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The Curious Thing
Turn your kid's photo into a magical puzzle with AI
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Me and my wife are the makers of The Curious Thing. Our daughter is obsessed with puzzles and has a huge imagination so we wanted to put her into her own world in a puzzle she could build herself...of herself.
So we built this: you upload a photo, pick a magical world (fairy, astronaut, mermaid, cowboy and more), and an AI model paints your child as the hero of that scene. You approve a watermarked proof, then we print it as a real premium jigsaw puzzle and ship it to your door.
The fun engineering part: it's a face-preserving AI portrait pipeline wired to print-on-demand fulfillment, running entirely on Cloudflare Workers. The hardest problem was keeping the child's face recognizable while restyling everything around them into the fantasy world.
A couple of things I'd genuinely love feedback on:
- Which worlds would you want for your own kid?
- Would you want formats beyond puzzles (posters, story books)?
Happy to dig into the AI pipeline or the build with anyone. Thanks for checking it out 🧩
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About The Curious Thing on Product Hunt
“Turn your kid's photo into a magical puzzle with AI”
The Curious Thing was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #153 on the daily leaderboard. Turn your child into the hero of a magical world. Upload a photo, approve a proof, and we print a premium custom jigsaw puzzle. Free US shipping.
The Curious Thing was featured in Artificial Intelligence (473.1k followers), E-Commerce (41.6k followers) and Kids & Parenting (772 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 123.1k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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