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Show HN: I built a bedtime story web app in a weekend using AI tools

1•ealpopa•1h ago
Over the weekend I ran a small experiment to see how quickly I could go from idea → working MVP using AI-assisted development tools.

The result is a simple web app that generates short, personalized bedtime stories and narrates them in my own voice. The codebase is intentionally rough in places, but the app works and has been usable in a real setting.

What surprised me most was how easy it was to iterate on a real, deployed system without getting stuck on early architectural decisions.

Stack: FastAPI, Supabase, Fly.io, Vercel Tools: Cursor, Lovable, Claude, ChatGPT

Curious how others here are approaching AI-assisted development, and where you draw the line before hardening things for production.

Link: https://sleepli.app

Comments

dangus•1h ago
Perhaps it would be better to rename it “slopli” since this is AI slop.

I think I would be rather hesitant to use voice cloning to read to my kids before such things were studied by medical professionals.

I would also be hesitant to use this because I’m not a lazy piece of shit.

Another stupid AI app to file under “Nobody asked for this.” Do we really need AI-personalized bedtime stories?

Have you tried using your brain as a parent? You already know your child, make up a story with them. You can literally just do it on the fly because you have a real brain with intelligence that isn’t artificial.

But who knows maybe your ideal customer profile is people with severe lack of judgment.

(Call my comment harsh if you want but I don’t think it’s harsh enough. This is like “downfall of enlightened society” type of shit.)

ealpopa•24m ago
Superficial, but point taken. By this metric there would be no need for story books. Also, there are situation where tue child want to hear a story from grandma, but she’s not there. Thanks for your thoughts.

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