I've been working on a small project called Arkadia.
The idea started when I put a collar camera on my dog and experimented with using AI to narrate things from her point of view. That led me down a rabbit hole thinking about animal personalities and how people might interact with them.
Arkadia is a conversational AI app where you can chat with characters inspired by real animals.
The goal is to make it feel like discovering animals through conversation rather than interacting with a generic chatbot.
It's still early, but we have a few hundred people using it while I test conversation quality, memory, and latency.
One direction I'm exploring is using AI as a bridge to the real world. For example, after chatting with a character inspired by a specific breed or animal, you could discover farms, shelters, or places nearby where you could actually meet animals in real life.
Curious what the HN community thinks.