Roy Lo

I’m building LifeInPhotos, an assistant that helps people easier to find and tell the stories already hiding in their photo libraries.

[Roy Lo @SamaritanRoy]

Hi, I’m Roy 👋

I’m an experienced product builder, and I’m learning to build in public.

Here’s my story so far, and why I’m starting again 👇

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@georgesttock Claude

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@averycode Hey Avery, thanks for sharing, really curious about the ROI of this investing, do you already have any experiement result that could sharing?

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While considering my next niche, to increase productivity and reduce screen time are always one of my personal goal.

So I spent some time go through main stream focus apps, surprise that many of them earn solid monthly money!

LMK if you're also interested in this analysis!

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After taking a few months exploring and trying different things, I have some new ideas to develop, thought it might be good to return on X.

Let's see whether I can maintain the streak this time.

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@Anima_Labs TUTO

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@WorldEverett That’s great and valuable practice! Thanks for sharing

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@icreatelife Wow this is cool! Will try this later. This could be also a great style to animate!

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@SDXLHQ Really like this! I like the Veo 3 a lot, and Google flow is a really great tool to use, simple and elegant. But I do think it still relatively expansive model 🥲

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@hieudinh_ A bomb with the countdown timer 💣 😆

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@billywoodward What platforms you’re using to distribute the video?

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Day 3 of exploring new ideas.

✅ Idea evolves: genAI interactive games for kid --> genAI bedtime stories for kid --> genAI fairy tale animation
✅ Done research on latest AI video generation tools
✨ Found some youtube channels are really successful in making kid stories
✨ Have more ideas on produce interesting animations for kid, want to try more experiments!

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Day 2 of exploring new ideas.

✅ Browsed @gummy_search: great product for Reddit topic research. Sad to see it shutting down next year due to the API issue.
☑️ Posted a few old ideas in startup communities: didn’t get much response, but still part of the process.
✅ Listened to a few @starter_story episodes: everyone’s journey is different, yet equally inspiring.
🚶‍♂️ Took a 3-hour walk to calm my mind: probably the best investment I made today.

Also discovered another founder story channel by Superwall, feels similar to Starter Story.
Has anyone here watched it? Curious how it compares.

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Hey founders, wanna to throw out few of my startup ideas in the past few months, would appreciate any feedback/roast/suggestions:

1. A product that gamify the social growth:
- Transform the posting/engagement strategy from a successful social account into a AI mentor
- AI mentor give daily quest to execute
- Visualize the growth, reward by virtual treasure or character related items

2. A journal app that can share diary with stranger anonymously
- "message in the bottle" digital version
- Use AI translation so people can overcome language barrier
- Write diary to earn credit, so you can buy the right to read others'

3. An app that help you connect with others
- have an AI to record the context when you think of someone
- after the count of thinking certain person reach to the threshold, AI compose the message based on the past context, ask your permit to send it.

4. An interactive adventure game that help parents tell better bed time story
- "diablo-like" adventure for kids
- A story prompt that read at bed time turned into a 10 mins adventure game for kids to play
- Turn your kids into the characters that explore the story

Welcome any idea bounce back, or simply state the facts. Thanks!

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@JoshuaIPark Would love to read it!

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@ycombinator @cladlabs Interesting, I really wonder at the end of day, did I really save time or I spend more time on not productive things 😅

[Roy Lo @SamaritanRoy]

Hey founders, wanna to throw out few of my startup ideas in the past few months, would appreciate any feedback/roast/suggestions:

1. A product that gamify the social growth:
- Transform the posting/engagement strategy from a successful social account into a AI mentor
- AI mentor give daily quest to execute
- Visualize the growth, reward by virtual treasure or character related items

2. A journal app that can share diary with stranger anonymously
- "message in the bottle" digital version
- Use AI translation so people can overcome language barrier
- Write diary to earn credit, so you can buy the right to read others'

3. An app that help you connect with others
- have an AI to record the context when you think of someone
- after the count of thinking certain person reach to the threshold, AI compose the message based on the past context, ask your permit to send it.

4. An interactive adventure game that help parents tell better bed time story
- "diablo-like" adventure for kids
- A story prompt that read at bed time turned into a 10 mins adventure game for kids to play
- Turn your kids into the characters that explore the story

Welcome any idea bounce back, or simply state the facts. Thanks!

[Roy Lo @SamaritanRoy]

Day 1 of finding new ideas.

Because of a family issue, I temporary lost the interest of developing. Hard reflections, doubts, and worry about future coming back to me.

Still trying to make some progress, I end up spending time on Reddit/Starter Story/TrustMRR to see how people find their successful ideas.

I found myself spend not enough time on market research and validate the idea before jumping to development. But I believe things never too late.

Don't know what would happened tomorrow, but I'll make progress, learn something, become better no matter what.

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@OhCobblers2That Hey, came across this today, curious about your experience using this service? Trying to find one good for myself.

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Spend all the morning time exploring Reddit.
It's actually a good way to distract myself from what happened in real life.

Even though I'm not planning to build things today, try to stay in the game and enhancing marketing skills to maintain the momentum.