alt Hacker NewsStoryStarling - Turn your story idea into a printed children's book
Working on a platform where you describe a story concept and it becomes a real, illustrated picture book - professionally printed and shipped to your door.
The key difference from "personalized" book companies: this isn't template stories with a name swapped in. You bring an idea - maybe a book about a kid with a cochlear implant going to their first day of school, or a bilingual German-Turkish story about visiting grandma's village - and it generates a complete original narrative with consistent illustrations throughout.
You can upload reference photos so characters actually look like your child. Supports 30+ languages including bilingual editions on the same page.
Currently refining the showcase features and adding RTL language support.
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What do you mean by RTL because all I can come up with is Verilog or VHDL and I'm certain that's not your meaning. I'll try it out. I have a children's book story I've been trying to image generate for 3 years now and it's not yet worked out. I think the primary reason it fails is that the scenery I request is lifelike yet extremely rare to actually see, although, I did see it, and that's what inspires the story.
This is really cool. I wish the example stories let me see the entire book and purchase them if I like them.
I’m skeptical about the stories being good quality so seeing the full stories might mitigate that.
I too was thinking about something like this a few months ago. There were couple of reasons I didn't pursue the idea. One, the image generation AI wasn't reliable enough. Like, I couldn't get it to generate 2 images where the characters looked consistent, let alone a book worth of images. Two, the margins were quite small, so didn't seem like a viable business.
Wondering if you've thought about such things and your perspective.