Experience storytelling like never before. ScaryStories Live transforms your ideas into live, AI-generated story scenes that evolve as you direct them. Perfect for creators, streamers, or anyone exploring the future of interactive storytelling.
Hey folks,
I’m Ning, ex-FAIR researcher and Llama 3 Speech contributor. I was also a founding member of Seamless Communication (AI translation) which was featured on Nature and TIMES best innovations 2023.
My background is in real-time multimodal systems: making models not just see or speak, but respond. I'd like to build a narrating layer for today's AI videos.
I love the AI Dungeon experience because it gives you true agency: the story is yours. And recent wave of AI models unlock new experience. But wait, latency kills the mood. If the monster waits 3 seconds to move, it’s comedy. And hopping between prompts like stitched stills break immersive experience. These are the two problems we’re fixing:
- Latency: we aim for ≤3 seconds p95, meaning 95% of reactions land in under three seconds to keep the rhythm tight. We’re also building full streaming control so you can steer the scene with arbitrary speech or text prompts as it unfolds.
- Camera movement: instead of hopping between prompts like stitched stills, we turn choices into shots: reliable pans, tilts, dollies, rack focus, and smooth eases, while preserving screen-space anchors and temporal continuity.
For me, this project is a way to turn all that research into something visceral where performance and machine cognition blur together in real time.
@ning_dongHow are you tackling the model overhead and maintaining visual continuity shot to shot?
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@mohsinproduct Great question! If model overhead means latency here, we adopt pixel->token compression rate that's on the extreme side. While it's hard to build a model for general purpose, with careful lightweight finetuning for specific niche (like horror as our first probe) it works reasonably well. For visual continuity it is also a hard problem, many research work trying to tackle this recently and optimization could also be added in production layer.
What a day to launch scarystories!! i'm so happy to see this project come to life and fish.audio is honored to power such a well made app. congrats team!!
@hehe6z Thanks so much, Helena! ❤️ That really means a lot coming from you and the Fish Audio team. We're beyond stoked to have you powering our stories. So glad we could get this out on the spookiest day of the year! 🎃 Happy Halloween! 👻
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@hehe6z Thanks Helena! I've been working in the speech field for a few years and some voices in fish.audio are the most expressive ones I heard, which fit our scenarios the best!
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So happy to see @tonyabracadabra and @helen9 , who I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with before, launching something new again! 🎉
Huge congratulations on getting ScaryStories Live out into the world — and I truly hope it goes viral! 🔥
I tried it out and absolutely loved the experience — there are so many delightful surprises throughout. Would love to see more public stories available soon!
One small note: when the network connection isn’t great, the final video synthesis step sometimes gets stuck — just a heads-up in case it helps with improvements. 😊
@helen9@maybemonad Hey Leo, massive thanks for cheering on ScaryStories Live!! We’ll ship more public stories soon. Noted on the final synthesis under weak connections; we’re adding smarter retries and a lightweight fallback so it won’t get stuck. Here’s to it going truly viral. 👻
@cruise_chen Thank you so much, Cruise! We're thrilled you think it's cool! 😊 That's the perfect question! So, right now, after you direct the AI through the 5 interactive sketch steps, the final, auto-magically polished MP4 (with the voiceover, sound effects, pacing, etc.) is up to 20 seconds. BUT... that's just for now! We are incredibly excited to share that we're about to remove those limits. Very soon, we'll be rolling out a new version where you can blow past the 5-step limit and create videos that are as long as you want! We're talking a "freely exploring" version where your creativity is the only limit. We can't wait for you to get your hands on it!🙌
I'm Helen. I helped ship AI games to millions of players and built creative tools for more than 300K professional creators.
ScaryStories Live is AI Dungeon meets real-time video generation. If AI Dungeon lets you play through your imagination with text, ScaryStories Live lets you see it, hear it, and feel it, in real time. You direct the AI, make choices, type your next move, and within milliseconds, the scene comes to life with sounds, whispering voices, and visual clues. 😈
We built ScaryStories Live because no matter how many AI tools we have today that generate “beautiful” videos, most of them are just that beautiful, not alive. They don’t make your heart race, your hands sweat, or your imagination run wild.🥱 Great stories come from the process of discovery, not from static prompts or templates. So we designed ScaryStories Live to make creation fun, fast, and alive.😊
Imagine watching Stranger Things and suddenly stepping into the Upside Down yourself, shaping the outcome, recording your journey, and sharing it as a cinematic short that feels alive, emotional, and terrifying. Or uploading a photo from your bedroom, then experiencing what happens next, in real time. Once your adventure ends, our AI helps polish it into a high-quality short video, with pacing, sound, and emotion tuned perfectly, ready to share with the world and our community.🙌
We’re starting with scary stories, but our vision is bigger: to turn ScaryStories Live into a new medium where any genre, any fandom, and any creator can bring their imagination to life, not by writing prompts, but by living them. 💕
I’ve always loved scary stuff — from haunted stories to eerie visuals that pull you in — so this idea of live, evolving horror scenes powered by AI sounds like my kind of nightmare (in the best way 😅).
And you picked the right day to launch 😊Happy Halloween 🎃👻 @ning_dong
Are you planning to open this up for creators to monetize their live AI stories (like Twitch or YouTube integrations)?
I’m Tony, engineer turned storyteller, 3x founder, ex-Uber, now building https://scarystories.live with Ning and Helen.
We’ve always loved stories that make you feel before you can explain why. But every “AI video” tool we tried felt the same, static, overproduced, and lifeless.
Beautiful, but embalmed.
So we built something that breathes. A browser-based, real-time content engine where stories unfold live, you speak, scenes shift, your friends vote, and the world reacts. No cameras, no installs, just your imagination and a browser tab.
When it’s over, the AI reframes that playthrough into a cinematic film, same continuity, polished to movie quality. It’s not just creation, it’s transformation.
We’re building a new category of entertainment, where experience itself becomes creation. Every playthrough is a directorial act; every viewer can turn their choices into film.
If you’ve ever wanted to play your own story and watch it become cinema, that’s what we’re here to build.
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@ning_dong How are you tackling the model overhead and maintaining visual continuity shot to shot?
@mohsinproduct Great question! If model overhead means latency here, we adopt pixel->token compression rate that's on the extreme side. While it's hard to build a model for general purpose, with careful lightweight finetuning for specific niche (like horror as our first probe) it works reasonably well. For visual continuity it is also a hard problem, many research work trying to tackle this recently and optimization could also be added in production layer.
Fish Audio
What a day to launch scarystories!! i'm so happy to see this project come to life and fish.audio is honored to power such a well made app. congrats team!!
ScaryStories Live
@hehe6z Thanks so much, Helena! ❤️ That really means a lot coming from you and the Fish Audio team. We're beyond stoked to have you powering our stories. So glad we could get this out on the spookiest day of the year! 🎃 Happy Halloween! 👻
@hehe6z Thanks Helena! I've been working in the speech field for a few years and some voices in fish.audio are the most expressive ones I heard, which fit our scenarios the best!
So happy to see @tonyabracadabra and @helen9 , who I’ve had the pleasure to collaborate with before, launching something new again! 🎉
Huge congratulations on getting ScaryStories Live out into the world — and I truly hope it goes viral! 🔥
I tried it out and absolutely loved the experience — there are so many delightful surprises throughout. Would love to see more public stories available soon!
One small note: when the network connection isn’t great, the final video synthesis step sometimes gets stuck — just a heads-up in case it helps with improvements. 😊
ScaryStories Live
@helen9 @maybemonad Hey Leo, massive thanks for cheering on ScaryStories Live!! We’ll ship more public stories soon. Noted on the final synthesis under weak connections; we’re adding smarter retries and a lightweight fallback so it won’t get stuck. Here’s to it going truly viral. 👻
Agnes AI
Super cool that ScaryStories provides an interactive storytelling! Just curious - what is the maximum length of the story does it support so far?
ScaryStories Live
@cruise_chen Thank you so much, Cruise! We're thrilled you think it's cool! 😊 That's the perfect question! So, right now, after you direct the AI through the 5 interactive sketch steps, the final, auto-magically polished MP4 (with the voiceover, sound effects, pacing, etc.) is up to 20 seconds. BUT... that's just for now! We are incredibly excited to share that we're about to remove those limits. Very soon, we'll be rolling out a new version where you can blow past the 5-step limit and create videos that are as long as you want! We're talking a "freely exploring" version where your creativity is the only limit. We can't wait for you to get your hands on it!🙌
ScaryStories Live
Hey Product Hunt Fam ❤️,
Happy Halloween 👻！
I'm Helen. I helped ship AI games to millions of players and built creative tools for more than 300K professional creators.
ScaryStories Live is AI Dungeon meets real-time video generation. If AI Dungeon lets you play through your imagination with text, ScaryStories Live lets you see it, hear it, and feel it, in real time. You direct the AI, make choices, type your next move, and within milliseconds, the scene comes to life with sounds, whispering voices, and visual clues.
😈
We built ScaryStories Live because no matter how many AI tools we have today that generate “beautiful” videos, most of them are just that beautiful, not alive. They don’t make your heart race, your hands sweat, or your imagination run wild.🥱 Great stories come from the process of discovery, not from static prompts or templates. So we designed ScaryStories Live to make creation fun, fast, and alive.😊
With ScaryStories Live, you’re inside your story.
🎮 You play it like a game.
🎥 You create it like a film.
💀 You feel it like a nightmare.
Imagine watching Stranger Things and suddenly stepping into the Upside Down yourself, shaping the outcome, recording your journey, and sharing it as a cinematic short that feels alive, emotional, and terrifying. Or uploading a photo from your bedroom, then experiencing what happens next, in real time. Once your adventure ends, our AI helps polish it into a high-quality short video, with pacing, sound, and emotion tuned perfectly, ready to share with the world and our community.🙌
We’re starting with scary stories, but our vision is bigger: to turn ScaryStories Live into a new medium where any genre, any fandom, and any creator can bring their imagination to life, not by writing prompts, but by living them. 💕
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We’d love your feedback to help us improve and grow. Let's shape the next frontier of storytelling together. 🚀
Best,
Helen Xiong
Fish Audio
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ScaryStories Live
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I’m Tony, engineer turned storyteller, 3x founder, ex-Uber, now building https://scarystories.live with Ning and Helen.
We’ve always loved stories that make you feel before you can explain why. But every “AI video” tool we tried felt the same, static, overproduced, and lifeless.
Beautiful, but embalmed.
So we built something that breathes. A browser-based, real-time content engine where stories unfold live, you speak, scenes shift, your friends vote, and the world reacts. No cameras, no installs, just your imagination and a browser tab.
When it’s over, the AI reframes that playthrough into a cinematic film, same continuity, polished to movie quality. It’s not just creation, it’s transformation.
We’re building a new category of entertainment, where experience itself becomes creation. Every playthrough is a directorial act; every viewer can turn their choices into film.
If you’ve ever wanted to play your own story and watch it become cinema, that’s what we’re here to build.
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