On the side, custom coloring books for kids using nano banana, started with a project for my son, and its a little janky for some photos but have had some interest already: https://bespokebooks.io. I think it needs to be a phone app to really work for most people though, so that's next on my to do list besides some prompt tweaking.

Notebook to do it yourself here: https://github.com/dbish/bespoke-books-ai-example

I think there are a lot of really fun projects possible now in the child book creation space, particularly as you build tools that they can use themselves (like adding voice interfaces to building a book or story).

This is outside my 996 job of AI Agent/Assistant infra + ops :)

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coreylane 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I've had similar ideas involving bespoke print on-demand books, could you share how you actually get these printed/published?

	▲	dbish 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Currently using Lulu because they have a developer api and allow printing a single book programmatically, many places I found either didn’t have an api or required a min order of books that isn’t needed for a one off custom design. https://developers.lulu.com/home My hope for this project is to get enough demand that I have an excuse to figure out a printing option myself and buy some new equipment :)

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touristtam 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is truely awesome and reminds me of the project that was making a litle one story book with the child as the main character. It was at least a couple of years ago I think.