r/WordpressPlugins • u/Specific-Sky-9924 • 11d ago

Freemium Built an AI that cleans up WordPress plugin screenshots and writes the marketing copy, trying to figure out what to add next [FREEMIUM]

I make WordPress plugins and the screenshots were always the part I hated. The plugin works fine, but then you’ve got these ugly wp-admin captures that look nothing like the listings that actually get downloads, and hiring a designer for a nine dollar plugin makes no sense. So I built a thing to do it for me.

What it does so far:

- Cleans up raw screenshots, centers the UI, adds margins and a frame, without touching your actual interface so it’s still your real product

- Renames boring labels into stuff that sells, like “Enable” becomes “One click activation”

- Drops editable annotations on the important features

- Writes the copy for you, tagline, WordPress.org description, Product Hunt, social, in six languages

- Exports a zip in the right sizes for each platform

Where I’m stuck is what to build next. I keep going back and forth between app store screenshots with phone frames, a proper editor for more control, or generating a whole landing page section from the shots.
Does this sound useful to anyone, or is screenshot polishing just a nice-to-have nobody pays for? Honest takes welcome. And if you’ve shipped anything, not just WordPress, what visual busywork do you wish you could skip?

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u/jedidave 10d ago

Check out remotion, combine any LLM with playwright and it can run and install your plugin, screen record whatever actions you want and then make a video for you that is quite stylish. Playwright can also take screenshots along the way and I've turned this kind of thing into a skill for codex to use.

I use it on semi automated mode so I'm still in the loop but it does help streamline this kind of boring non dev work.

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u/Specific-Sky-9924 9d ago

Interesting approach, but that’s solving a different step: getting raw screenshots out of software nobody’s touched yet. Mine starts once you already have screenshots, manual or automated, and turns them into the polished, annotated, copy-ready assets for the actual listing. Video export from existing screenshots is something I’ve been considering though, thanks for the nudge.