GenAI Webtoon. Creator write fictions 10x faster.
HeartByte is a content platform where creators can create original fiction/comics or derivative works based on other fictional worlds. Creators write fictions 10 times faster on HeartByte. It's a place for community to fully indulge in the fictional world that they wish they were in.
Active Founders
Rachel Wang, Founder
Rachel Wang is the co-founder and CEO of HeartByte, which she started with Xinyue Liang in 2023. Before founding HeartByte, Rachel was the Chief Data Officer at Wish, a cross border e-commerce marketplace. Rachel graduated from the Columbia University where she received a Master of Data Science and Peking University where she received a Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering. Why does she work on HeartByte? She thinks the world can be a bit boring and needs more imagination.
Xinyue Liang, Founder
Co-founder and CTO of HeartByte, which she started with Rachel Wang in 2023. Before founding HeartByte, Xinyue was Tech Lead software engineer at Google and data engineer at Meta. Xinyue graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University where she received a Master of Information System.
Company Launches
TL;DR: HeartByte is a community where people can write novels effortlessly using AI-assisted tools and share them.
Hey YC friends, we are Rachel and Xinyue building HeartByte!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnZnyAsnxes
👥 The team
🦸♀️Rachel: CEO. 8 years working with data and building product. ex-Chief Data Officer at Wish. ex-Columbia University. Blog writer with 40K followers.
🥷Xinyue: CTO. Tech lead at Instagram and Google. ex-Carnegie Mellon University. A fanfiction OG for the past 15 years.
😮💨 The Problem
Everyone wants to be a writer, but no one wants to ✍️ write a book 📚. Writing a book is hard— writers on average take 8-12 months to complete a 100,000-word novel. That’s too slow! For the rest of us non-writers, we have fleeting passions wanting to turn those interesting fantasies 🧚♂️ in our minds into stories. Most of the time, these fantasies remain in our brains 🧠, never shared with others. Because of that, there are fewer good stories in the world, which is why Harry Potter or Game of Thrones seem so precious.
But it doesn’t have to be this way.
🪄 The Solution
With HeartByte, we make it 10 times easier and faster to write fiction. 🤩 We build an effortless flow that guides a creator through writing an entire novel 💅. We help users overcome writer’s block ✌️, and provide editing support and workflow management. We enable users to spend more time imagining 👁 and less time writing word by word.
We want using HeartByte to be like having your personal writer's studio, where you can easily exchange ideas, get inspired, and complete each other's sentences with AI. Instead of the old long grind 🥱, writing a novel becomes easy and fun 🤗.
📚🔮 The Magic
Our users are loving ❤️ the product. We've seen users who previously published a chapter every five days now able to publish one chapter per day, with better writing!
📣 Our Ask
- Try our product at heartbyte.ai. Share your feedback with us rachel@heartbyte.ai!
- Share this post if you think someone might be interested in effortless creative writing.