-2.0-flash), Supabase, Vercel, Prisma, Tailwind CSS. Each scholar has a hand-crafted persona with opening rituals, emotional mirroring, session memory, and subject boundaries. The curriculum generates 12,960 lessons deterministically by grade, subject, week, and day. Bilingual support uses a ref mirror pattern to enforce language consistency across all Gemini calls. Google TTS powers scholar voices in both English and Urdu (Wavenet).

Challenges we ran into

Rendering Nastaliq Urdu RTL correctly in a Next.js app. Keeping 27 distinct scholar voices consistent without hallucination. Building grade-adaptive UI — Grade 1 is colorful and large, Grade 10 is refined scholarly — in a single codebase. Shipping a production-ready bilingual platform with real users in 15 days solo.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Real users. Donation-based revenue via Stripe. 27 scholar personas. 12,960 structured lessons. Bilingual EN/UR with Nastaliq. Quran memorization with SM-2 spaced repetition. A 5-step Discovery learning flow for Quran comprehension. Built solo in 15 days.

What we learned

Gemini's instruction-following is strong enough to hold complex personas across long sessions. Cultural authenticity matters — parents notice when an AI gets it right. Bilingual support is not just translation; it requires separate voice maps, RTL layout logic, and language enforcement at the API level.

What's next for HOUSE OF WISDOM

Launch in GTA schools Q4 2026. Build toward Karachi with offline-first support for low-bandwidth environments. Open API for teachers to create custom scholar personas. Arabic recitation review with tajweed feedback. Hindi and Mandarin support to reach 500M+ more students.

Built With

• gemini-api
• google-tts
• next.js
• prisma
• supabase
• tailwind-css
• typescript
• vercel