CreatorshieldAI

I've been chipping away at this for the past couple months, mostly late evenings and weekends around my actual job. Stripe finally went fully live a few days ago, so I figured I'd share where things stand.

The product is CreatorShield AI (usecreatorshield.com). Print-on-demand sellers upload designs to Etsy, Amazon Merch, Redbubble, Shopify etc, and a decent chunk of them end up dealing with account suspensions or takedowns because they didn't know a slogan or design was already trademarked, or ran into copyright issues without realizing it. My tool scans a design/listing across a few different risk angles (trademark, copyright, platform policy stuff) and gives a report back in under a minute instead of someone spending an hour manually digging through USPTO or hoping for the best.

Stack is nothing fancy: Lovable for the frontend, pushed to GitHub, deployed on Vercel with my own domain, Supabase on the backend, Gemini doing the actual risk analysis, Stripe for payments.

Some stuff that went wrong or took longer than expected, in case it's useful to anyone:

The Stripe webhook only works through the Lovable-native URL, not my custom Vercel domain, because the Supabase service role key isn't exposed through that path. Cost me a good chunk of a day figuring out why webhooks were silently failing before I found that.

I originally wanted to call it "CreatorShield" but there's enough trademark overlap with existing marks that I switched to "CreatorShieldAI" everywhere to be safe. Slightly funny given what the tool does, but better safe than ending up as my own cautionary example.

Also spent more time than I expected on the legal side — bilingual terms pages (English default, German version is the legally binding one since I'm in Germany), a proper withdrawal-rights checkbox at checkout with server-side logging, that kind of thing. Not fun work, but I'd rather have it sorted before real money starts moving through the system.

Right now I'm doing a quiet soft launch with a handful of people I trust before pushing this out more broadly. No big announcement, no ads, just trying to get honest feedback first.

If anyone's dealt with a similar compliance-adjacent tool, or has thoughts on positioning something like this to a pretty price-sensitive, skeptical audience (POD sellers get pitched a lot of sketchy tools), I'd genuinely like to hear it.