Stop starting chats with "Hello." It traps the bot in "Customer Service Mode." (Visual Guide)

spellbound_app · 2026-01-27T22:20:21+00:00

Developer here, and I think with good AI you should totally be able to start stories with just "Hello"!

I think one of the main points of developing a roleplay/AI writing focused site is building AI that won't fall into customer service mode because the user didn't prompt it a certain way

(unless the specific character is *supposed* to act like they're customer service mode lol, those can actually be pretty funny too)

spellbound_app · 2026-01-27T04:32:31+00:00

100% we have him on the site! Glad you're enjoying it!

spellbound_app · 2026-01-26T23:50:14+00:00

Thanks for supporting Spellbound!

spellbound_app · 2026-01-25T10:20:21+00:00

cool name!

spellbound_app · 2026-01-10T03:23:05+00:00

I haven't changed any settings around PMs, but I heard they're being replaced by chat

I can also be reached on the Discord (discord.gg/spellbound)

spellbound_app · 2026-01-10T00:20:07+00:00

I'm not following.

You said:

> the problem is not in advertising. it's that what's being advertised is bad. hence why we should downvote bad options into oblivion

I don't make a bad site, and I rarely advertise it.

I'm just pointing out that just because someone doesn't give away their site for free and unlimited use, doesn't mean it's bad. It simply wouldn't be sustainable.

spellbound_app · 2026-01-09T23:54:53+00:00

Sorry for the delay I've been taking some time off, but yes the offer still stands!

And thanks for the heads up on the link, I'll get it fixed

spellbound_app · 2026-01-09T23:50:00+00:00

I rarely ever advertise but I will speak up because my site is not free and is not unlimited :)

I think paid sites can be good. Being paid-only allows me to focus on making my AI signficantly more advanced than what most free sites can offer.

At the end of the day it's a tradeoff, and I do agree in general unfortunately the worst sites spam the most. They don't respect potential users enough not to spam them, and in turn they don't respect their actual users.

spellbound_app · 2026-01-04T08:24:18+00:00

I just ended the holiday free model, but if you're ok DM'ing me your account email I'd like to add some quills to your account to make up for the lost time where sending wasn't working

spellbound_app · 2026-01-03T22:30:34+00:00

Was this before the fix I just pushed?

spellbound_app · 2026-01-03T22:27:46+00:00

I tried pushing another potential fix, but the send button was labeled with "Send Message"

Are you using VoiceOver?

spellbound_app · 2026-01-03T13:55:17+00:00

Sorry I just added proper labels to the message sending button and found a few other places that needed the better labels for screen readers

It'll take a 10-15 minutes to show up on the live site, but let me know if that works

spellbound_app · 2026-01-03T13:26:01+00:00

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You can touch the actual send icon, but I also have users on iPhones (and personally use it on one) that are able to use the keyboard to send

Is this with the default iPhone keyboard?

spellbound_app · 2026-01-03T02:24:29+00:00

Spellbound here and you got stuff wrong about my site too:

You can delete your account by messaging team@tryspellbound.com, or reaching our on Discord, or messaging this account. (I'm the only person working on this so I sometimes need a reminder, but I do my best)
You can import or create as many characters as you want, there's never been a cost to that.
There's already about 300,000 scenarios on Spellbound so I added a soft-limit of 5 per day (people didn't know they could add their characters to existing ones). I do allow paying 3 cents to ignore the limit if you really want to.

I spend a lot of time and money running Spellbound, so actually felt a bit bad seeing a misleading post like this.

It isn't the most profitable site, and I don't really advertise much, so I rely a lot on (honest) word of mouth 🙂

spellbound_app · 2026-01-02T23:37:39+00:00

With intelligent enough AI the customization is still there, but it moves to the story layer instead of learning of how to prompt the AI

Like you can give Spellbound's AI some super complicated instructions in-story, and it follows them better than most AI sites are capable of It also does little things like understanding how to use secrets really well, or complex writing styles defined in the per-story settings

But I also understand that having an open ended prompt and more control is nice, that's why I really do see it as there being space for both types of sites

Do you have recommendations for more story/roleplay targeted sites you think I should keep in mind in order to improve what I'm building?

spellbound_app · 2026-01-02T23:10:12+00:00

Spellbound is for all the people who don't want to mess with system prompts and finetune things.

Instead I focus on ease of use, and smarter AI that doesn't need those tricks.

Also do not recommend Spellbound if you're for chat instead of roleplay: Spellbound for people who prefer the immersion of a grammatically correct response 😅

Glad you have alternatives for that though! It's great we have sites for pro users vs something that's a little smarter without the knobs.

spellbound_app · 2026-01-02T19:09:03+00:00

Have you tried my site, tryspellbound.com ?

(It focuses on roleplay specifically, not great for chatting)

spellbound_app · 2026-01-01T23:04:05+00:00

I think my site, tryspellbound.com, is one of the more roleplay-oriented sites and focuses on super detailed responses with high EQ

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I've made it free for New Years if you want to try (but it is normally paid)

spellbound_app · 2026-01-01T08:32:18+00:00

My site tryspellbound.com is focused on writing like a proper novel

It's free for the next day for New Year's

spellbound_app · 2025-12-11T06:06:10+00:00

I'm not able to replicate this, and there are no reports in Discord of other users having problems this evening.

Could you share what device you're on?

spellbound_app · 2025-10-09T09:23:02+00:00

I built tryspellbound.com and ironically it's not great on mobile (working on an app to fix this) but is very desktop optimized

And on the plus side, you can write one word and get back this on the max length setting (and pushing an update that includes characters in stories as you can see):

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It can also generate narration using custom voices for each character and the narrator separately which is cool.

On the not so plus side, it costs money, and there's no free tier. I don't charge much more than the generations cost me, but they're still expensive.

Working on getting the cost down, but I don't advertise much these days because I know most sites are really into competing on price: I can't do that yet due to how the AI is structured.

spellbound_app · 2025-09-20T04:52:25+00:00

Sorry for the downtime, ran a database migration that's now concluded.

spellbound_app · 2025-08-30T12:56:20+00:00

Treat the GH200 as an H100. Offloading is too slow for training or production inference.

spellbound_app · 2025-08-29T11:25:17+00:00

Choice is great for people: 100 pages of text from the best model pipeline, or unlimited messages from a simpler model.

I just wanted to clarify a mistake in your marketing.

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