Show HN: PixelRipple – AI ads agent for e-commerce(pixelripple.ai)

1 pointsby zxzxy19886 miesięcy temu7 comments

Show HN: PixelRipple – AI ads agent for e-commerce

https://www.pixelripple.ai/

I spent 6 weeks building www.pixelripple.ai, an AI ads agent for e-commerce. It discovers viral social ads, replicates their proven structure, and generates production-ready creatives at scale.

Background: I came from Microsoft doing algorithms/backend. Zero Node.js or frontend experience. Built this with Claude Code as my primary coding partner.

What I learned:

Week 1-2: AI is incredible for cold starts. Had a working tldraw canvas, Cloudflare Workers, image generation, and auth within hours.

Week 3-4: Hit the context window wall. Found 8 components with duplicate fetch() calls, 3 different credit validation implementations, and race conditions between Stripe webhooks. AI builds what you ask for right now - it doesn't think about the system.

Week 5-6: Partnered with an experienced engineer. He didn't write much new code - he deleted things. The codebase got smaller but more stable.

My productivity hack: 3 terminal windows with 2 Claude instances working on independent features while I review. Parallelization helps but multiplies the duplication problem.

Key insight: AI + experienced engineer = 10x. AI + inexperienced developer = 3x with debt.

Question for HN: How do you handle AI-assisted frontend work? AI can't see the UI. It doesn't notice a button is 2px off or spacing looks wrong on mobile. Any workflows that close this visual feedback loop?

Free to try www.pixelripple.ai. Codes HN50 (50% off, first 100) and HN20 (20% off, first 1000) if useful.

8 comments

ada19816 miesięcy temu

What are you using for the image and video generation?

Also, you are likely violating laws by generating fake customer testimonials with Claude, and it's certainly unethical.

zxzxy19886 miesięcy temu

That's a good point, it's generated by Claude but maybe I should use real ones (there are a couple but need to go thru the process which takes a while)

ada19816 miesięcy temu

Yes, just don’t have any at all or use real ones.

Peterz_shu6 miesięcy temu

I noticed that too; Do you mean in the "Real results, Real revenue" section on the website?

ada19816 miesięcy temu

Yes. “Mike Chen” and others are a dead giveaway for names Claude likes to use.

Peterz_shu6 miesięcy temu

Sounds great if it is dones right (I will start testing it soon)

What does the ai generate as in "creatives"? Is it ai-generated media, or just ai-directed?

zxzxy19886 miesięcy temu

Thanks for trying out! It's pure ai generated. The goal is that you just give it a small prompt and it should search what's going on and give you nice visual design or video. LMK if there's any problem when trying out!

zxzxy19886 miesięcy temu