ButterflAI – turn 1 product photo into optimized ecommerce listing

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Hi HN, I’m Enric. I built ButterflAI to help e-commerce teams keep product pages fresh without doing constant shoots or manual copy updates. What it does? - Upload 1 product photo (or connect a Shopify store). - Generates a small set of product visuals (clean + lifestyle-style) and a short product video. - Updates product listing content (title/description/metafields) to improve SEO and conversion. Why I built it? I kept seeing teams stuck between "expensive shoots" and "stale pages". I wanted a workflow that’s fast, consistent with brand guidelines, and usable for real stores (not mockups). Why its different? Because it’s not a general-purpose image generator. It’s built specifically for e-commerce product assets. It produces the exact formats stores need (clean PDP shots, detail/angle views, before/after sets, and product infographics), with consistency across a whole catalog. I’d love feedback on: 1. Are the generated visuals actually usable for PDPs/ads? 2. What would make you trust the output (brand controls, review flow, provenance)? 3. What’s the minimum "control surface" you need (style presets, negative prompts, rules)? If you prefer the Shopify app listing: https://apps.shopify.com/butterflai Thanks!

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