r/roastmystartup • u/Sure-Replacement-322 • 5d ago

Made a little app that turns my niece's bedtime story ideas into actual illustrated picture books

so this might be useful to some of you. my cousin has two little ones (3 and 5) who want a new bedtime story every single night, and the parents were completely out of ideas. I'm a software developer, so I ended up building them a little app for it. the kids got kind of obsessed with it, so figured I'd share here in case it helps anyone else.

the way it works is you just tell it an idea. it can be whatever the kid comes up with, "a dinosaur who doesn't like vegetables," "a little girl who flies to the moon," anything. it writes the whole story, draws a picture for every page, and reads it out loud in a nice voice. you get the finished book in a few seconds.

the part the kids love most is putting themselves in it. my niece asks for stories where she's the main character and it'll use her name the whole way through, and she thinks that's the best thing ever.

and you can use it however you want. every page has the text and a picture, so you can read it to them yourself like a normal picture book, or on the nights you're completely wiped out you can just let the AI voice narrate it. that part's been really nice honestly.

you get a few credits when you sign up, so you can make a couple of books and see if your
kids like it before paying for anything. it's at storynest.app.space.

(and in case anyone's curious how it's made, I basically vibe-coded the whole thing myself in about a day with Claude Code and an SDK called DeepSpace. if you're at all techy and  have your own app idea kicking around, it's worth a look, kind of wild how fast you can get something real working now.)

happy to answer questions if anyone gives it a go. and if your kids make something funny with it I'd genuinely love to hear about it.

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u/soarling1 3d ago

We have some experiences in kids digital space. This unfortunately, feels more like a feature of a different product than a product in itself. I think the challenge is that with AI, generating a generic story isn't that hard anymore. Something a bit more is likely needed for this to succeed..

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u/Sure-Replacement-322 3d ago

Yeah. Just made it in a day, it was just a side project I did as a student. I am building other projects as well to try out different things.

texpal.app.space Resume.app.space Fluently.app.space

Check these out. These are also side projects I was doing using the deep space sdk. It’s just fun to build different things and experiment. And especially since I don’t have to handle auth, db, api keys, deployment etc, it’s even more fun.

But I agree. I am working on more major projects now.