Storyloom

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  Landing page

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  Saga Play

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  Saga Hub

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  StoryBeing View

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  StoryBeing Hub

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  Novel Views

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  Read Novel

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  Chat View

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  Pera Wallet

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  Discover Page

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  Profile View

Inspiration

As a creator, I've always been fascinated by the genesis of a great character, but frustrated by the "blank page." I saw a gap in the creative landscape: AI chats felt superficial, lacking a true soul or past, while Web3 NFTs were often inert digital assets without a story. My inspiration was to merge these worlds. I asked: What if AI could be used not to create on demand, but to excavate complex, pre-existing souls or a full character that have their own inmutable lore and background? What if an NFT wasn't just a picture, but the ownership certificate to that soul's ongoing story? a FUTURE IP, the NEXT BATMAN! or Novel character, direct from the THE UNLEASHED CREATIVITY OF AI. That's how StoryLoom was born—from the desire to make digital ownership meaningful and creative AI deep!!.

What it does

StoryLoom is a platform that flips the creative process from creation to discovery. Users don't design characters; they "discover" unique StoryBeings—AI-generated entities with deep, immutable biographies and personalities.

Once a user discovers and owns a StoryBeing as an NFT on the Algorand blockchain, they can: Interact with it through conversational AI to explore its lore and personality.

Expand its universe by starring it in interactive, AI-generated Sagas with multiple endings. Benefit from its popularity. The NFT acts as a "Royalty Bond," granting the owner a share of revenue when the community uses their character. It’s a decentralized IP launchpad, turning users from passive consumers into active owners and storytellers.

How we built it

I built StoryLoom by orchestrating a pipeline of cutting-edge technologies, with Bolt.new as the central development environment!.

Core AI Logic: I designed an Iterative Narrative Fusion Pipeline. It starts with my 'Super Mixer' algorithm creating a unique narrative DNA. This seeds three concurrent calls to Google's Gemini API to generate diverse biographical drafts. A final Gemini call with a large context window then acts as an "AI Editor," fusing these drafts into one coherent, deep master biography.

Visual Generation: Another LLM analyzes the final biography to generate a highly optimized visual prompt, which is then fed to Replicate to create the character's portrait.

Blockchain & Economy: I chose Algorand for its speed, low cost, and scalability, which are essential for a royalty-based economy. I've integrated wallet connections via Pera Wallet and built the logic for minting StoryBeing NFTs as ASAs, establishing them as productive assets.

Database & Backend: Supabase serves as the backend database to store all StoryBeing data, user profiles, and narrative content.

Challenges we ran into

My biggest challenge was making the AI genuinely creative, not cliché. Getting an LLM to produce deep, non-obvious narratives required moving beyond simple prompting. I solved this by designing the "Iterative Fusion" method, where the AI refines its own work, creating a depth that a single pass could never achieve.

Another challenge was orchestrating the complex, asynchronous flow between multiple APIs (Gemini for text, Replicate for images, and Algorand for blockchain transactions) as a solo NON- developer, but thanks to bolt and a lot of perseverance this was possible!. Ensuring this pipeline was robust and handled errors gracefully was a significant engineering effort.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

I am incredibly proud of building a functional prototype of this complex vision. Specifically:

The AI Pipeline Works: The core "Improbable Creativity Engine" is functional and produces genuinely deep and surprising character biographies, proving the central thesis of the project. More than 5,000 parameters are behind this! A beast that allows you to escape all kinds of clichés! And well, it will continue to expand.

Successful Algorand Integration: I've successfully implemented the connection to Algorand wallets and the logic for minting NFTs, demonstrating that the "Royalty Bond" concept is technically feasible. A Coherent Experience: Despite the complex backend, I've designed a user interface that makes the "discovery" process feel magical and intuitive. Building this entire system as a solo developer is an accomplishment in itself. still on developing! this is just the first version!

What we learned

I learned that the true potential of modern LLMs isn't just in answering questions, but in complex, multi-step reasoning and synthesis, as demonstrated by the "AI Editor" phase. I also confirmed that my "Discovery vs. Creation" hypothesis is powerful; giving users a rich foundation unleashes a different, and perhaps more profound, kind of creativity. On the technical side, this project solidified my belief that a high-performance blockchain like Algorand is the only viable path for building sustainable and scalable creator economies.

What's next for StoryLoom

The journey for StoryLoom is just beginning. My next steps are:

Fully Implement the Economy: Build out the "Purple Credits" system and deploy the on-chain royalty distribution contracts on Algorand.

Introduce the Web2 On-Ramp: Allow users to join with just an email address to maximize adoption, offering them a seamless path to upgrade to the full Web3 experience. The long-term vision is to establish StoryLoom as the premier decentralized launchpad for the next generation of iconic characters and narrative IPs.

IT'S JUST THE BEGINNING. I think if other platforms manage to accumulate millions of users with boring and generic content, Storybeing could be much better! I hope to reach 1 million users in the near future! Integrate image generation by chapters, ambient music, generative AI video animation, among many other out-of-the-box concepts that I want to see for this platform!

Built With

• algorand
• bolt
• bolt.new
• elevenlabs
• gemini
• react
• replicate
• supabase
• typescript