MIRA · AI story creator

1,847 photos. 3 countries.
One story.

by Simon, developer of MIRA · 6 min read

Three months in Southeast Asia. 1,847 photos. My family wanted to see the trip. Nobody wanted to scroll through an album.

I built MIRA Stories so a trip becomes a story they read to the end.

Elephant in a misty river in Thailand
Angkor Wat at sunrise in Cambodia
Koh Phi Phi island in Thailand
Monk walking through rice fields in Vang Vieng, Laos
Koh Samui island in Thailand
Tuk-tuk in Bangkok at night
Longtail boats on a tropical beach in Thailand
Wat Arun temple in Bangkok
Fresh coconut on a beach in Thailand
Pagodas at Doi Inthanon near Chiang Mai

📷 Before: 1,847 photos

MIRA writes · A few minutes later

Part 1

Thailand, Twice

Part 2

Laos, North to South

Part 3

Cambodia, Slower Than Planned

One story in three parts. Tap one to read it live.

Step 1

One part per country

I made one story per country and uploaded all of its photos, blurry shots and all: Thailand 1,000, Laos 391, Cambodia 456.

Plus one line of context, so names and places come out right. Then I pressed Create story.

Step 2

What MIRA picked

A few minutes later the first story, Thailand, was there. From 1,000 photos MIRA picked 34, grouped them into 4 chapters and wrote a caption for every one.

It left out the blurry ones and most of the near-identical shots, roughly what I would have done myself, just without the evening it takes.

Step 3

See it, then change it

These are the three parts, exactly as they went out. Scroll through, try a different look, or open one in the editor and change captions, photos or the order. Nothing you do there is saved.

Each story got its own look: Editorial for Thailand, Terra for the mountains and rivers of Laos, Cinema for the slower, quieter two weeks in Cambodia.

mirastories.app/simon/thailand-twice
Read the full story
Try a look
Edit this story yourself

Step 4

Not another album link

A shared album shows where you were. A story tells them what it was like: the moments in order, with the words I would have used at the dinner table.

I pasted the link into our family chat. It opens like a magazine, on any phone, with no app and no account. And the replies are about moments, not a thumbs-up.

Step 5

Three parts, one story

Once all three countries were done, I put them in a collection: one page with a cover and every part in order. The family chat got one more link instead of three.

Open the collection and see for yourself.

Step 6

And yes, Dad, it prints

Every story is also a PDF with real book pages, laid out for print. Flip through the Thailand story below, exactly as it comes out of the printer. A printed photo book is next on the list.

Cover

Step 7

And one more for Instagram

From the same story there is a carousel in the same look, plus an image for an Instagram story with the link. Swipe through the Thailand part here.

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simon

Thailand, Twice

Wat Arun just before sunset. The guardians at the gate were the first thing I photographed in Thailand.

My first tuk tuk. Too fast, too loud, and I could not stop grinning all the way to Chinatown.

This day ended on a river boat, just as the sun went down over the city.

A Garuda in a Chiang Mai temple garden, guarding a doorway I never got the name of.

Phuket's old town was the surprise: pastel shophouses and the best coffee of the trip.

The full story

Thailand, Twice

Link in bio

Made with MIRA Stories

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simon Thailand, Twice · The full story: link in bio

What I would tell a friend before they try it

  1. Upload whole folders. Don't pre-pick. Choosing the best shots is MIRA's job, not yours.
  2. Write one line of context. Where you were and for how long, and who was there. That is how names and places end up right in the captions.
  3. Read it once before you send it. MIRA gets most things right, but only you know which beach was which. Fixing a caption takes seconds.