Once upon a bedtime…
Magical Hekaya
Personalized AI storybooks kids star in — live, with paying customers.
Real revenuePaying customers · Live product sales
Chapter One
The impossible ask
Personalized kids' books usually mean swapping a name into a template. Making a child the actual hero — consistent face, consistent story, printed and delivered — is a much harder generation problem.
Chapter Two
How the magic works
Photo-based character generation keeps the child recognizable across every illustrated page.
Structured output contracts between agents solve long-horizon narrative consistency — each agent hands the next a validated, typed story state instead of free text.
AI narration and rendered story videos turn each book into something kids can watch and listen to, not just read.
Print-on-demand fulfilment closes the loop from a photo upload to a physical book at the door.
— where every child becomes the hero of their own book —
Chapter Three
Happily shipped after
Live consumer product at magicalhekaya.com with real paying customers.
44K organic search impressions in 3 months — 16.9K in the last 28 days (Google Search Console).
Full pipeline owned end-to-end: generation, payments, rendering, fulfilment.
- Next.js 16
- Gemini
- ElevenLabs
- Remotion
- AWS S3
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma
- Print-on-demand
The End*
*except it isn't — the product is live with paying customers at magicalhekaya.com.