Viib is a static ad generation platform that turns a single website URL into production ready ad creatives.
The core idea came from a simple frustration. Generating ads is repetitive, but the input data is usually already structured on the site itself. Brand colors, value props, product hierarchy, reviews, pricing language, hero images. Most ad tools ignore that structure and start from a blank prompt.
The focus is static ads because they are still the workhorse of performance marketing. Faster to test, cheaper to iterate, easier to scale.
Right now the system generates three ads on signup so people can see output quality immediately. No long onboarding.
After 5 years building BeltBro with 5 patents and 3 million customers, I watched my Amazon sales collapse overnight.
The reason? 250+ duplicate listings from Chinese sellers flooding my category—all selling the identical product under fake brand names with manipulated (fake) reviews.
I investigated and found that 42 of the top 100 "New Releases" in Men's Belts are duplicate listings by the same seller network. Same 5.9" x 1.5" dimensions. Copy-paste descriptions. Identical videos. Coordinated launches.
They aren't just dominating organic searches on Amazon, but they also use Amazon ads to drive tens of thousands of sales per month to their infringing products.
When I tried to report patent infringement through Amazon's APEX program, they limit me to 10 reports per month. Meanwhile, 100+ new infringing listings appear in the same timeframe.
Amazon's response when I asked for more reporting capacity? "We are unable to discuss this criteria."
This isn't just my problem. Chinese networks control 63% of Amazon's third-party marketplace—$35 billion annually—using shell brands to dominate search results and destroy American small businesses that actually innovate and hold patents.
I've documented the full investigation with evidence in the HN link above.
If you work at Amazon, represent government, work in media, or have connections that can help—please share this. Small businesses deserve a marketplace that rewards innovation instead of manipulation.
I invested $25,000 into buying secondary equity shares of Evernote about 1.5 years ago. In January, I got an exit check back for $120 bucks after the sale to Bending Spoon :/
Chess rating, with sufficient number of games, over a long duration, is an excellent measure of progress or lack thereof.
It could also serve as an early warning indicator for Alzheimer’s or neurodegenerative diseases, especially bullet (1 minute) chess which relies both on motor coordination and rapid thinking ability.
Amazon cut inventory sending limits for merchants which means many skus are out of stock. Why did they do this? A combination of fewer employees, fewer warehouses and less space, etc.
Overall trend is going in the wrong direction. They should be helping merchants and providing more space and opening more warehouses.
I have EXTENSIVE experience with this, as I’ve dealt with it many times as a brand owner.
The strategy is to attack them from all sides.
1) Shopify DMCA
2) Cloudflare DMCA
3) Web host DMCA
4) Look at any widgets or services they use on the page - DMCA
5) Get a lawyer to email them notice of violation and lawsuit
6) Google DMCA
7) Registrar DMCA
I’ve had most luck with 1 and 2 (most responsive). Others can work but take more time 2-3 months.
8) Order from their store (If they are selling) and write your company name as customer (so they can see you are buying to pursue legal action).
9) Start adding any relevant keywords they might be using on their domain to your website to catch any traffic (like variations of your trademark).
With all of these listed, the best method is to cite your Trademark # in each email. There’s a specific template for each service provider which needs to follow guidelines for takedown requests (such as your signature, mailing address etc), make sure you include all those relevant points or they may ignore your request.
I’m curious how difficult it would be to iterate this model into a VR Holodeck with spoken scenes, realistic movements, personality and behavior? Obviously this would be a huge AI undertaking but my prediction is 5 years.
Not using multiple accounts,
please do not make unfounded accusations or I will report your account as harassing.
Why are you flagging relevant discussion threads on moderation and undisclosed shadow banning policies that are relevant to the HN community?
Shadow banning is a particularly severe form of moderation as it intentionally silences a critical voice without any notification that his/her voice is being censored, and without any ability to appeal to the larger HN community in case of an error.
FYI Dang, the moderator of HN, reversed your decision on flagging aka “killing” my previous thread,
please see his comment to you:
You claimed this was self-promotional. The article had nothing to do with self promotion and was written as a critique of big tech, which ironically as an SF “big tech” website you appear to be defending by censoring my submission from HN readers.
All I requested was a “fair chance”
to submit my content and get upvoted or downvoted by my peers, which you explicitly forbid by killing the post within 2 minutes and shadow banning me.
In fact, my previous submission on a related topic received 511 upvotes and 267 comments, which was fairly promoted to the first page of HN:
You claimed my new submission was too similar to my previous submission even though it was on a completely different topic.
At what point does Dang (ONE GUY) have too much power and control over what gets seen and distributed to potentially millions of people?
I’ve read over the HN terms, guidelines, rules, and your moderation techniques seem to be completely unjustified. I neither spammed HN, submitted promotional material, used bots, or submitted irrelevant content. Yet my account is treated just as a spammer even though my previous submission had
267 comments and I was interviewed by national media on TV, etc about this exact topic.
Example 2:
Within 5 minutes of submitting this post it gets “FLAGGED” status. Granted, this was probably from the community and not Dang (although I’m not certain). As a community, why is this topic so heavily downvoted and flagged? Why is it controversial to discuss in the open HN’s policies towards content moderation and specifically shadow banning when it’s not clearly disclosed in any terms of service or website policies that are available for the community to read?
Example 3:
After submitting this thread and noticing it was flagged, I attempted to ironically post another submission pointing out this post about moderation was flagged and censored, but my submission was immediately shadow banned:
Essentially what is happening is there is no discussion on the topic of HN censorship and shadow banning policies, any attempt to discuss it results in immediate downvoting and shadow banning, and this all happens under one guys watch, Dang, who everyone trusts to moderate content without any bias across a wide variety of topics that he may or may not agree or disagree with.
However, Dang, I do appreciate you responding to this thread and “unkilling” this thread. This shows me you are attempting to act fairly, although I disagree with your moderation policies and ability to kill topics so quickly which you solely deem irrelevant (To YOU).
The core idea came from a simple frustration. Generating ads is repetitive, but the input data is usually already structured on the site itself. Brand colors, value props, product hierarchy, reviews, pricing language, hero images. Most ad tools ignore that structure and start from a blank prompt.
The focus is static ads because they are still the workhorse of performance marketing. Faster to test, cheaper to iterate, easier to scale.
Right now the system generates three ads on signup so people can see output quality immediately. No long onboarding.
Happy to answer technical or product questions.