From a WhatsApp message to a finished book.
There’s no app to download and nothing new to learn. Dastaan works entirely over WhatsApp, on whatever phone they already use every day. Here’s exactly what happens, from the first message to the finished book on the shelf.
It starts on WhatsApp
The first prompt arrives as a WhatsApp message — a simple question to begin with. They reply with a voice note, the way they'd talk to a grandchild on the phone. That's all it takes to get going.
Dastaan gets to know them
As the voice notes keep coming, their conversations with Dastaan add up to more than just questions and answers. Dastaan comes to understand how they think and what matters to them, and seeks out the stories that say the most about who they are.
Guided through every chapter of life
From childhood and family to the years that shaped them, their career, and the life they've built since, Dastaan gently guides them through each stage — all the way to where they are today, and the lessons they want to pass on.
It becomes a written chapter
Their spoken words are shaped into a polished, readable chapter — never just a raw transcript. Every chapter stays linked to the original recording, so the finished book can be heard as well as read.
The family follows along
As new chapters come in, the family can follow the story as it's built — a running record that grows with every voice note they record.
It becomes a book
After several months of conversations, the finished chapters are brought together into a beautifully designed, printed hardcover book — organized to read like the story of a life, not a pile of questions and answers.
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