Vibe [vahyb]
noun.
: Often vibes a general feeling or sensation that someone gets or has about something.
: Sometimes vibes the character, quality, or atmosphere of a place, situation, etc.;
: connection; rapport.
Quick Recap:
Stay in touch w/ Friends
We are building a simple v0.1 of BetterFriend app by using WhatsApp Chatbot to remind people their loved one’s birthday with AI.
Don’t be normal
The modern websites are quite boring:
https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/
They follow a similar pattern of a landing page to grab attention, lots of text of explaining what they do, and who is behind it.
BetterFriend is about staying in touch with friends - I needed to show the importance of friendships. Not a boring predictable website.
I cam across this template by accident on v0 and I thought it’s a cool concept to be able to scroll up and down the website to watch the video move frame by frame:
https://v0.dev/community/custom-video-player-7Gxn5N0ohWn
It’s simple and interactive. I had an idea to replace these characters (They are from one of my favorite anime “Death Note”) to an original character that I made.
Here’s what I did:
I took a screen shot of one of the characters and asked ChatGPT to describe the prompt that can be used to create this character:
I tested it - exact copy and paste:
Pretty damn good for first try!
Then I went ahead and tweaked the prompt for what I wanted without changing too much:
That plan actually became making 2 original characters interacting with each other. Showing friendship in action. Here we have 1 happy character Ken and 1 unhappy character Shun.
I flipped the sad one so they can be facing each other. You can do it under Preview → Tools → Flip Horizontal:
I asked ChatGPT to combine them both in a single photo.
Then I went to Google VEO3 and uploaded this photo and asked it to animate it:
”The boy from left is inviting the boy sitting down to come join him with fingers pointing towards a direction and the sad boy on the right turned his frown into a smile and shows that he is happy.”
The end result after about 5-6 tries became this:
The entire process is free.
ChatGPT can generate these images for free. Google VEO3 can generate the videos for free.
I hope you will all go and try this process at least once!
Taste
With the internet being so full of content today, it’s so important to stand out in our own way. How do we stand out? Through our own experiences. For me, even the thought of wanting to create these characters come from my childhood living expereinces in Japan.
I was Ken, the boy with the bug net. Running around in the rice fields, asking friends to come along and catch bugs with me. Pokemon the game was inspired by these beautiful Japanese childhood experiences of catching bugs and living in the nature. I am grateful to have lived through it.
Be inspired. Go create. Don’t wait.
See you tomorrow!
(⚡️BetterFriend Project Day 8 - 38)