Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 6:50 PM UTC

Hey HN!

I used to spend hours drawing all kind of things as a kid. Sadly though, those drawings are long gone.

Inspired by this, I created DoodleDreams. A webapp that brings drawings to life using AI and stores them as memories. You can always look back at the drawings, see who made them, and even know the age they were drawn at.

I thought it was a fun way to preserve those memories. What do you think?

Viktor

Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
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Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 6:54 PM UTC

Hi, Viktor here!

I made this as I believe it would have made me very excited to see my drawings come alive when I was a kid.

I hope someone can get the same joy out of it as I would have at that age!

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by maalber » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 8:30 PM UTC

Hey Viktor, looks cool! It looks like it uses some image-to-video generation model. I would be interested to know which one you used, how you selected it, and whether you did some training/fine-tuning yourself in the process.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by eGQjxkKF6fif » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:15 PM UTC

This is truly amazing. Is there a 'How it Works' a 'Potentials' section?

I work with things that push to inspire creativity and learning to foster the passion behind creativity and authentic works where otherwise we'd see how 'AI copies our work' and now we can see how AI can bring works to life and make them more fun.

Over-all would you like to see schools adopting your project? I didn't see a contact form but would love to be able to reach out and get more insight. I think this is absolutely wonderful.

While I know tokens and generative AI have costs, I can see the business model.

Since you've made it a web app have you explored the possibility of making it cross platform with something like Cordova? https://cordova.apache.org/

Perhaps setting up a bluesky social and documenting the thought process as you build on would be amazing, I'd love to see more; but would definitely like to be able to reach out in the future. Definitely bookmarked!

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by j_french » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:31 PM UTC

Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by dm03514 » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:34 PM UTC

This looks really interesting, I instantly found a drawing of my kids to upload because I thought he would love it, but I was unable to even try it once without paying.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

j_french wrote: post #5

Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation

Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but it should still be visible under "History"

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:39 PM UTC

dm03514 wrote: post #6

This looks really interesting, I instantly found a drawing of my kids to upload because I thought he would love it, but I was unable to even try it once without paying.

Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but it should still be visible under "History"

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by scubakid » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:44 PM UTC

vikmex wrote: post #7

j_french wrote: post #5

Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be available when you create an account disappears when you try to create an animation

Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but it should still be visible under "History"

Always a good idea to test full onboarding + purchase flow before posting.

Re: Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life

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Post by vikmex » Fri, Dec 27, 2024, 9:44 PM UTC

eGQjxkKF6fif wrote: post #4

This is truly amazing. Is there a 'How it Works' a 'Potentials' section? I work with things that push to inspire creativity and learning to foster the passion behind creativity and authentic works where otherwise we'd see how 'AI copies our work' and now we can see how AI can bring works to life and make them more fun. Over-all would you like to see schools adopting your project? I didn't see a contact form but would…

Hi! Thanks for your kind words!

There's a short "How it works" section, but could possibly be more detailed. No "potentials" section currently.

Yes, exactly! Sure, schools are welcome to adopt the project. Sorry, added contact details to the page now! Feel free to send an email to: hello@doodledreams.cc

I have not looked into Cordova, will take a look at that now.

Thanks for your feedback!