The user wants to be able to generate video previews of the app store screenshots using ScreenMagic.
Hey everyone, I'm Francis, a solo dev from France. I've been shipping apps for years, and there's one part of the process I've always hated: **making App Store screenshots.** Every. Single. Time. It's the same pain: - Open Figma (or worse, Canva) - Spend 3-4 hours trying to make something that doesn't look terrible - Realize your screenshots look nothing like the top apps in your category - Consider hiring a designer ($500-$2,000 for a set) - End up shipping mediocre screenshots because deadlines After my last app launch, I snapped. I'd just spent an entire weekend on screenshots when I should have been fixing bugs. So I built **ScreenMagic**. **What it does:** 1. You upload your raw app screenshots 2. Browse 1,000+ real styles from top-charting App Store apps (Instagram, TikTok, Notion, etc.) 3. Pick a style you like 4. AI restyles your screenshots to match: backgrounds, text overlays, device frames, the works 5. Download in every size Apple and Google require The whole process takes about 30 seconds per screenshot. **Tech stack (for the curious):** - Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19 - Google Gemini + Claude for the AI generation pipeline - Firebase (auth, Firestore, storage) - Stripe for payments - Tailwind CSS 4 - Deployed on Vercel **What I learned building it:** - AI image generation has gotten insanely good for structured tasks like this. It's not "generate me a random image," it's "take this layout pattern and apply it to this content." Much more reliable. - The hardest part wasn't the AI. It was building the style library, scraping and cataloging 1,000+ real App Store designs so users have good references. - Pricing is hard. I went with a credit system ($0.50/screenshot or monthly plans starting at $19/mo) after a lot of back and forth. **Where I'm at:** I just launched recently and I'm in the early days. Still iterating on the generation quality and figuring out acquisition. This is a real bootstrapped solo project, no funding, no team, just me building something I needed myself. You can try it free (5 credits, no card required): https://appscreenmagic.com Would love feedback, especially on: - The generation quality, does it look professional enough? - Pricing, is $0.50/screenshot fair for indie devs? - Any styles/features you'd want? Happy to answer any questions about the tech or the business side.