Show HN: Create a Children's book with AI – with illustrations

[jaszczw]

Hey together with wife we took part in AssemblyAI hackathon and although we didn't win we felt good enough about our inital MVP that we took it a bit further.

You can describe your characters and give a title and however long/detailed description you want, the gpt-3 will generate a children's story from it, dall-e will generate images. Images are postprocessed with stable-diffusion custom model (for stylisation) and that's the final result.

It's still early as it was done in about 2 weeks, but I count on your feedback.

I am software engineer and did basically all of the engineering work myself.

Feel free to ask question regarding implementation plans, etc. cannot wait to learn what you think. I'll appriciate any feedback.

[solardev]

I went through the process and then hit the paywall... "you must pay first before you can generate the book."

Maybe show a short preview page/chapter for free, based on the real character and prompt? Hard to pay for something when you have no idea what you're getting, or the quality of it.

Other than that, the process was pretty straightforward and simple! Minor quibble: Maybe make the form fields clearer, like what they influence (is the title important?), and which are optional or vs required. The gender/age/hair color etc. had dark grey backgrounds for me and I wasn't sure what that meant.

[jaszczw]

Thanks again for the feedback - since your message I added a clear message first book for free and first you need to login with verified email to progress. Hope that makes it more user friendly :)

[jaszczw]

Hey thanks for the feedback! We were thinking about that, but as the generation is quite time consuming we had not started it before payment, will think about making the process better for customer.

At the bottom of landing page there are examples: https://www.childbook.ai/book/clbxjxxjp0000mq08xtavb4b9

If you still have the link, I've moved forward the book for you

[jaszczw]

I've just pushed a change where inputs are consistent - it was light vs dark scheme thing as I use light scheme.

Also I have added small info paragraph before title and description so it's more clear what it does.

[llagerlof]

Yeah, that sucks. And the devs asks for the e-mail BEFORE the paywall. It's not an honest attitude.

[jaszczw]

I've just added a first book for free on validating email. Hope that will help :) Thanks for all the feedback so far.

Also here is a link to youtube video of the app https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXuzWrOhBPk

[gardenhedge]

Awesome - I had a similar idea to create this product. Your execution looks great. Well done.

[jaszczw]

Thanks,there is already couple of similar products so a lot will depend on the proper priorities and speed of iterations.