Show HN: Viral.ad – Turn any product URL into a UGC video ad in minutes (viral.ad)

I kept paying $150-350 per UGC video, waiting a week, and still getting mediocre hooks. So I built an alternative.

Paste a product URL -- AI scrapes it, writes the script, generates a UGC-style video with actor, voiceover and subtitles. Under 5 minutes. Stack: Next.js, TypeScript, ElevenLabs (voiceover), Vercel, Stripe, Resend.

$1 trial.

Would love feedback on output quality and the pricing model.

Happy to answer technical questions about the pipeline.

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shawntwin 4mo ago ↗

nice to know, it's better to have free trial

cjdesignstudio 4mo ago ↗

Appreciate the feedback. Deliberately went with $1 instead of free -- wanted to see if people value it enough to pay even a token amount. Free trials attract a lot of tire kickers and I'd rather have 10 paying users who are serious than 100 signups who never generate a video. That said, still early and open to being wrong about this. What would make you try it at $1?