Wuri: Read fiction stories as immersive visual novels

tl;dr: Fiction readers are quickly gravitating towards visual stories, but the current selection isn’t enough to satisfy their appetite. Expanding the selection is difficult for existing platforms because it takes at least thirty man days to launch a one-hour-long visual story. Wuri makes this instantaneous by using AI to transform text stories on the web into visual novels in real time, offering our readers an endless library. Check out our app on Android or iOS!

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Hi everyone, we are Akshay and Pratik. We have been friends for 12 years and spent 10 months in 2023 building visual stories (we did everything from writing the plots to creating assets and launching on our app). The problems and the opportunities we saw during that journey made us start Wuri.

The Problem

Fiction readers worldwide are spending more time and money on visual stories, but the current selection isn’t enough to satisfy their appetite.

• Increasing demand: Webtoon is the largest visual story player with 80Mn+ global MAU, ~$1.7Bn annual revenue, 30%+ y-o-y growth
• But very limited selection vis-a-vis text stories: In the past 20 years, Webtoon creators have created about 1Mn titles, while on platforms like Wattpad (text web novels), more than 500Mn stories have been written in the same time frame.

Expanding the selection is difficult for existing platforms because even with the latest genAI tools, it takes about thirty man-days to create a one-hour-long visual story.

• And without genAI tools, it takes about 300 man-days and a lot of skill to create a one-hour-long visual story.

✨ Our Solution

Wuri is a fiction story-reading app that uses AI to transform text stories on the web into visual novels in real time. Our visual novels have bite-sized stories with beautiful characters, background images & videos, and audio. Our tech lets us provide our users with an endless library of amazing visual novels, and they have showered us with a lot of love and usage.

A glimpse of our app!

🙏 Asks

a. Download our app on Android or iOS! Currently, we’re live with bite-sized text with contextual & beautiful backgrounds. Share your feedback with us at founders@wuri.ai.

b. Share this post! This will help us discover more users who might enjoy reading fiction stories on Wuri.