πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ Built in Vancouver

Built for the ecommerce underdogs

Pikstage is a one-person company making magazine-quality product photography affordable for stores that can't justify $300 photographer bills per shoot.

30
Days idea to launch
1
Person team
8.25
Identity score /10
$0
VC funding
D
Dev Patel
Founder, Pikstage
πŸ“ Vancouver, BC
[email protected]
Founder note

Hi, I'm Dev

I'm a first-time founder based in Vancouver. I built Pikstage because every other AI product photography tool I tried had the same problem β€” they generate beautiful scenes but warp the actual product. Labels go fuzzy. Colors shift. Logos turn into AI-soup. You can tell.

For an e-commerce seller, that's a deal-breaker. A photo where your branding looks β€œmostly” right is worse than no photo at all β€” customers notice, conversion drops, your brand looks cheap.

Pikstage is built around fixing exactly that problem. We use IP-Adapter image conditioning to preserve the product's shape, colors, label text, and proportions across every generated variation. The product on a kitchen counter, in a cozy bedroom, on a beach blanket β€” same product, every time.

What we stand for

Our values

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Quality over quantity

We'd rather ship 5 features that work perfectly than 20 that mostly do. Brand consistency is the whole product, not a feature.

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Honest billing

1-click cancel. 7-day refund. No annual lock-in. No surprise charges. No 'we changed your plan' emails.

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Founder-led support

Dev personally reads every email and reply. No outsourced helpdesk. No bot loops. Real conversation.

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Open about how we work

Public changelog. Public pricing. Public limitations (yes, we'll tell you what we can't do). No dark patterns.

From idea to launch

Built in 30 days

Public progress, no marketing fluff.

  1. May 2026

    Project starts

    Idea + competitive research. Why every existing tool fails at brand consistency.

  2. May 27

    Day 1 ships

    Live at pikstage.com. Auth, branded landing, deploy pipeline.

  3. May 30

    The wedge proven

    Tested 4 AI models with Claude scoring. Flux Kontext Pro wins (8.25/10 identity preservation).

  4. June 1–3

    Core product live

    5 scene packs, ZIP download, Stripe billing, transactional emails.

  5. June 4–5

    Differentiators ship

    Returns Killer Pack, Channel Optimizer, Bulk CSV, Prompt Studio.

  6. June 6+

    Public beta + launch

    Legal pages, support chat, GDPR account deletion. Launch pricing live.

Under the hood

Tech stack

We pick boring, proven tech. No bleeding-edge for the sake of it.

Next.js 16
App Router + Server Actions + Turbopack
Supabase
Postgres + RLS + Auth + Storage
Replicate
Flux Kontext Pro image generation
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5 for prompt enhancement + support chat
Stripe
Billing + Customer Portal
Resend
Transactional email with React templates
Cloudflare
DNS + CDN + Email Routing
Hetzner
VPS hosting (Canadian-routed)

Try it before you decide

20 free photos, no credit card. If it doesn't work for your products, just stop using it. Zero commitment.