I was supposed to be working on my book.
Instead, an AI talked me into building tooling. Not in a sinister way — more like, I was messing around with prompts to help with a scene, one thing led to another, and suddenly I had a product idea.
The idea: a web app to help writers get unstuck using AI. Prompts, story seeds, that kind of thing.
story-starter
I called it story-starter.com. Registered the domain. Started building.
Then I realised: dashes in app names are a pain to type on anything but a keyboard- also the site quikly left the realm of “starting stories”.
So I dropped it.
Landed on Creative AI Writer, as in creativeaiwriter.com… It describes the thing. Like it…
The stack
Went with AWS because I know it well and it made sense for the hybrid storage model I had in mind:
- API Gateway — REST endpoints, nothing fancy
- DynamoDB — user data, session state, documents the stuff you need fast
- S3 — generated content, story outputs, anything that grows unbounded
That split felt right. Hot data in Dynamo, cheap storage for the blobs where the size is over X.
The book
Still unfinished. needs a complete rewrite!!
But now I have a thing I can actually use to help with it, so maybe that counts.
Links:
- Creative AI Writer: https://creativeaiwriter.com