I Built an AI That Turns Side Projects Into Stories That Get You Hired
Last Updated on April 18, 2025 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Mukundan Sankar
Originally published on Towards AI.
Upload your code. Get a narrative. Make your GitHub finally speak for you.
If you’re like most developers, your GitHub is full of useful, clever, maybe even genius little scripts. But what happens when someone asks: “So, what does this do?” — and you freeze?
I built something to fix that. It’s called Code to Story — an app that takes any .py or .txt file and turns it into a compelling narrative you can use as a:
Blog postCase studyLinkedIn shareInterview explainerClient pitch
And it works with just one upload.
The idea for this app came straight from real life — and real frustration.
I was asked by my boss to explain some code I had written. Not a blog. Not a product pitch. Just: “Walk me through what this does.”
But if you’re like me — you’ve been deep in the weeds, juggling edge cases and APIs — sometimes it’s hard to zoom out and talk like a human again.
We’re engineers. We build things. But explaining those things? That’s a whole different muscle.
And this moment made me realize something:
Most devs can write complex logic. But few can explain it simply and clearly.
That’s what this app is really about.
It’s for the engineer who:
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