Every night, Träumli writes a new bedtime story starring your child, built from their name, their friends, and the worlds they love. Ready in seconds for you to read aloud. 3 free stories to start. No subscription, no ads, and I never use them to train AI.
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Hi Product Hunt 👋 I'm Marco. I built Träumli on my own, for my own kid.
Bedtime kept hitting the same wall at our house. We'd run out of books, or my kid wanted a story about them and their friends, and I'd end up making something up half-asleep. Eventually I just built the thing I kept wishing I had.
You tell Träumli who the story's for: their name, their age, the friends and stuffed animals who should turn up, the kind of world they're into (the Moon Harbour, the Star Forest, the Bears' Midnight Bakery). You also pick what tonight's story should do, like help them settle down or find a bit of courage before sleep. Tap start and a new story, written just for that evening, shows up in a few moments. Then you read it aloud yourself. Träumli isn't the voice at the bedside and doesn't try to be. It just means you're never stuck for something to read.
A few things that mattered to me while building it:
• You're in control. You decide what stays out of a story, and you read every one before your kid hears it. Nothing gets to them without you seeing it first.
• No dark patterns. You get 3 free stories to start, no credit card, no subscription. One-time packs work fine on their own.
• Your stories stay yours. I don't sell your data, I don't run ads, and I don't use your stories to train AI models.
It's live on iOS and Android today. I'd really love your feedback, especially if you've got kids of your own. What would actually make bedtime easier for you? I'll be around all day. 🌙
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My kid's name and our dog showed up in the story, which got an actual giggle out of him before bed. Quick to load and the no-subscription bit is a relief.
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@glayengzelfwle Thank you! No subscription was a hard rule from day one. Bedtime stories are the last place anyone needs another monthly charge, which is why the 3 free stories never expire and the packs are pay-once. And yes, pets tend to steal the show in these stories.
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Love the privacy-first approach and the personalization is genuinely sweet. One thing I'd love is the option to save a little library of past stories so my kid can pick favorites to re-read on tougher nights.
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@duranyoldze23p Good news, Duran: that's already in the app. Your past stories are kept in your library, so you can go back and re-read the favorites whenever you like. And you're onto something with the tougher nights. A familiar story often does more than a new one, which is exactly why I didn't want them to disappear after one evening.
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Love the no-subscription model and the privacy angle, that alone sets it apart. One thing that would make this a nightly habit for us: let me save a few favorite "worlds" like our usual dinosaur setup or space adventure so I can pick them in two taps instead of rebuilding the prompt each time.
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@toprakcwek Fair point, Toprak. The people already stick around: your listener's profile keeps the friends and stuffed animals, so that part never needs rebuilding. The world is what you still pick fresh each night. Saving a "usual dinosaur setup" to reuse in two taps isn't in there yet, but it matches what I see at bedtime, where a kid wants the same world for weeks and then drops it overnight. Someone above asked about stories that continue across nights, and I suspect saved worlds are the simpler half of that same wish. Noted.
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Made one for my niece using her dog’s name and her favorite color, and the little details it wove in actually made her grin mid-story. Honestly surprised how warm it felt given it was generated in seconds.
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@onurzdkj Thanks Onur. Favorite colors and pets are exactly the details I want the stories to pick up, because a kid can smell a generic story with their name pasted in from a mile away. Hope your niece gets many more of them 🌙
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Love that you don't train AI on the stories and the no-subscription model is refreshing. One thought though, it would be amazing to have a "series mode" where you can continue a story across multiple nights, building the same characters and plot, instead of starting fresh each time. My daughter would get so attached to recurring characters.
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@hamitk7s6 Thanks Hamit, series mode is high on my list. Half of it actually exists already: you set up your listener once, with their friends and stuffed animals, and that cast can come back in every story as long as you select them to do so. What doesn't carry over yet is the plot. Continuing a storyline across nights is tricky to get right, because each episode still has to end somewhere calm enough for sleep, but that's the direction I want to take this. Curious which half matters more to your daughter: the same characters coming back, or one big story that keeps going?
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Love how the story pulls in the kid's name and friends from the first line, that personal touch makes bedtime feel way more magical than a generic book.
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@naciyee32915 Thank you! That first line took a lot of tuning. Kids notice right away when a story only name-drops them instead of actually being about them, which is why friends and stuffed animals go in as characters who get to do things. What kinds of worlds do your kids go for? That's the part I'm working on next.
My kid's name and our dog showed up in the story, which got an actual giggle out of him before bed. Quick to load and the no-subscription bit is a relief.
@glayengzelfwle Thank you! No subscription was a hard rule from day one. Bedtime stories are the last place anyone needs another monthly charge, which is why the 3 free stories never expire and the packs are pay-once. And yes, pets tend to steal the show in these stories.
Love the privacy-first approach and the personalization is genuinely sweet. One thing I'd love is the option to save a little library of past stories so my kid can pick favorites to re-read on tougher nights.
@duranyoldze23p Good news, Duran: that's already in the app. Your past stories are kept in your library, so you can go back and re-read the favorites whenever you like. And you're onto something with the tougher nights. A familiar story often does more than a new one, which is exactly why I didn't want them to disappear after one evening.
Love the no-subscription model and the privacy angle, that alone sets it apart. One thing that would make this a nightly habit for us: let me save a few favorite "worlds" like our usual dinosaur setup or space adventure so I can pick them in two taps instead of rebuilding the prompt each time.
@toprakcwek Fair point, Toprak. The people already stick around: your listener's profile keeps the friends and stuffed animals, so that part never needs rebuilding. The world is what you still pick fresh each night. Saving a "usual dinosaur setup" to reuse in two taps isn't in there yet, but it matches what I see at bedtime, where a kid wants the same world for weeks and then drops it overnight. Someone above asked about stories that continue across nights, and I suspect saved worlds are the simpler half of that same wish. Noted.
Made one for my niece using her dog’s name and her favorite color, and the little details it wove in actually made her grin mid-story. Honestly surprised how warm it felt given it was generated in seconds.
@onurzdkj Thanks Onur. Favorite colors and pets are exactly the details I want the stories to pick up, because a kid can smell a generic story with their name pasted in from a mile away. Hope your niece gets many more of them 🌙
Love that you don't train AI on the stories and the no-subscription model is refreshing. One thought though, it would be amazing to have a "series mode" where you can continue a story across multiple nights, building the same characters and plot, instead of starting fresh each time. My daughter would get so attached to recurring characters.
@hamitk7s6 Thanks Hamit, series mode is high on my list. Half of it actually exists already: you set up your listener once, with their friends and stuffed animals, and that cast can come back in every story as long as you select them to do so. What doesn't carry over yet is the plot. Continuing a storyline across nights is tricky to get right, because each episode still has to end somewhere calm enough for sleep, but that's the direction I want to take this. Curious which half matters more to your daughter: the same characters coming back, or one big story that keeps going?
Love how the story pulls in the kid's name and friends from the first line, that personal touch makes bedtime feel way more magical than a generic book.
@naciyee32915 Thank you! That first line took a lot of tuning. Kids notice right away when a story only name-drops them instead of actually being about them, which is why friends and stuffed animals go in as characters who get to do things. What kinds of worlds do your kids go for? That's the part I'm working on next.