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Show HN: I made a web app to bring children's drawings to life
Hey HN! I used to spend hours drawing all kind of things as a kid.
Sadly though, those drawings are long gone. Inspired by this, I
created DoodleDreams. A webapp that brings drawings to life using
AI and stores them as memories. You can always look back at the
drawings, see who made them, and even know the age they were drawn
at. I thought it was a fun way to preserve those memories. What do
you think? Viktor
Author : vikmex
Score : 59 points
Date : 2024-12-27 18:50 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (doodledreams.cc)
(TXT) w3m dump (doodledreams.cc)
| vikmex wrote:
| Hi, Viktor here!
|
| I made this as I believe it would have made me very excited to
| see my drawings come alive when I was a kid.
|
| I hope someone can get the same joy out of it as I would have at
| that age!
| maalber wrote:
| Hey Viktor, looks cool! It looks like it uses some image-to-video
| generation model. I would be interested to know which one you
| used, how you selected it, and whether you did some
| training/fine-tuning yourself in the process.
| vikmex wrote:
| Hey! Yes, it's using image-to-video. I went with a model by
| KlingAI as it seemed to produce the best results from my tests.
| gexaha wrote:
| I found their API quite expensive, I wonder how you go about
| it.
| eGQjxkKF6fif wrote:
| This is truly amazing. Is there a 'How it Works' a 'Potentials'
| section?
|
| I work with things that push to inspire creativity and learning
| to foster the passion behind creativity and authentic works where
| otherwise we'd see how 'AI copies our work' and now we can see
| how AI can bring works to life and make them more fun.
|
| Over-all would you like to see schools adopting your project? I
| didn't see a contact form but would love to be able to reach out
| and get more insight. I think this is absolutely wonderful.
|
| While I know tokens and generative AI have costs, I can see the
| business model.
|
| Since you've made it a web app have you explored the possibility
| of making it cross platform with something like Cordova?
| https://cordova.apache.org/
|
| Perhaps setting up a bluesky social and documenting the thought
| process as you build on would be amazing, I'd love to see more;
| but would definitely like to be able to reach out in the future.
| Definitely bookmarked!
| vikmex wrote:
| Hi! Thanks for your kind words!
|
| There's a short "How it works" section, but could possibly be
| more detailed. No "potentials" section currently.
|
| Yes, exactly! Sure, schools are welcome to adopt the project.
| Sorry, added contact details to the page now! Feel free to send
| an email to: hello@doodledreams.cc
|
| I have not looked into Cordova, will take a look at that now.
|
| Thanks for your feedback!
| bloomingkales wrote:
| You have a brilliant idea.
|
| I kinda want to drop a Maddox blog post here haha:
|
| http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule
|
| Idea:
|
| - Maybe let kids write a few sentences with the image and
| generate a picture book? I could see parents paying for that
| micro transaction for their kids. This is better than a lot
| of the mindless games.
|
| - You'd basically be creating young authors/artists
|
| - Outputting a whole book as an option may give it a "whole
| package" feel. It will also allow it to be a collaborative
| process between the parent and child (or between other kids
| since they can add things to the story).
| j_french wrote:
| Looks interesting, but it would be nice to be able to try it out
| (once even) without subscribing. The one token that seems to be
| available when you create an account disappears when you try to
| create an animation
| vikmex wrote:
| Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for
| free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but
| it should still be visible under "History"
| scubakid wrote:
| Always a good idea to test full onboarding + purchase flow
| before posting.
| dm03514 wrote:
| This looks really interesting, I instantly found a drawing of my
| kids to upload because I thought he would love it, but I was
| unable to even try it once without paying.
| vikmex wrote:
| Hi, sorry for your troubles. It should be possible to try for
| free, looks like I have a bug after you submit the drawing, but
| it should still be visible under "History"
| yuvalr1 wrote:
| This looks very cool! The drawing examples on the page are
| amazing. I wish all kids could draw like that :D
|
| I wonder what the AI understands when given a more sketchy
| drawing.
|
| It's really amazing that we can even have these kinds of things
| these days. I wish you great success with the app!
| ksdk wrote:
| The loading time for the example animations is very slow, I was
| about to write a comment about how the supposed animations did
| not work.
| franze wrote:
| Pretty good animation: here is my father Christmas
| https://firebasestorage.googleapis.com/v0/b/doodle-dreams.fi...
| riiii wrote:
| Make Christmas great again!
| indoor47 wrote:
| Didn't work for me.. animation just had some camera scroll, but
| figures remained static
| jagged-chisel wrote:
| I can't try it because I'm out of animation tokens? I thought I
| was trying for free. :-(
| pj_mukh wrote:
| Super cool. If you don't mind me asking, what model are you
| using?
| johndevor wrote:
| Tried (and paid) but the drawing video is just a static image.
| bdangubic wrote:
| you have to use your imagination to see the video :)
| tacitusarc wrote:
| First, this is a cool idea.
|
| Second, are you doing moderation? What is your strategy for
| porn/illegal content? It often seems like that managing those
| practicalities kills services like these.
| s-sameer wrote:
| This is really interesting bro
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