I built an AI product photo studio for e-commerce sellers
Hey Indie Hackers! Amazon and Etsy sellers pay $400+ for a product shoot, wait weeks, and still have no infographics or promo video. So I built ReCardEx — one upload gives you: → Sales-ready studio photo optimized for the platform → Marketplace infographic with spec callouts → Promo video for TikTok/Reels No subscription. Pay per image. Free to try. Would love your honest feedback 🙏 https://recardex.com
Nice niche. Product photo tools are a good fit for AI because the pain is obvious and visual quality is easy for customers to judge.
One launch thing worth sanity checking: do not let image generation cost scale faster than revenue. A lot of AI apps ship with "one click generate" flows that are friendly to users and brutal on the API bill.
Before pushing traffic, it is worth adding:
1. per-user generation limits
2. file size limits
3. abuse checks on public endpoints
4. server-side calls only for paid APIs
5. basic logs that show cost per successful output
That stuff is not glamorous, but it buys you time to learn.