PRNow: Self-Serve AI Press Release Platform

PRNow lets businesses, agencies and resellers publish a press release without talking to a salesperson. They write the release themselves or let the AI writer draft it, pick a plan and premium outlets, and pay. The platform then distributes it, collects live placement links and sends a branded report.

I've been the lead developer since August 2025. Starting from the original homepage mock-up, I built the product behind it: accounts, orders, payments, distribution, reporting, support and the admin back office. That work comes to about 545 reviewed pull requests.

AI press release writer grounded in live web search, with SEO checks and fallback across model providers.

Order pipeline with package tracking, credit refunds, and automatic cancel-and-refund for stalled orders.

Automatic distribution to wholesale partners, with placement links returned to each order.

Branded reports on the web and as PDF and Excel files, including white-label domains for agencies.

Checkout with cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and crypto, designed so retries can't double-charge.

Support desk where AI drafts replies and a person approves them before they're sent.

Public REST API with Swagger docs, plus a white-label storefront for resellers.

Hosting move: I moved the app from Vercel to a VPS behind Cloudflare without downtime.

Admin performance: one admin page was shipping an estimated 80 MB. I fixed it by loading details on demand.

Five self-serve plans, from free to agency.

11 premium add-ons, including AP News, Yahoo Finance and MarketWatch.

1,000+ automated test files.

Live: https://prnow.io