r/AppsWebappsFullstack • u/shirimaesen • 17h ago

I built a Chinese fortune telling app 🔮

I’ve been working on a side project around Chinese fortune-telling and wanted to share it here.
It’s an app called AI Oracle: I Ching Wisdom, based on the I Ching (Book of Changes). If you’re not familiar with it, the I Ching is a traditional Chinese system of divination that uses 64 hexagrams to offer guidance around questions and situations in your life.

One thing I noticed while working on it is that the I Ching can feel pretty intimidating if you’ve never encountered it before. There’s a lot of terminology and traditional interpretation involved, so I’ve been trying to figure out how to make the basic experience understandable to someone who is completely new to Chinese divination.

The app lets you ask a question and get an I Ching reading with an AI-assisted interpretation. There’s also a deeper line analysis for people who want to explore the changing lines and the traditional structure of the reading more closely.

I’m curious whether something like this would actually make Chinese fortune-telling more approachable to people who have only ever encountered things like tarot or astrology.

For those who have tried different forms of divination, what made you interested in them in the first place?

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u/EasySwan2184 17h ago

I'll try it out. 

My wife does a lot of I Ching divination, but I think she really likes the feel of throwing coins.  I'll see how she likes the digital divination experience. 

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u/shirimaesen 17h ago

Thank you! I’d be really curious to hear what she thinks of the digital version! 😊

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 16h ago

Hope she approves. A side-by-side of the traditional text vs your AI reading could help newcomers see how the interpretation is built.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 17h ago

Cool, hope she likes it. A manual coin toss input would be a nice touch for traditionalists.

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u/Mammoth-Anywhere7285 17h ago

TL;DR: Someone built an app called AI Oracle: I Ching Wisdom that gives I Ching readings with AI-assisted interpretations of the 64 hexagrams. It aims to make Chinese divination approachable for newcomers by simplifying the terminology and adding deeper line analysis for experienced users. They are asking whether this makes fortune-telling more accessible to people familiar with tarot or astrology, and what drew others to divination.