HeartByte uses GenAI to make fiction writing easy and fun
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