Narrator is a personal biographer who writes your memoirs. All you have to do is talk to Narrator about your photos, and watch as your moments turn into lasting memories! ✏️ Record 💡 Reflect 🖤 Remember with Narrator.
Hi everyone! I'm Eddie, an entrepreneur based in Seoul, Korea.
It is quite obvious that we are getting tired of social media. Because it offers only a snapshot, everyone is sharing their happiest moments in a constant competition, ironically leaving each other more isolated and lonelier than ever.
Of course, there are microblogs where you can write full stories. However, narrating through text can be a daunting task. It's about organizing thoughts, picking the precise words, and sending the true message, all of which require both skill and effort.
This is why my team and I made Narrator. We are leveraging the power of AI to break down barriers of storytelling that have been preventing many from capturing and sharing their authentic experiences. Narrator is designed to offer three core values:
1. Easy ✅: Chat and let Narrator write. It is as simple as sharing a story with a friend.
2. Authentic 🔍: Capture true stories, thoughts, and feelings that make your life unique.
3. Lasting 🎆: Keep a lifelong archive of your memories. Don’t let them fade!
To be honest, Narrator still needs a lot of work. If you are interested in social apps powered by AI, please follow us and get notified on our next launches! Let's discuss about the future of human connections in the flood of AI.
@hmpark_eddie
Hey everyone! I'm Kohsmos, the brain behind the backend/server/AI magic in this product.
Ever find yourself lost in memories? Sometimes I'm on a solo memory trip, but other times I'm all about sharing the good stuff with someone. Double the memory fun, right? 🙌 But here's the thing: my memories are scattered across different peeps. Gotta go hunting for 'em at various times, and my solo memory lane? It's got a pinch of bittersweet.
Imagine if I had a buddy who's always up for memory lane strolls?
Here's how I see it: I'd chat it up using the pics I snapped that day, then relish those moments later.
Oh, and FYI, I'm totally convinced we're living in the AI age. Back in the day, I was all about studying AI, and now I'm riding the AI wave like a champ.
An awesome AI pal to share memories with!
I had this wild dream and ended up making this cool product.
Let's embrace this era, daydream about the future, and weave our stories together. 🌟
@hmpark_eddie
Our team also believes that the essential part of bringing AI to our everyday life is the natural and human-like behaviors. We also made alot of effort into the chatting UX so it feels more natural for the users to chat with an AI!
I've always believed in the power of storytelling and self-reflection.
Narrator seems like the perfect partner for anyone looking to turn their precious photographs into meaningful memoirs.
@jackypan1989
Hi Jacky!
I'm Eddie, the creator of Narrator.
I'm reaching out to let you know that we ended #4th on Product of the Day, and is also currently ranked #4th among photography products launched this year!
Thank you so much for supporting us. I'm reaching out to invite you to participate in a brief user interview to learn more about your experiences with Narrator. As a token of our gratitude, we are offering a $5 Amazon gift card for sharing your thoughts.
If you are interested, please let me know!
I like the concept of the app and the app store page is pretty clear in what it can do. But I'm not sure you translate these capabilities on your landing page. A small Gif with a "Download App" button is not exactly what I would call converting. Or something I would even recommend for launching with on Product Hunt (as a UX guy).
If I was an unsuspecting user just browsing Product Hunt, would click on "Visit Website" on your launch day, I wouldn't be instilled with a lot of confidence seeing that sparse of content on narrator.ooo.
I love the aesthetic of your gif, but I would seriously think about revamping the entire landing page to include portions of the info you mentioned in your pinned comment (here on PH) and insights you are showcasing on your appstore page.
I'm thinking a strong intro, a short array of USPs, a few examples from your app and an about section that talks about your goals and future plans.
Designwise maybe something like Bikey does with their app landing page or a structure you could find for the time tracker app on timestwelve(dot)xyz. Just as a few pointers to showcase what I mean.
Something simple and condensed that has the ability to get your users up to speed without having to browse all app stores to find out important info.
As it stands right now, your landing page doesn't really tell your users anything substantial. No previews, no step by steps, no explainers or examples that your AI tools can create.
From a UX perspective its not a good look or a good first impression. Given the promises of your app, I'm sure this is still Work in Progress and a planned step on your apps journey.
But launching with basically no landing page and that sparse of a insight into your app is not the best strategy to be honest, to convince people to use your app. But maybe thats just me as a UX nerd.
@timwldn thank you so much for the insight! This is definitely what we should work on. We have been having discussions about achieving conversions, and you clearly made a point that we were too naive with the landing page. Just woke me up! Thank you so much.
@realmaxrush
Hi Max!
I'm reaching out to let you know that we ended #4th on Product of the Day, and is also currently ranked #4th among photography products launched this year!
Thank you so much for supporting us. I also want to invite you to participate in a brief user interview to learn more about your experiences with Narrator. As a token of our gratitude, we are offering a $5 Amazon gift card for sharing your thoughts.
If you are interested, please let me know!
Congrats with the launch!
I really like the concept, and even now use the Instagram more like an album of photos for the future me, but always struggle with captions. First, writing it eats a lot of time; and second, there's something that I don't want to share. But it's really cool to not just have the photo, but describe feelings or the experience a bit more detailed.
So when I installed Narrator, I was excited about that, expecting to see something between Instagram and Google Photos. A meaningful photo album for me, which parts I can post to Instagram or share with selected people. Let me describe my experience:
1. When I just installed the app, I saw the memoirs written by others. It's a great demo, but it pushed me off, because I was thinking about the private album. Now I was questioning if keeping things private is possible.
2. Describing the situation to an AI, and getting cheerful responses with summary and clarifying questions was an awesome experience. It was really enjoying to memorize things in this iterative way, and it actually made me feel even better for that past experience. I recognized some small details that I did not pay enough attention to.
3. At the point when I didn't have anything to add, I wrote something like "No, I think this is it" to an AI, because I was in that "conversation mood". I expected that it will close the conversation and show me the draft, but it just repeated the same response. I realized that I had to press the "Create" button in the corner, but that kinda pulled me out of the flow.
4. I was surprised that the memoir was saying "Roman was...". Expected it to be a story told from my own perspective.
5. I will briefly suggest some functions which absence I was upset with during that first session
– Being able to write memoirs for groups of photos
– Being able to share memoirs with specific people
– Being able to edit the memoir text written by the AI
– Being able to edit the layout of the text on the photos (now it's hard to read)
I wish you good luck with this product, and hope that my feedback helps :)
@kungurtsev Roman! This is just amazing. You just summarized the very concerns and directions we are considering about. I would love to keep connecting with you and let you know our next moves.
@hmpark_eddie, @kohsmos and rest of the team
Congrats for launching a great product. It looks nice.
This app captures pics and the "feeling", "emotions" about the picture. These are very private and subtle things that everyone would like to be private.
Please describe how you are currently achieving this today
@fun_ride Ofcourse! We do divide 'private' and 'public' content. Whenever a user generates their private content, it is always initially set to private and the user can make it public in the feed only after they check out their content! Hope I answered your question and thank you! 😀
Very cool idea! I often struggle with finding the motivation to arrange my photos, and this often leads to regret later on when I realize I've forgotten the details of the memories captured.
Hi @hmpark_eddie the way you used AI for using it for memories is awesome. I love what you are building and would like to help you in building it a perfect product. I'm interesting in working with your marketing team and is open to discussion as per your availability. I'm based out of India.
Let Narrator narrate the memories of us building it :)
@sid11 Thanks Sid! We are actually a team of three and there is no marketing team right now. But we will make sure to let everyone know when it’s time for recruiting :)
I absolutely love this concept, downloading the app now! If it's as good as I imagine it can be, this will be a game-changer for recording your memories
After playing around with it it does seem quite repetitive. After about 4 answers I am becoming annoyed because the response is always "That's great...That's fantastic...That's wonderful..." and it just repeats what I initially said followed by another question. Seems like there's some work to do when it comes to prompt engineering, but I like where this is going, will keep an eye for sure!
@jonurbonas Thank you so much for trying out Jonas! You are definitely right, the prompting and the entire process of creating content needs a lot of work! We are expecting to experiment different kinds of interface as we are wondering if chat is the best way to create your stories. Feel free to throw any ideas!
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