One, Project origin and vision
Q: How did Dear Book start?
• Initially created as a hackathon project, Rafael won two consecutive AI-related competitions
• The founder was inspired by his reading experience with his daughter: the experience of improvising stories due to not understanding Chinese prompted him to think about AI automated creation
• Project positioning: Solana-based AI-driven children's book creation platform
Q: What is the social value of the project?
1. Accessibility: Allow more people to obtain personalized children's books for free/at low cost
2. Multilingual support: Breaking language barriers
3. Parent-child interaction: Strengthening family bonds, allowing children to participate in the creation process
4. Educational value: Enhance reading interest through personalized content
Two, Technical implementation and functional features
Q: How does Dear Book achieve AI creation?
Core technology stack:
• Text generation: Using Meta's Olama open-source model
• Image generation: Using Comfy UI tool
• Audio generation: New AI voiceover feature
Two creation modes:
1. Simple mode:
▪ Only need to input the theme
▪ AI automatically completes storylines and illustrations
2. Advanced mode:
▪ Customizable book titles, plots
▪ Support content exclusion settings
▪ More refined creation control
Three, Current challenges and solutions
Q: What technical issues are currently faced? How to solve them?
1. Text-image consistency issues:
▪ Issue: Story characters may change on different pages
▪ Solutions:
◦ Develop single-page editing features
◦ Upgrade to newer AI models
◦ Optimize prompt engineering
2. Image generation quality:
▪ Issue: Possible distortion or unnatural images
▪ Solutions:
◦ Continuously update models
◦ Improve prompt strategies
◦ Increase image style options
Four, Development roadmap
Q: What new features are planned for the near future?
1. Core function enhancement:
▪ PDF export functionality
▪ Page editing system
▪ Multiple book size and orientation options
▪ Different illustration style options
2. Platform upgrade:
▪ Comprehensive redesign of UI/UX
▪ Develop mobile applications (Android/iOS)
▪ Strengthen integration with the Solana ecosystem
▪ Improve wallet functionality
Five, Operations and community
Q: What is the team composition and operational status?
Team structure (8 core members):
• One full-time developer
• One part-time developer
• Part-time designer
• Operations manager
• Full-time business cooperation manager
• Part-time business cooperation manager
• 3 community managers (responsible for Telegram group and social media)
Project data:
• Generated over 4000 books within 7.5 days of going live
• Server request volume exceeds 1 million times
• Establish an active English and Chinese community
Six, Token economy and incentives
Q: How to achieve sustainable development of the project?
1. Paid model:
▪ Keep basic functions free
▪ Advanced features adopt a paid model
▪ Charge for performance-customized services
2. Token applications:
▪ First airdrop of 100,000 Dear Book tokens
▪ 10 winners each receive 10,000 tokens
▪ Used for paying server costs, community incentives, etc.
Seven, Recent activity arrangements
1. This X Spaces event (completed)
2. Thursday video presentation:
▪ Detailed demonstration of web application operation process
▪ In-depth explanation of the AI workflow
▪ ComfyUI tool usage demonstration