{"slug": "build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed", "title": "Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed", "summary": "A developer built a website in 20 hours that uses AI to generate dating-app profile photos from user selfies, spending $202 on Google Ads that yielded 123 clicks (8.0% CTR, $1.64 per click), 37 free photo generations, and only 2 purchases. The project failed to achieve a good conversion rate, but the developer plans to try Meta Ads by copying competitor creatives from the Meta Ads Library.", "body_md": "Build a website for AI pics for dating apps in 20 hours, launched ads, failed\n\nI had some free google cloud credits (included nano banana for AI gen photos) Build a simple website - user uploads a selfie, receiving cool pics for dating apps with his face + he can edit photos with promts. 3 photos with watermarks for free, after that pack with 25 photos for 9,99$, In the backend its prefiltered cool photos + face recognition in order to return only photos with a good simularity.\n\nEnd result - $202 spent, funnel - 123 clicks (8,0% CTR, $1,64 per click) 37 made free photos, 2 purchases\n\nI want to try Meta Ads as well, I like the idea that you could check meta ads library for competitor's creatives (video and pics) and copy those which are running for a long time. Nobody will run a creative for a long time if it doesnt have a good ROI. I want to try this\n\nExpirience from this project - it seems like its not that diffucult now a days to launche google ads via google ads API and claude, I had pretty good metrics (CTR and cost per click). The question is how to achive good conversion ration on the website\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013715](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013715)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49013715", "published_at": "2026-07-22 21:29:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-22 21:53:17.123550+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai", "computer-vision"], "entities": ["Google Ads", "Meta Ads", "Meta Ads Library"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/build-a-website-for-ai-pics-for-dating-apps-in-20-hours-launched-ads-failed.jsonld"}}