[kilian]

That's pretty cool! Get ready to keep these up to date monthly or become obsolete quickly.

One of the downsides of tools like this is that your URL needs to be available online so if there's an issue, your iteration loop is quite long.

In Polypane [1] I've built social media previews that work with any local URL but also let you overwrite that URL for the social media that display those. I built (and frequently maintain) previews for X/Twitter, Facebook, Slack, LinkedIn, Discord, Mastodon, Discord, Google Search, Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads. For all of those I have the design for their light and dark mode so you really can test everything. It also tells you what's missing and what is incompatible. Check it out: https://polypane.app/social-media-previews/

[1] https://polypane.app/

[lagniappe]

I hate when HN nerds deliver something poised as helpful advice that is just an ad for their own thing.

[bombela]

I think a little bit of it is fine.

The person pointed out a specific limitation. And then offered a solution. Very clearly stating that they made it.

Somebody might find this useful.

[stevenicr]

I sometime react that way, but most of the time I appreciate the alternatives that HN crowd adds to the conversations.

This is helpful in the current discussion and for later searches.

Only thing is I wish there was a note about open-source vs paid, / this thing is $11 / month don't click..

[gloosx]

Not as bad as seeing low-effort AI generated articles here and there disguised as a useful blog post that is just an ad for yet another AI tool

[philipwhiuk]

"I hate when people's adverts on a popular discussion website is undermined by other people's adverts"

[lylo]

c’mon, makers gotta pimp. it’s tough out there :)

[colesantiago]

I know and it's becoming commonplace here, this is why I prefer free open source software instead so that we can ignore these ads for closed source software grifts altogether.

Is there a FOSS version of all of this that is open source? Otherwise one can make one such that these 'ads' don't need to exist and everyone can benefit from a FOSS version just in case an author chooses to shut their closed source one down.

[demarq]

We can’t keep demanding people work their weekends so we can have free stuff.

And label them “grifts” should they dare to make a living.

[jraph]

I don't quite agree with your parent comment. However, I think we should stop equating free software with weekend projects.