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 wanted to finally share what I've been building.

The problem: Every founder I talked to said the same thing — "I know I should be running ads, but I don't have time to design them and I can't afford a designer." They'd spend hours in Canva trying to make something passable, or just skip paid acquisition entirely because the creative production bottleneck was too painful.

What AdShot does: You paste any URL — your landing page, product page, Shopify store, whatever — and AdShot uses AI to analyze your brand, product, and messaging, then generates ready-to-post ad creatives for 13 platforms (Meta, Google, TikTok, LinkedIn, X, Pinterest, and more) in about 30 seconds. No design skills needed. No briefs. No back-and-forth with designers. Just paste and go.

The tech behind it: We're using Claude (Sonnet) for copy generation and brand analysis, FLUX/fal.ai for image generation, and a custom rendering pipeline that formats everything to each platform's exact specs. The stack is Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Supabase, and Stripe. Built the whole thing as a solo technical founder.

What I learned building this: The biggest insight was that nobody searches for "AI ad generation." What they actually feel is: "I need to run ads but making them look good is a whole separate job I don't have bandwidth for." Once I stopped talking about the AI and started talking about that feeling, people got it immediately. Another lesson — time-to-first-output is everything. If someone can paste a URL and see a real ad they could post in under a minute, they're hooked. If they have to configure settings, pick templates, make design choices first, they bounce. We killed a ton of features to keep that first experience frictionless.

Where we are: Early stage, free tier available, actively looking for feedback from founders and marketers who are running (or want to run) paid ads.

Try it free: https://adshot.co

Would love to hear from anyone who's dealt with the ad creative bottleneck — what's your current workflow for making ads? And for other AI SaaS builders, how are you thinking about the balance between AI automation and giving users control?