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Show HN: I made an an AI app to drive free website traffic from TikTok

https://www.userylee.com/
1•saascouple•4h ago
hey, it's Chris here

So a few months ago, I got an idea:

What if we can use image-to-video AI models like Kling or WAN to replicate viral TikTok video formula micro-influencers use to promote products?

My friends that work as marketers for startups told me people spend at least $200 on influencer videos. Not to mention time spent on revisions, editing, and publishing.

I scrolled TikTok for weeks to find high-engagement videos - turns out 90% could be replicated with AI.

Basically, I did market research the same way devs debug:

stare at the screen until something makes sense.

After 2 months of prompt engineering, data gathered from TikTok, and of course...hours spent on debugging why AWS lambda timeout with Remotion library, I created Rylee.

And it works this way:

1. You pick an actor for your promo video. 2. You add a few clips with your product or app. 3. You save the final video and upload it to your TikTok or Youtube.

I've made a library of over 100+ actors with different themes like POV, lecture halls, bedroom, parking lot, in a car, you name it.

All of these themes are based on viral videos.

And just this week I found 5 more videos I'll turn into preset actors.

You can also create your own actor if you're a brand and want a specific character.

And since I saved a bunch of viral videos, I also trained claude-3.7 with reasoning on generating intro hooks (the text that appears on screen at the beginning of the video).

What's Next?

I'm actively working on adding more features like:

- Different layouts and video templates. - Generate product videos for you. - Auto-posting on TikTok and Youtube shorts. - Analytics so you know which UGC video performed the best. - TikTok Slideshows

And much more...

My Ask - Try it out and create your first AI video - Share your feedback - what features would make your workflow easier and of course BUGS - I'd love to hear from you! Feel free to reach out with questions, feedback, or just to chat about the future of UGC video creation.

Thanks for checking out Rylee Chris

Balancing Work and Life: An Engineer's Guide to Fulfillment

https://spectrum.ieee.org/guide-to-work-life-balance
1•WaitWaitWha•1m ago•0 comments

Dutch ingenuity: A brainless soft robot running on air

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/dutch-scientists-built-a-brainless-soft-robot-that-runs-on-air/
1•davoneus•2m ago•1 comments

Is Exasol solving complex decision making for everyone?

https://www.exasol.com/blog/exasol-skyline-feature/
1•fwberlin•2m ago•0 comments

NSF Seeks Partnerships to Fund Graduate Fellows

https://www.aip.org/fyi/nsf-seeks-partnerships-to-fund-graduate-fellows
1•mosesbp•2m ago•0 comments

Is Cline really Apache 2.0?

https://github.com/cline/cline/issues/3510
1•icoxfog417•3m ago•0 comments

Learn Lua quickly with this short yet comprehensive and friendly script (2015)

https://gist.github.com/tylerneylon/5853042
1•Tomte•3m ago•0 comments

Rustls Server-Side Performance

https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-server-perf/
1•jaas•4m ago•0 comments

AdaCore and Lynx Software Technologies Reaffirm Partnership

https://blog.adacore.com/adacore-and-lynx-software-technologies-reaffirm-longstanding-partnership
1•Tomte•4m ago•0 comments

FlyLoop – AI Agent for Scheduling Meetings and Managing Your Calendar

3•localbuilder•4m ago•0 comments

WebKit Features in Safari 18.5

https://webkit.org/blog/16923/webkit-features-in-safari-18-5/
1•ksec•6m ago•0 comments

Recursive Becoming: Theory of Everything

https://twitter.com/dvcoolster/status/1922266236173365313
2•dvcoolster•7m ago•1 comments

Footage Captures Ground Shifting Live During Myanmar Earthquake

https://twitter.com/Geo_Risk/status/1921735829199679868
1•Ridius•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Stickr.Shop – Buy Stickers via SSH

https://stickr.shop
2•f4n4tiX•8m ago•0 comments

Match to lay off 13% of staff as number of paid users fall

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/match-to-lay-off-13-of-staff/
2•Funes-•11m ago•0 comments

The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 3: The Dog Days of Oakhurst

https://www.filfre.net/2025/05/the-end-of-sierra-as-we-knew-it-part-3-the-dog-days-of-oakhurst/
1•doppp•12m ago•0 comments

Why Apple can’t just quit China

https://restofworld.org/2025/apple-china-dependence-tariffs-india-shift/
2•vinnyglennon•13m ago•0 comments

Argonne team uses Aurora to investigate potential dark energy breakthrough

https://www.anl.gov/article/argonne-team-uses-aurora-supercomputer-to-investigate-potential-dark-energy-breakthrough
1•rbanffy•15m ago•0 comments

China Makes High-Speed Laser Links in Orbit

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-internet-china-crosslink
1•pseudolus•15m ago•0 comments

Beyond Incentives: How to Build Durable DeFi

https://www.coindesk.com/opinion/2025/04/22/beyond-incentives-how-to-build-durable-defi
1•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

The Scouring of the Shire: a letter from ex-Palantir staff to tech workers [pdf]

https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25930212/the-scouring-of-the-shire.pdf
2•DonnyV•17m ago•0 comments

A calculator app? Anyone could make that

https://twitter.com/ChadNauseam/status/1890889465322786878
1•FjordWarden•17m ago•0 comments

In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships

https://wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-stress-job-relationships/
2•wqtz•18m ago•0 comments

Polkadot Naming Service

https://pns-swart.vercel.app/
2•andre15silva•18m ago•0 comments

Is Free-Threading Our Only Option?

https://discuss.python.org/t/is-free-threading-our-only-option/91775
1•Yiling-J•19m ago•1 comments

Chinese Weapons Gain Credibility After Pakistan-India Conflict

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-13/success-of-chinese-jets-against-india-raises-alarm-in-asia
1•belter•20m ago•0 comments

How the United States Gave Up Being a Science Superpower

https://steveblank.com/2025/05/13/how-the-united-states-became-a-science-superpower-and-how-quickly-it-could-crumble/
38•enescakir•22m ago•7 comments

Find Your Early Adopters

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/consumer-business-find-first-users
1•harperlee•22m ago•0 comments

Lua for Elixir

https://davelucia.com/blog/lua-elixir
2•davydog187•23m ago•0 comments

Does fullstack Next.js need a Rails-style framework?

https://dev.to/structax/refraimts-wip-structure-speed-for-the-nextjs-era-3d5a
1•lailslove•24m ago•1 comments

The FreeBSD-native-ish home lab and network

https://antranigv.am/posts/2024/06/freebsd-server-network-homelab/
2•bediger4000•24m ago•0 comments