Play HN: Give me a kids story, get a book [pdf]

[guico]

I'm working on an app that generates illustrated children's automatically.

And I'm running out of ideas to test the generation output so I thought this could be fun.

You send me a story, I'll reply with the book, fully illustrated in PDF.

Might even make a Christmas gift?

I just ask you to rate the output 1-5 (imagine it had cost you 1USD to make)

[ofcourseyoudo]

What kind of format (how much text, how many pages, should there be descriptions of the illustrations or does your app make those assumptions based on the text?)?

[guico]

I just need a story line. Write as much or as little as you'd like.

Describing the characters helps making it more personal... and the result will always be more impressive in that sense.

[ofcourseyoudo]

sent

[guico]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a6BX1sBdLMkrXm4wYuOtNTkPRak...

[brudgers]

There was a computer that wrote stories.

It made people forget how to write stories themselves.

The rest is like Canticle for Leibowitz.

But for children.

Good luck.

[guico]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oHth48Bklfola85PwA4Jt5lTqmu...

[brudgers]

Your LLM seems unfamiliar with *Canticle for Leibowitz.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

[guico]

Yeah, apparently. This was done with gpt-4o. Will try claude-sonnet at some point next week, it's supposed to be better. At least in terms of being more "creative" not sure about getting this kind of reference.

[brudgers]

It only matters if you care about the actual writing. Using an AI to write usually means someone doesn’t.