Story City

Name: Story City
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

Create & sell walkable adventures in your city

4.5•2 reviews•

1.1K followers

Create & sell walkable adventures in your city

4.5•2 reviews•

1.1K followers

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Story City’s intuitive no-code Creator Tools and templates empower you to create and monetise immersive walkable experiences that come to life as adventurers are guided through the real-world locations of your branching narrative, powered by our GPS app.

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Launch tags:Travel•Entertainment•Extended Reality

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Story City

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Hi Product Hunt 👋👋 Why go on a boring old walk when you can be a secret agent 🕵️? Have you ever read a story and wish you could be in it? Struggling with how to bring your city back to life post-pandemic? If so, we’re excited for you all to check out Story City! 🙃 ✨WHY THIS?✨ Our mission is to help creators build a career in the cities that they love, by telling stories you can live. Story City allows creators to make and sell stories, games, and real-life choose-your-adventures that only open when you’re standing in the right location. We created Story City for 3 reasons: 🧙‍♀️We wanted to actually be a part of a story rather than just being told it. We wanted to experience our own city, connect with friends, and do something more interesting than collecting Pokemon in a park. 🎭But we were non-technical creators - fiction writers, theatre-makers, musicians and filmmakers. Traditional AR/Animated creatures wasn’t really our jam. What was our version of interactive entertainment? What was our version of Pokemon Go but for film, books, music, theatre, tours? 🏙️Our cities are struggling, *hard*. How could we help creators, cities, businesses, festivals activate public space with technology in a way that was fun, relevant and long-running? Story City makes you the hero of your own story, not only giving you the chance to take part in adventures in cities across the world, but a way to easily create and sell these adventures without needing to know how to code or animate. Whether you’re an independent creator (*welcome* writers, theatre-makers, musicians filmmakers and more!) or an organisation (******hello****** cultural districts, community leagues and downtown revitalisation orgs), you can make interactive stories an adventurer can literally step into and live. 🌎EXPLORE WITH STORIES MADE BY YOU🌏 Once you make a story using our Creator Tools, each story unlocks at a particular start point and from there can either follow one path or branch off into dozens of different locations around the city (and which ones you visit will depend on the path you pick through the adventure). Our Creator Tools are accessible from any desktop webbrowser and are: 🎉 Free for creators to use: We only make money if you make money 👾 No-code: Just add in your chapters and link them together, drop your pins on the map, and load in your content like you would for a blog post 🤑 Monetisable: You can set your creations as free to drive foot traffic for city revitalisation or to augment events, or set a sale price to build an additional revenue stream as a creator, or perhaps fundraising for a good cause. 🪄 Updateable: Any changes or updates you make to your content after going live gets immediately pushed to the app 🌈 Full of Resources: We’ve got the resources you need to inspire you to make everything from a choose your adventure, to a fitness walk, to a scavenger hunt, with resources from videos to templates to weekly Twitch Streams. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction, a musical journey or scavenger hunt, all stories on Story City are made by creators - like YOU - who know their cities best. You don’t need to be tech-savvy. You can use the methods you already know and love to create with, and our Creator Tools do the rest! We can’t wait to hear your feedback, and see what you create! You can sign up for your free creator account here and start creating now: https://about.storycity.app/crea... And if you’re a curious adventurer, you can download the Story City App here (So far we have adventures in Western Canada and Australia): https://about.storycity.app/down... Warmly, Emily

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

We'll be live on Twitch today at https://www.twitch.tv/storycity at 3pm PST - come on by, say hi, and ask any questions you'd like live answered. Would love any feedback you have!

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3yr ago

Anytype

Great launch video - that put a smile on my face afternoon. Huge congrats to the team on today's launch. This is such a great way retell the stories of how you fell in love with a city. What inspired you to start this product?

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@charmandro yaaaas, we achieved our mission today then 😁 thanks so much for your support. We started this because we wanted to be a part of stories rather than just told them, but I was a non-technical creator. I met my cofounder who comes from a AAA gaming background and here we are! Would love to hear your favourite feature 🥰

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@charmandro We're thrilled to know our launch video brightened your day! As for the inspiration behind Story City, it sprouted from our own experiences of falling in love with different cities and their unique stories. We wanted to provide a platform that allows others to relive those magical moments and discover new ones. Thank you for your kind words and for sharing in our launch excitement!

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3yr ago

Videodeck

The power of storytelling strikes again! This is such a unique concept, I'm excited to try it out myself. Congrats on the launch! 🥳

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@heleana Huzzah for storytelling! Thank you for the kind words Heleana, I'm excited for you to try out the creator tools! Would love to hear your feedback on the tools if you try it, and we're also around if you need any support. Cheers!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@heleana Thank you for your excitement, we're thrilled to have you on board. Once you've had the chance to try Story City, we'd love to hear about your experience and any feedback you might have. We're always looking for ways to improve and enrich our user experience!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@heleana @brettludwig @justinkhan high five! Would definitely be keen to hear your perspective as a video maker - the majority of the content so far on Story City has been audio, images, and puzzles, but I'm so keen to collaborate with filmmakers, documentary makers, and video makers to build immersive video based experiences in cities. You can always hit us up with feedback or brainstorming at info@storycity.app

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3yr ago

That's just amazing! I already imagine this being the backbone of some future events Also, the intro video is top tier XD Congrats on the launch!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@andrei_costea2 Thanks Andrei! We had a lot of fun shooting the intro vid :) We'd love to see this helping people take their events to the next level. If you end up trying our Creator Tools let us know what you think.

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@andrei_costea2 That's the hope! There's so much augmentation that can be done digitally like this for live events, it adds another layer of interest and can potentially last long after an event is past. We're going to need both in person and digital solutions to make our cities as vibrant as they were again. Hehe, and thanks for the video cudos, safe to say we had a ball making it. If you have any questions or feedback on the creator tools we'd really appreciate, always trying to be better and make sure our roadmap comes from our users not just what ideas come into our heads.

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3yr ago

Congrats on the launch. I like the product idea. Have you ever thought to name it "Story Places" or something like that? Just because it still will keep your core idea, but the scalability is different. There are a lot of cool places which are not in the cities, and I believe it would be great to share such locations with people.

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@george_frigo Thank you for the suggestion and feedback George - the Stories don't necessarily need to be in cities to work in our app - as long as a place has coordinates then you can make a story there! I take your meaning about the intent of the name, though - it's definitely something we'll need to talk about to make sure that people aren't assuming they can only make a Story in a city. Thanks!!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@george_frigo @brettludwig Thanks for the suggestion George, as Brett said, you can make stories anywhere but who's to say we don't have additional products that maybe just impact kids, or just look at travel, or celebrate rural as the main point of them :)

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3yr ago

Congrats on the launch this is a very cool idea After reading and going through it I realized how amazing it is But the website seems not to be responsive on my mobile device. I do not know why tho ..

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@daniel_brantley Thanks so much for dropping by! So the link we have for the website is direct to the tools which is currently not optimised for mobile but for use on desktop browsers. But that is a top priority in the road map once we iron out the feedback for the desktop browser version - and appreciate that that is your first instinct as a creator to be mobile first. You can see more at our creator landing page here on mobile: https://about.storycity.app/crea... Any other feedback or comments don't hesitate to drop another message!

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3yr ago

@emilycraven thanks I will check it out!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@daniel_brantley Thanks Daniel, our creator tools are best served on the desktop - creating a story usually requires some keyboard typing and we found that people were most effective when creating them on a desktop. We are planning on adding mobile support depending on feedback like yours!

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3yr ago

@brettludwig that’s great I had the opportunity to actually check it out on my PC when i was less busy and it turned out to be great.

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@brettludwig @daniel_brantley Amazing, thank you so much for taking the time to do that! Glad the desktop version worked well and will look at prioritizing a mobile responsiveness for the tools.

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3yr ago

I love this idea so much. As a digital nomad, I'm always looking for new ways to explore the cities I'm visiting. It's often hard to work and squeeze in the standard walking tours that are available. I love that you can find unique and personal guides around a city that you can explore at any time. Great product, I can't wait to explore my next city with it!

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@sarah_rabs Appreciate your support Sarah! I am jealous of the digital nomad life (Though I was one a couple of years back). That was definitely one of my biggest issues when I was travelling that there were tours I wanted to go on but I was just there at the wrong time. Hopefully this allows guides to expand what they're doing so they don't miss people like us. And hey, I think a digital nomad's perspective on a place is just as valuable so perhaps that sparks and idea or two for you. Would love to hear your feedback on the tools if you try it! While most of our current content is entertainment content aimed at locals it all doubles as tourism content because you get to visit cool places.

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3yr ago

Story City

Maker

@sarah_rabs Right on Sarah! We love the idea that people can explore different cities in a really unique way, and that's what we're aiming for. Please let us know if you get a chance to try the Creator Tools, we'd love to know if you have any suggestions.

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3yr ago

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Story City receives high praise for its innovative approach to exploring cities through immersive, walkable experiences. Users appreciate its unique concept and the wide range of story templates available. The platform is lauded for encouraging outdoor exploration and connecting people with places, making it particularly appealing to digital nomads and creatives. Some users note the brand identity could be updated and express concerns about safety in real-world locations. Overall, Story City is celebrated for its mission and potential to inspire creativity and adventure.

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