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👋🏽 Hey Steve! As discussed, we would love to collaborate with you on hosting an event for Lentil in October, as well as explore other ways to work together! I (Weiwei) have included more context on what we are building, and the project details. Let me know if you have any additional questions in the meantime, otherwise I’ll see you on Monday!
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🌱 What is Lentil
Lentil is a new kind of AI camera app that transform your photos into your favorite anime and cartoon universes. Before Lentil, people couldn’t visualize their imaginations instantly. With Lentil, people will be able to create photos that hint at alternate universe they’re fond of, these imaginations become artifacts for discussions and for hobby groups to form.
Over the past decades, how we express and connect through a visual culture assisted by camera has been evolving: Instagram lets you see people’s lives, Snapchat lets you see people’s authentic moments, TikTok lets you see people’s creative ideas, Lentil lets you see people’s visual imaginations. We at Lentil are peeling back further and zooming into people’s deeper emotionality and the society’s visual culture compulsion.
🥅 Overall goals for this fall —
- Lentil doesn’t have much of an irl community nor an online presence yet! We’d love to start introducing Lentil to friends and casual anime fans by creating a young, energetic, and anime/gameing encoded meetup.
- We want to empower everyday people to visualize their imaginations, and be more playful with their surroundings! While Lentil is an AI camera, the emphasis won’t necessarily be on AI, it’s about blending their reality with imagination, all from their phone, and connecting with old and new friends who share similar obsessions.
- Specifically, we want to experiment and understand the demographic that’d really enjoy Lentil in its earliest form. This means, experiment with building out online and irl presence with various casual creator communities, and ultimately reaching 1000 blended photos on Lentil so we have a small amount of real content to start identifying patterns with.
💌 Deliverables —
- A meetup in October where we bring together a group of [___], we will want to decide jointly whether Lentil should be a focal point for the event or not. I’d love to see proposals from you on this
- Testing out story angles on various subreddits to share out Lentil. Please refer to the page below with our learnings from posting on Reddit this summer
- Experimenting and building out Lentil’s online presence through Instagram reels and cross-posting them to TikTok shorts
🌐 Vibes inspo