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Yes, the illustrations are AI-generated. We generate the book, lay it out for print, and print/ship the physical copy. Fair point though - "we illustrate" could be clearer.

https://www.storystarling.com - create a non-fiction children's book explaining your super-niche-geek topic to your kid. Pick any topic, your kid becomes the little explorer, we il…

I'm working on StoryStarling ( https://www.storystarling.com ). You describe an idea for a children's book, optionally upload photos of your kid or pet to put inside, pick a style,…

StoryStarling. You describe a story idea and it generates a fully illustrated children's book, then we print and ship it. Not templates with names swapped in. Every story and illus…

Appreciate the honesty. On bilingual - that's actually our strongest use case already. A surprising number of our orders are from multilingual families who simply can't find childr…

This matches our experience. For a 28-page children's book there's no context collapse - the entire story fits comfortably in context. The format actually plays to LLMs' strengths:…

Fair perspective. But the parent isn't passive here — they're the creative director. They decide what the story is about, who the hero is, what happens. The AI does a lot of the wr…

Honestly, for children's books specifically - yes. A children's book is 28 pages, simple language, short sentences, clear emotional arc. That's a very different challenge than writ…

That's a fair point about friction, but we're intentionally focused on physical books - the whole idea is to get away from screens. Most parents we talk to have the opposite proble…

yes - we do combine those both and you can upload photos to get your kids into the book.

Thanks for the blunt feedback - genuinely appreciate it. You're right that children's books can be excellent, and for generic topics a well-reviewed book from a skilled author and …

Similar experience. I posted a Show HN two days ago for a children's book generator - type a story idea, get a fully illustrated printed book shipped to you. Offered a free printed…

Hi from Germany! Thanks for the feedback. You're right - the showcase sorting prioritizes "Real Books" (from customers who opted in to share theirs) over "Inspiration" (demo books …

Hi HN, I built StoryStarling. You describe a story idea and it generates a complete illustrated children's book, then prints and ships it. Every story, character, and illustration …

yes, i had the same experience. As good as LLMs are now at coding - it seems they are still far away from being useful in vision dominated engineering tasks like CAD/design. I gues…

Nice work! We create personalized children's books - parents share their idea and photos, and AI brings their custom story to life with their child as the protagonist. We do hybrid…

The story synopsis next to the preview gives you the full narrative arc before you commit. But fair point on wanting to see more. You can edit or regenerate pages if something isn'…

Character consistency was the hardest problem, and honestly what took the longest to get right. We use reference images as style anchors, run multiple generation passes, and have a…

RTL = Right-to-Left languages - Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi, Urdu. The text rendering and page layout needs to flip for these, and it gets especially tricky with bilingual books where on…

StoryStarling - Turn your story idea into a printed children's book https://storystarling.com Working on a platform where you describe a story concept and it becomes a real, illust…

Not AI. Anyway, the real issue is permissiveness vs strict parsing—real-world files are messy.

Raw CUDA works for the heavy lifting but I suspect it gets messy once you implement things like grammar constraints or beam search. You end up with complex state machines during in…

I suspect it is actually about maintaining permissiveness for malformed inputs rather than keeping security bugs. I ran into this building ingestion for a print-on-demand service w…

The WASM constraints make sense given the resource limits, especially for mobile. If you are moving that compute server-side though I am curious about the unit economics. LaTeX pip…