I'm a solo founder who built this over the past year. The idea started from a simple frustration: reading Nietzsche is hard, but what if you could just ask him directly?

Logarete lets you set up debates between historical thinkers – Nietzsche vs Dostoevsky on God, Aristotle vs Marx on wealth and democracy, Plato vs Confucius on the good society. Each persona is powered by RAG over their actual writings, so responses stay grounded in what they really wrote.

The interesting technical challenge was making multi-persona debates work. When two AI personas argue, they tend to converge or repeat. I spent months tuning the system so each thinker maintains their distinct philosophical position and constructs original thought experiments.

Stack: React, Google Cloud (Vertex AI Search for RAG, Cloud Run, Firebase), Gemini models.

Would love feedback, especially on debate quality. Try setting up a debate on any topic – the results often surprise me.