I Built an AI That Turns Side Projects Into Stories That Get You Hired

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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