Hi, I'm Dionis. I built Proseify because I wanted to give my grandmother a book about her own life, and every service that did it wanted a three-week interview process and a few hundred euros.

So: you type the memories in — names, places, the holiday that went wrong — and a full-length book comes back in minutes. Twenty chapters, a beginning and an ending, written about someone specific instead of from a template.

Two things I insisted on:

1. You read it before they do. Nothing is shared until you approve it.

2. You can judge the writing before paying. 38 complete books are on our shelf with the first two chapters free — no account, no email.

It isn't magic. The prose is good, but it isn't a novelist. What makes it land is that the details are real and yours; thin memories make a thin book. That's the honest trade.

$19 for a short book, $29 for a full novella, delivered as a private link, PDF and EPUB.

I'd love two things from you: does the free shelf convince you the writing is good enough? And what would stop you buying this as a gift?

Happy to answer anything here all day.