How does IH generate beautiful Image with Title and avatar for Twitter posts
I think it has been asked before. I can't find it here.
I am working on social media for my product and would like to generate beautiful image along with link to blog post whenever I share it on Twitter. eg: https://twitter.com/csallen/status/1054829171514400768
@Mubs once said he has done something like that. I can't find the post here. Wish @csallen has given us ability to bookmark or save post
Just looking for a headway on how to go about it with JS
I posted about it here once: https://www.indiehackers.com/forum/how-does-ih-generate-social-sharing-thumbnails-4349889c34?commentId=-L6XQDJXgLAN2SE6fehE
Thanks
And... bookmarks? 😂
why don't you use your browser's bookmarks?
I chose not to fill my bookmarks with IH links. Like, seriously, how difficult will it be to implement it in IH?
And how many times do people here ask for it?
It's not a matter of how difficult it is, is a matter of how many other million more important tasks have higher priority than this. Good thing you guys are indiehackers, god knows what would happen if you weren't. You have an alternative, and it's your decision not to use it.
Ok. Good day.
Every post you like? That's like 1,000,000s of bookmarked links in a year
yes, every post you like. The browser bookmarking system will always be more powerful than anything Courtland can hack in 5 hours (Courtland is good but not that good ;D).
Actually asked about this twice as well. Last time in https://www.indiehackers.com/csallen/post/4b92c2fc91?commentId=-LZAhraKbBw1k6N6XtK6.
There was a post about this recently:
https://medium.com/@jsneedles/dynamic-social-images-2f54ed009e28
I'm working on a blog post about a way that is even easier, which uses Cloudinary (or you could use Imgix) to generate these images without any coding at all.
Would you be interested in a product that generates thumbnails like this?
Single API endpoint, you send it a URL and drops it in your S3 bucket? (basically @csallen's approach as a product)
Interested in your opinion @DaveMichael and others in the thread.
I don't recommend turning this into a business unless you have a customer/market in mind who's willing to pay a lot for it because it's central to how they make or save money. It's certainly cool, and may even be useful, but I'm not sure it's valuable, if you catch my drift.
I had some suspicion it might be very tricky to productize/sell, but wanted to get some feedback on this.
Thanks for confirming my suspicion @csallen :)
Using twitter cards...
If you check source of that page shared in Twitter, you will see: