A daily kid-friendly newspaper generator that creates a printable, two-page newspaper for young readers. Each issue includes age-appropriate news stories, local events, weather, fun facts, and a coloring page on the back.
- AI-generated news — Pulls real headlines and rewrites them for kids (ages 4–8) using Claude
- Local events — Fetches neighborhood events from community calendars
- Weather — Current conditions with a kid-friendly prompt
- Coloring page — Randomly selected from a library of uploaded illustrations, printed as the back page
- Print-first design — Optimized for clean, ink-efficient printing on a single double-sided sheet
- Configure your child's name, city, and neighborhood
- Click Generate to fetch today's news, events, and weather
- Click Print to print a two-page newspaper (front and back)
- React + TypeScript + Vite
- Tailwind CSS
- Lovable Cloud (database, storage, edge functions)
- Claude API for news generation
- Lovable AI for coloring page generation
The Tiny Times was created by Dan Fuchs, a dad in the Sunset in San Francisco, who had the original idea and wrote the original code.
MIT License