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Created an original AI-generated commercial marketing visual using advanced prompt engineering and creative direction. Designed for branding, social media advertising, and digital campaigns with a focus on premium composition, realistic lighting, and high-converting visual storytelling.
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Hey Contra 👋 I've been heads-down building Promptly, and I'd love your eyes on it before our launch.
From my time delivering over 20 software projects as a tech lead, I realized the biggest bottleneck in building an app isn't the code itself. It is communication. Founders speak in ideas, and developers speak in strict logic.
Here is how Promptly works. You just describe your app idea in plain English. The AI actually pushes back, asks the hard questions, catches the vague bits, and automatically writes a developer-ready blueprint as you chat.
The goal is simple. When you hand this document to a developer, the next thing you get back is an accurate, fixed-price quote. No more wasting days trying to draft technical specifications and sitting through endless rounds of discovery calls just to get on the same page.
Instead of staring at a blank document, you get three tools that update in real-time:
The Pushback Chat: It refuses to just nod along. If you say "make it fast and secure," it helps you define exactly what that means. It hunts down edge cases before you ever pay someone to fix them.
The Visual Map: A live, interactive diagram showing exactly how your features connect. It catches logic flaws and missing steps before any code is written.
The Living Blueprint: An auto-generated, professional project spec that exports straight to Notion, Linear, or PDF.
Plus, it gives your idea a "Developer-Readiness Score" out of 100 so you know if it is actually ready to build. It even recommends the best tech stack based on your specific budget and complexity.
The core engine and all of these interactive features are fully functional right now, but I am still smoothing out the final rough edges. I am aiming for a public launch in about three weeks.
Where I need your help. I have three quick questions:
Where would you want to export your project blueprint, beyond Notion, Linear, or PDF?
What is the biggest headache you face right now when trying to explain your ideas to developers?
What feels missing? The blind spots are the most valuable to me right now.
Any feedback on new features, improvements, or things I should kill entirely would be hugely appreciated. Drop a comment below.
Thank you for taking a look 🙏
building solo, in public
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This is a very interesting concept! Where did you design the UI/UX? I feel like a better choice of font is still out there. Overall good work and clean UI. 🔥
Project Description:
"Still Water" - an animated short film and original music about a boy who throws a stone at his own smiling reflection, then sinks willingly into the water to chase the version of himself he wishes he could be. The twist: the "lake" was his tears on a kitchen table the whole time.
Process Steps:
Concept & Music First. I started by asking: What kind of animated film do I wish existed? I landed on self-acceptance, something that feels like Song of the Sea meets a music video. I wrote the song concept first, inspired by Aurora's "Runaway" and Ariana Grande's "Past Life," then generated the track on MELIUS to see if the vibe would land. It did.
Visual Style Development. I built the visual identity using GPT Image 2, generating character reference sheets and environment concepts.
Storyboard Generation. I mostly generated 8-panel storyboard shots in GPT Image 2, attaching the character and environment references to every generation for consistency. Each panel is a keyframe for the animation.
Animation with Seedance 2.0. I fed each storyboard panel into Seedance as a reference image, with detailed motion prompts describing body language, camera movement, ambient life, and lighting.
The workflow touched multiple node types: text generation for concept and lyrics, GPT Image 2 for storyboards and reference sheets, Seedance 2.0 for animation, and ElevenLabs for the original song.
Feedback on Melius:
The agent was genuinely useful for refining ideas I would sometimes describe a rough concept and it would help me structure it, catch inconsistencies, and suggest improvements. The multi-node workflow (text → image → video) made the pipeline feel connected rather than fragmented.
One thing I would love to see: A "Question Mode" toggle, where I can ask the agent something without it making changes to my project. Sometimes I just wanted advice or a second opinion, not an edit. A simple toggle between "Plan/Ask" and "Execute" would make the creative back-and-forth feel more natural.
Overall, it was fun. Building a complete animated short with original music in a few days, using Melius agent as a creative partner rather than a replacement, felt like a glimpse of where filmmaking is going.
It leads me my childhood~
Thank you!
Honestly, I feel my day would improve if this little guy lived on my phone dashboard.
How can you be sad with this little one keeping you company? lol
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