I shipped an AI cartoon generator from Timor-Leste in 2 weeks — here's how (opens in new tab)

TL;DR — I built FurakToon, an AI app that turns a sentence into a beautiful anime or cartoon image in seconds. It speaks 21 languages with a Southeast-Asia focus, has a monthly free-credit system, and was built in ~2 weeks for the Mind the Product "Everyone Ships Now" hackathon. This is the build-in-public story. Why I built this I'm building from Timor-Leste 🇹🇱. Furak means "beautiful" in Tetum, our language — so the app is FurakToon: beautiful cartoons. That one constraint shaped the whole ...