Launch · · Ben

Bedtime was the part of the day I dreaded most.

Not because I didn't want to be there — but because I'd end up doom-scrolling for twenty minutes trying to find something to read. By the time I found it, the moment was gone.

I built StoryWeave because bedtime was becoming the part of the day I dreaded most. Not because I didn't want to be there — but because I'd end up doom-scrolling for twenty minutes trying to find something, and by the time I found it my kid was either already asleep or wound up from the screen. The connection I was reaching for was gone.

So we built something different. StoryWeave turns the day's moments into a personalized ten-minute bedtime story, narrated by a warm voice and paced for sleep. You capture the small things — the beetle on the walk home, the friend who shared a snack, the tower that finally didn't fall — and the story that night is about them, in your child's world, with their name.

We didn't invent this from a deck. The research on bedtime storytelling is striking: regular bedtime routines add an average of +20 minutes of sleep per night, and a 30-minute shared story reduces stress biomarkers by 59% while raising bonding hormones 9× — the physiological signature of deep, restorative sleep. This is what we've been after all along. We just forgot it was sitting there.

A moment from this week

Yesterday my daughter found a beetle on the walk home from school. She held it in her palm for three blocks, named it Captain Stripe, and then put it carefully on a leaf so it could "go find its family." Tonight's story is about a beetle knight who guards a tiny kingdom under the porch — and the cat who has to learn to respect the treaty. She didn't know it was about her day. She just knew it was for her.

That's it. That's the whole product.

Try it tonight

The first story is free. If it lands the way we hope it does — if the lights stay off a little longer, and the questions come a little slower, and you get that quiet "one more" — you'll know. And if you want one every night, Pro is $9.99/month.

Free to start · $9.99/mo for every night

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