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1 points by lot3oo 4 years ago · 1 comment

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lot3ooOP 4 years ago

Hey folks I posted this a while back when I had just a small MVP and a had a little bit of feedback from here. It’s my first-ever “SAAS” app built on my own, after years of doing it for others in the agency world .

It’s a small “API-like” tool that lets you easily auto-generate “Link preview” thumbnails (og:image) for your website's pages, based on HTML/CSS templates you provide. This way, when links to your site are shared on the internet, a nice standard picture with relevant information can be shown instead of a generic image or nothing at all.

I cleared some time to work on it in last november and have been building it on my own since. Last 2-3 weeks, holidays got basically cancelled because of the pandemic where I live (Montreal) so I had a lot of free time to work on it, so it’s starting to look pretty good now!

Some of you folks on HN seem pretty experienced, so I’m hoping to get some feedback/roast if you check it out! Do you think it’s a good idea? Does the pricing make sense to you? Would you / not use it? Why?

Thanks so much!

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