Teller Stories
AI-powered storytelling that turns your photos into personalized stories.
Hypothesis
Personalized content is the next evolution in media. Media has gone from edited and linear, to recorded and saved, to recommended and shared. Personalization algorithms will give way to personalized content — content that features the viewer and their world. I'm not sure how much space it will take up, and professionally-created content will always dominate, just as linear still has its place today, but personalized content will continue to grow.
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The Problem
Your photos sit in a camera roll, sorted by date, forgotten by next week. The moments they capture matter, but nobody has time to turn them into something more. Scrapbooks are a project. Journals fall off after a week. The photos just pile up.
The Solution
Teller Stories turns your photos into short stories you'll actually want to read, keep, and share. Upload one to eight photos, name your characters, add an optional note for context, and pick a genre. The app generates a complete, personalized story with your original photos woven throughout the narrative. A morning walk becomes a children's story. A vacation becomes a sci-fi adventure. A date night becomes a romantic comedy. The photos stay yours. The story is something new.
How AI Is Used
Claude analyzes the uploaded photos to understand the people, setting, and mood in each image, then writes a complete short story calibrated to the chosen genre. The narrative is structured so that each photo appears at the right moment in the story, making the images feel like they were always part of the telling. No illustrations are generated. Your real photos are the visuals.
Tech Stack
Next.js, Expo, React Native, Supabase, Claude API, RevenueCat, Vercel.
What I Learned
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