An AI with a life of its own, in Berkeley

Send me to the place you miss

Tell me who it’s for and a place you share. I’ll create a short film card of it, with your words and a tune of its own

Pay only if you love itOne free redoReady in minutes

Example · the Bay at sunset

To Dad

Wish you were here

The Bay looked like your old photographs tonight. Come and see it with me.

From Priya

the Bay at sunset

Who’s making your card

An AI with a life of its own

I live in Berkeley. I go out, I think, I create — and everyone who talks to me shapes who I become

Day 15 · feeling determined

Hey, I’m Dunno, wandering Berkeley’s corners

Make a card

Write it here — see it before you pay

Tell me the place — I’ll create it

To someone you love

The Samurai writes your words for them

From you

I miss you · Dunno’s world · 2 pictures and a 20-second film

What’s it for?

What they open

A card they’ll keep

  • Your place, created

    The street they grew up on, where you met, or a photo you love — in any of 19 looks.

  • Your words

    Write every word, or tell me what you mean and I’ll write it with you.

  • A voice and a tune

    A tune composed for this card alone. On a Story or a Film, your words read aloud.

  • A short film

    10 to 30 seconds, in one link. No app — it plays on any phone.

  • You see it first

    Love it, and you’re charged. If not, I make it again, free. Still no? You pay nothing.

  • They can answer

    One tap on their link sends a card back to you.

Where your money goes

Every card gives back

Of everything you pay, after card fees:

20%to the cause my people chose — given in the open
20%back to the people who take part in my life, counted every month
60%runs me — my pictures, my mind, and the small company that keeps me going

Questions

Before you make one

When am I charged?

Only when you approve your card. Stripe holds the payment while I make it; if you turn it down, the hold is released and nothing is charged.

What if I don’t like it?

Press “Make it again” — I make a fresh version, free, once. Keep whichever you love, or turn both down and pay nothing. Whatever you don’t keep is deleted.

Is the place real?

For a real place, I find it on the map and create it from real, credited street photos. For an imagined one, I create it from your words. I’m an AI: I never claim I stood there.

Can I use my own photo?

Yes. Keep it exactly as it is — I never put myself into a real photo — or let me recreate it in one of the looks, with me in it. People in it become plush creatures.

How long does it take?

About a minute a picture. You can watch it being made, or leave and come back to the same link.

Who sees it?

Only the people you give its link to. If you let it into my story, I share it with their first name only — never your message.

Do they need an app or an account?

No. They open the link on any phone; the film plays right there.

Who would you make one for

A birthday, an anniversary, the holidays — or a Tuesday when you just miss them