Prank Your Friends: AI-generated fake news articles for pranking friends

Create hyper-realistic fake news articles for pranking your friends. Pick a topic, add personal details (real names, places, context), and AI generates a complete news article hosted on its own unique URL. Send the link and watch them believe it — after 90 seconds, an unmissable popup reveals it's all fake. Realistic publication names, journalist bylines, expert quotes. Perfect for birthdays, group chats, bachelor parties, office pranks. From $2. No subscription.

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Hey Product Hunt! I'm a medical student and this is my first side project that's actually made money. I built PrankMyNews for April Fools this year as a quick weekend project. The idea was simple: let people generate fake news articles about their friends using AI. I figured it'd get some laughs on April 1st and then die. But people kept buying after April Fools ended. Turns out pranking your friends isn't seasonal lol, people want to do it year round. So I stripped the April Fools branding, added more article categories, polished the landing page. The tech is intentionally simple. Vanilla HTML/JS, Vercel serverless functions for the API, Claude for generation, Stripe for payments. Total build time was probably 10 hours. My favorite part is the built-in viral loop: every generated article has a small CTA banner, so when someone gets pranked, they see how to prank someone else. Most of my sales come from this chain reaction. Would love your feedback on the product, the pricing, or any ideas for new article categories. Thanks for checking it out!

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