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Show HN: TaleBot – AI-Generated Personalized Bedtime Stories for Kids

17 points| cagrisarigoz | 2 years ago |talebotai.com

Hello HN, I'm excited to share a project my co-founder and I have been working on - TaleBot.

What It Does: TaleBot creates a personalized bedtime story based on parent/caregiver's inputs. You can customize the theme, the challenges (kid-friendly obstacles) the characters face, and even the moral lesson it teaches. Once the story is ready, you'll receive a PDF file, and an AI narrated voiceover of it.

Try It Out: We've made it as barrier-free as possible for you to test. Use the promo code HNFREETALE on our story creation form, and you can get a story written for free, no sign-ups required.

Looking forward to your feedback. We value your thoughts and input on our product and idea.

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stratosgear|2 years ago

It's not clear that this needs money to try out... Lost all this time filling to form to end up on credit card payment screen....

cagrisarigoz|2 years ago

Sorry about that. I didn't want to add the coupon code to title of the post, it would be a clickbait. I hope you'd been able to get the story written for free. If you made a payment, please send your email to hellpo@talebotai.com and I'll initiate your refund.

I hope you were able to access the free story creation option. If you did make a payment by mistake, please send your email to hello@talebotai.com, and I'll promptly initiate your refund. Thank you for your feedback and understanding.

stratosgear|2 years ago

Unless you read the initial comment, that is. Not really very obvious on mobile... :(

nsesites|2 years ago

Yeah would want to know this upfront. Feels misleading.

jbotz|2 years ago

What could possibly go wrong?

wanderingmind|2 years ago

Nothing? Given the absolute batshit quality of most human written children books

jgalt212|2 years ago

Reminds of the time I read a children's version of the Romeo and Juliet to my kids. I had not read since 9th grade and forgot about the ending. oops.

pbronez|2 years ago

Great idea! I’ve used ChatGPT and Midjourney for exactly this with decent results. The kids enjoy the interaction with the robot storyteller, and I’m more comfortable facilitating than making something up out of whole cloth.

cagrisarigoz|2 years ago

Have you built a product? I'd love to take a look and provide feedback.

bitwize|2 years ago

The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is not that far away now...

digitcatphd|2 years ago

You should monetize this differently to get mass market appeal like commissions from print and shipping or show them in a popup and pay to download

cagrisarigoz|2 years ago

Thanks for your feedback. We're thinking of adding an affordable subscription model, such as $10/mo to be able to generate 30 stories in a month.

Print is also something we're also considering.

the_biot|2 years ago

This is utterly horrifying.

DANmode|2 years ago

Have you met any children's authors by chance?

akrymski|2 years ago

Does the PDF include illustrations generated by AI?

cagrisarigoz|2 years ago

Yes, currently we add one cover illustration. We're planning to add more illustrations to the PDF.