AdShot — Paste any URL, get ad creatives for 13 platforms in 30 seconds
Hey IH! I've been lurking and commenting here for a bit, and figured it's time to share what I'm building.
The problem: Every founder and small business owner I've talked to knows they should be running ads. But there's this massive gap between "I need ads" and actually having the design skills, creative direction, and platform knowledge to produce them. Hiring a designer is expensive. Canva templates are generic. And most people just don't run ads at all, leaving growth on the table.
What AdShot does: You paste any URL — your landing page, product page, Shopify store, whatever — and AdShot analyzes the content, branding, and imagery, then generates ready-to-post ad creatives for 13 different platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and more) in about 30 seconds. Not mockups. Not templates you have to customize. Actual ads with copy, visuals, and proper dimensions for each platform.
The tech behind it: We're using Claude for content analysis and copy generation, FLUX via fal.ai for image generation, and built the whole thing on Next.js 15 with Supabase. The AI doesn't just resize one image — it actually understands what makes an ad work on each platform and generates platform-specific creatives.
How we got here: I kept hearing the same thing from founders: "I know I need to run ads but I don't have time to design them." The first version was way too complicated. Then we watched 10 people try to use it and realized they just wanted to paste a URL and get something they could post immediately. So we killed half the features and focused on making that one flow incredibly fast and good.
Where we are now: Live at adshot.co with a free tier. Early users are generating ads and giving us feedback daily.
What I'd love from this community: Try it out and tell me what breaks or feels off. If you run ads, does the output match what performs well? What platforms should we prioritize?
Try it free: adshot.co
This is interesting because it tackles something a lot of founders run into after building — distribution becomes the bottleneck.
Generating creatives from an existing URL also feels like a smart constraint. Instead of starting from a blank page, you’re grounding the output in real product messaging, which probably helps avoid the “generic AI marketing copy” problem.
One thing I’d be curious about: how different are the creatives across platforms?
A lot of tools generate slightly reformatted versions of the same message, but each platform tends to reward very different styles (e.g., TikTok vs LinkedIn vs Google Display).
If you can actually adapt tone and positioning per platform, that feels like where the real value is.
Either way, I like the direction — anything that reduces the friction between “I built something” and “I can actually promote it” is valuable for indie founders.