| Most sites don’t bother with Open Graph images for every page (blog posts, product pages, docs, etc.), which leads to boring or broken previews on Twitter/LinkedIn/Slack. I’ve been experimenting with a hosted service where you add just one meta tag like: <meta property="og:image" content="https://uselinkshot.com/acc_123/tmp_456?url=https://yoursite.com/page" /> When someone shares your page, the OG image is generated dynamically (via browser rendering), cached with stale-while-revalidate, and served quickly. You can set up templates for consistent branding, titles, etc. This avoids: Manually designing images for each page Running your own Puppeteer/Playwright setup Adding heavy infra for what’s essentially a small but important detail My questions for HN: Is this actually a pain point you’ve run into? Would you trust a third-party service for OG images, or prefer rolling your own? What would make this useful enough to adopt (API access, cache-busting, more control, pricing)? I’d love to hear whether this scratches a real itch or is just a “nice-to-have.” |