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p/storytime-aiGenerate custom stories for your kids — powered by ChatGPT!
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Nathan Chan

Storytime AI - Generate custom stories for your kids - powered by ChatGPT

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Generate unique stories, personalized to your kids' interests! Adjust settings like age, story length, or to name the main character — then write your own ideas for a story to generate (or use a randomized story theme)! Available in 10 languages!

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Nathan Chan
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Hey all! 👋 For months, my wife and I were manually and haphazardly using ChatGPT to generate bedtime stories for our 3-year-old daughter (mostly using her ideas as prompts), so I built this app to make bedtime a lot easier! It's a simple UI, perfect for a calming bedtime routine. Set your kid's age, story length, and optionally, the name and gender of the main character in the story — then write your own ideas for a story to generate (or use a randomized story theme). Storytime AI writes out a unique story, personalized to your kids' interests! It's currently able to generate stories in 10 different languages, and I'm planning to add more soon! I have hundreds of users already using the app, and many (including me and my wife) have been using it every night during bedtime — and most importantly, the kids absolutely love it. Give it a try, there's no signup required! I'm still working on features and improvements, but would love some feedback if you have any! Thanks a ton!
George Novik
@nathanwchan This sounds like a great app! How does it ensure age-appropriate stories for kids? Keep up the awesome work!
Frida
@nathanwchan My mom said when I was young, I used to throw tantrums to my mom because I didn't want to go to bed alone. If she had known about a tool like this back then, she would have loved it. This product is perfect for parents who need to take care of their children and make sure they sleep well at night!
Isha Varma
Such a cool idea! Congratulations on the launch! Maybe you can add animations to make it cooler.
Nathan Chan
Maker
@isha_varma07 thank you!!
Tony Fiston 🥑
I love the concept of Storytime AI! It would be great if it could also suggest discussion questions or activities based on the generated stories to help parents further engage with their children.
Nathan Chan
Maker
@yniijia thank you! Good idea, been thinking about this a lot — stay tuned!
Daniel McAleese
Super interested to see how this develops! My wife and I have been using ChatGPT for the same purpose with our daughter and were considering creating an app for it, just like this! I love it, looks great.
Nathan Chan
Maker
@macca895 thank you Daniel! Let me know how it goes with your daughter, would love to get some feedback!
Bertha Kgokong
This is such an interesting use case, I love the ChatGPT stories, I actually generate a few on a regular basis. All the best with the launch
Nathan Chan
Maker
@berthakgokong thank you!!
Nataliia Golda
I wish I had it when my children were youger ;) This is a great idea, congrats!
Nathan Chan
Maker
@nataliia_golda thank you!!!
Julie V
Awww it’s so amusing to see how different creators use AI for various purposes! Congrats on the Storytime AI launch⭐️
Nathan Chan
Maker
@julia_kh2 thank you!!
Naveed Rehman
generating stories was probably among the very first few things people tested. is this just another fancy clone or u got something to amaze us? congratulations on the launchn keep up the good work.
Nathan Chan
Maker
@naveed_rehman thanks! No cloning here :). Just built an app specifically for my wife and I to make our bedtimes easier — hopefully it helps other parents too!
Janine N
Oh man how cool is this? I will try this with my niece and nephews next time I go and visit them! Childrens' interests change so much when they are little and I find the best way to connect with them is pick up on the thing or topic they are obsessed with right now and go to town on that. My little nephew is 3 and LOVES diggers and tractors, so I bet he would really like a story about little Viktor travelling around the world in a tractor or whatever.. Are you planning to use AI generated images to accompany the story.. that would be next level. Such a good idea.. well done!!
Nathan Chan
Maker
@janine_nitz exactly! My daughter has different and unique requests every night, and now our bedtime stories have a way to keep up with her! No current plan to add images — I felt like the quality of DALL-E, Midjourney and others were just not good enough to accompany the text. I also didn’t feel like it was needed during our bedtime, personally. My wife and I prefer that we just read the story to her and not have her looking at our device while reading. It’s helped with the calming bedtime routine! Thanks for the support! Let me know how the nieces and nephews like it!!
Kwaku Amprako
Very unique and clear utility. Congratulations on the launch!
Nathan Chan
Maker
@kwaku_amprako thank you, definitely tried to keep it simple!
Alexander Karbankov
Very curions and simply awesome! Congrats and upvoted 🔥 The only question is when will the text-to-speech option be released? 🙂
Nathan Chan
Maker
@trueslash thank you!! I’m exploring the quality of some text-to-speech options right now, so stay tuned! :)
George Novik
Wow, Storytime AI sounds like an amazing tool for parents to create personalized stories for their kids. Love that it offers customization options like age and character name. And 10 languages? Impressive!
Nathan Chan
Maker
@jorexnovik thank you!! ChatGPT helped a lot with the localization (very meta) 😀
Ishan Khattar
Congrats!! does it have a voice out put for the story? Like can you change between voices to make the experience more enjoyable for the kids.
Nathan Chan
Maker
@ishan_khattar I’m currently looking into options for text-to-speech but need to make sure the quality of the narration is good before I ship it! (Don’t want robotic Siri-like voice) Stay tuned!
Alexey
Congratulations on the launch! is there an option to save/export the story?
Nathan Chan
Maker
@alexey_yar thank you! It’s on my to do list!
Richard Gao
Love that it can do other languages too! A lot of these don't Do you have plans for image generation? Seems to be more engaging for kids Would have to have evoke-app.com to make a backend for this
Nathan Chan
Maker
@richard_gao2 thank you! No plans for images atm! Text-only has been valuable enough and it keeps the kids off the device - good for bedtime.
Edward Dan
This is a very interesting way to use Chat GPT for engaging with kids. Will you be working on an AI powered childcare solution next? xD
Nathan Chan
Maker
@3chospirits if a solid solution comes to mind, sure! :)
Rana Phool
Amazing! Storytime AI is such a great way to share stories with your kids and to customize the experience. I'm sure it will bring lots of joy and creativity to families around the world!
Anna
This is so cool! I’m curious how do you deal with inappropriate expressions or meanings?
Nathan Chan
Maker
@anya1 thank you! I considered creating my own filtering (just a simple checker for "bad" words) but OpenAI / the ChatGPT API does a decent job of screening for me (though I only did a handful of tests). When you ask for a story on inappropriate topics, OpenAI returns a generic message along the lines of: "This is an inappropriate topic for a children's story... please ask for something else" and the user of my app will see that message directly. If I hear reports of their filtering not being good enough, I'll add an extra layer of security!