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Turn family memories into a royal heirloom storybook with guided prompts, chapters, photos, and premium PDF export.
Family-firstPDF Export
Tech Stack
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- Stripe
- PDF export pipeline
- Media upload foundations
- AI-guided prompts
Key Contributions
- End-to-end product design and implementation
- Landing page conversion and onboarding flow
- Story templates and guided prompts UX
- Studio and editor UX for chapters, photos, and ordering
- Deterministic PDF export for digital and print-ready output
- Billing and plan gating for Pro export
- Roadmap planning and sprint execution
The Challenge
- Story capture tools usually ask too much of users, especially older family members.
- Premium export output needed to be deterministic and print-safe before expanding the feature set.
- Alpha billing had to be trustworthy without implying real-money production readiness.
The Solution
- Used a template-first, guided-prompt flow to reduce blank-page friction and keep writing approachable.
- Focused early engineering on a reliable chapter and photo editor with deterministic PDF export.
- Made sandbox payment status explicit and gated export behind Pro to keep the free tier simple.
Outcomes
- Shipped a working alpha with guided templates, editor workflows, and export gating.
- Established clear positioning around family storytelling, elders, and keepsake-quality output.
Key Features
- Guided prompts with AI interview-style follow-ups
- Chapter editing and reordering
- Photos with captions
- Private sharing for family contributions
- PDF export with digital and hardcopy-ready modes
- Stripe billing portal and invoices
- Templates for Childhood and Roots, Love and Family, Career and Lessons, and Life Milestones
Product Decisions
- Payments run in sandbox or test mode during alpha.
- Pro export is gated so the free tier stays focused on drafting and editing.
- Reliability and print-safe export quality take priority over broader feature expansion.
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Project Details
RoleFounder / Full-stack (Frontend-led)
DomainConsumer App / Storytelling / GenAI
Typepersonal
Project Highlights
- Four-step flow: choose storyteller -> write or record -> shape chapters -> export keepsake PDF.
- Built for families and elders with calm prompts and a simple contribution flow.
- Pro Export includes premium PDF output with hardcopy-ready mode.
- Roadmap includes scan-to-relive QR links for voice and audio memories.