<p><b>Startup description</b></p><p>My startup is an AI-powered product photography and listing tool built for Etsy and small e-commerce sellers. A seller uploads one ordinary product photo and the tool generates studio-quality lifestyle images plus a complete, SEO-optimised Etsy listing title, description, and tags in under a minute.</p><p>I built it after noticing that handmade and print-on-demand sellers lose sales not because of their product, but because of poor photos and weak listing copy. Professional product photography costs $50–200 per shoot; my platform does it for a few dollars in credits.</p><p>The product is fully built, live, and processing real paying customers today.</p><p><b>Key highlights:<b></b></b></p><ul> <li>Annual revenue: $96 ARR</li> <li>Monthly revenue: $8MRR</li> <li>Annual profit: $85</li> <li>Business margin: ~85%+</li> <li>Total signups: 20</li> <li>Monthly running cost: ~AI API credits only depends on users</li> </ul> <p><b>Team</b></p><p>Solo founder. I handle product, engineering, design, and support end-to-end. There are no employees, contractors, or co-founders, so there is nothing to unwind - the handover is clean.</p><p><b>Tech Stack</b></p><ul> <li>Frontend/Backend: Next.js 16 (App Router, Turbopack) with TypeScript</li> <li>Styling: Tailwind CSS</li> <li>Database: MongoDB</li> <li>Auth: Clerk</li> <li>Payments &amp; subscriptions: Polar (credit-based system already implemented)</li> <li>AI: FLUX Kontext for image generation, GPT-4o Vision for product analysis and listing copy</li> <li>Media: ImageKit</li> <li>Hosting: Vercel</li> </ul> <p><b>Marketing and growth</b></p><p>Distribution so far has been entirely organic and founder-led - X (Twitter) build-in-public posts. There has been no paid acquisition, no SEO content programme, and no affiliate or influencer channel.</p><p>This is the honest gap in the business, and also the opportunity: the product works and converts, but it has never had a real distribution push behind it.</p><p><b>Revenue and profit</b></p><ul> <li>MRR: $8</li> <li>ARR: $96</li> <li>CAC: ~$0 (Driven completely through organic search and forum traffic)</li> <li>LTV: High relative to price point, as users typically convert via small recurring monthly.</li> <li>Margins: &gt;85% gross margin since server costs are practically zero (runs vercel hobby plan).</li> </ul> <p><b>Return on investment</b></p><p>At $8 MRR this business does not pay for itself passively today, and I won't frame it as though it does. The return here is effort-based.</p><p>At the asking price, a buyer needs roughly $120–130 MRR to break even within 12 months. On the current plan, that's about 6–7 additional paying customers - a distribution gap, not a product gap. Payments, credit system, and AI pipeline are all built and working; nobody has actively sold this yet.</p><p><b>Startup assets<b></b></b></p><ul> <li>Full codebase</li> <li>.app domain</li> <li>All existing customers and subscription details</li> <li>Database customers</li> <li>30 days of free handover support and technical onboarding.</li> </ul> <p><b>Risks</b></p><ul> <li>Platform dependency. The platform's value is tied to Etsy sellers. If Etsy ships its own AI photo or listing tools, demand drops. Mitigation: the underlying pipeline is platform-agnostic - the same product works for Shopify, Amazon, eBay, and Instagram sellers with copy changes only, no rebuild.</li> <li>AI model and API dependency. The product relies on FLUX Kontext and OpenAI. Price increases, deprecations, or quality changes affect unit economics directly. Mitigation: generation calls are abstracted behind a single service layer, so swapping to Replicate, fal.ai alternatives, or newer models is a contained change. Costs are usage-based, so they never exceed revenue at scale.</li> </ul> <p><b>Summary</b></p><p>My product is a fully built, live AI product that solves a real and expensive problem for e-commerce sellers: professional product photos cost $50–200 per shoot, and most small sellers simply go without. The platform produces studio-quality images plus a complete SEO-optimised listing from a single uploaded photo.</p><p><b>Two reasons this is worth buying:</b></p><ul> <li>It's finished and it works. This isn't an idea or a prototype. Auth, credit system, subscription billing, AI generation pipeline, and hosting are all live and functioning. Building this from scratch is several weeks of work for an experienced developer, plus the cost of getting the AI prompting and image pipeline right.</li> <li>Payments are validated. Real customers have entered card details and paid for this product. Small revenue, but it proves the entire chain works: people find it, understand it, and pay. That's the step most side projects never reach.</li> </ul> <p>I'm selling because I'm a solo builder with several products and I can't give it the sustained attention it needs. It deserves an owner who will actually sell it.</p><p>✅ $8 TTM revenue</p><p>✅ 2 customers</p><p>✅ Business model: SaaS</p><p>✅Built with Next.js, TypeScript, MongoDB</p>