LiveCultural Tech

Ayodun

Say their name right.

ayodun.com
Ayodun Product

The Problem

Why This Exists

Generic video tools mangle African names, and getting someone's grandmother's name wrong is worse than sending nothing at all. A template with a name dropped into a blank is not honor, it is a mail merge.

The Solution

What We Built

Ayodun records how you say the name, then builds a finished vertical video around it — their real story, in the tradition you choose, blessed out loud. Before anything ships, the finished audio is checked to confirm the name actually came out right. If it did not, delivery stops and we say so.

Capabilities

Key Features

Six ways to honor someone — Song, Prayer, Oriki, Hype, Radio Show and Storyteller
The name captured in your own voice, then verified in the finished audio before delivery
Song genres spanning afrobeats, gospel, fuji, amapiano, highlife and R&B
Prayer in a Christian, Muslim, or neutral register
Multi-voice tributes that gather recorded messages from friends and family
Photos optional — a designed cover, an animated portrait, or a montage cut to the beat
A free watermarked preview, with HD download and a hosted tribute page on unlock
Regional pricing, from CA$20 down to $7 in Nigeria

Technology

Tech Stack

TypeScriptNext.js 15React 19PostgreSQLDrizzle ORMClaudeGemini TTSRemotionffmpegStripeCloudflare R2Railway

Architecture

System Design

01

A six-stage pipeline — profile, script, audio, pronunciation gate, render, publish — run in-process in development or claimed off a Postgres queue by a worker in production

02

A cross-vendor pronunciation gate, so the system that speaks the name is never the system that grades it

03

Every voice, music and script provider behind one interface, switchable at runtime without a redeploy

04

Remotion rendering vertical video through headless Chromium, with ffmpeg for mixing, poster frames and status cuts

05

A single Dockerfile branching on a service variable to run as either web or worker

06

Edge geolocation driving regional pricing through Stripe adaptive checkout

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