Hey Product Hunt 👋 Mikael here, solo creator of Votara. I've always loved interactive fiction — but the experience of "choose your own adventure" books and games never felt quite right. The choices were illusory, the worlds reset every playthrough, and the story you "shaped" was already written. So I built something different. Votara is a crowd-driven story engine where the audience votes on what happens next, AI writes the consequences, and the winning choice becomes permanent canon. No resets. No rewrites. The world remembers. Every few days a new junction opens — a critical decision point in an ongoing narrative. Thousands of readers vote, the world responds with a cinematic recap video, and the next chapter is written collectively. Under the hood: Claude handles the narrative AI, Freepik generates images and video, ElevenLabs handles voiceover, all orchestrated through a custom pipeline I built over several months. It also auto-publishes to Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Discord, Telegram, and WordPress — so the story lives wherever the audience is. The first chapter is live right now. Twenty survivors on an unknown shore. The first vote is open. I'd love your feedback — especially on the narrative pacing, the voting UX, or anything that feels off. This is day one and I'm here to listen. → votara.org

Votara

A story engine where the audience writes the next chapter

A story engine where the audience writes the next chapter