Launching it after fellow Indie Hackers' advice.
So, I read this post on Indiehacker: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/creating-dynamically-generated-images-for-twitter-and-facebook-shares-6f83481945 about generating their twitter and facebook images automatically. It made me to think for a SaaS product. But after starting to code it I got messed up in my day job and couldn't get time ti finish and launch it early.
Then few days back I received a mail digest from Indiehacker itself where someone posted about the same idea as a SaaS product.
I got disappointed for not launching fast enough.
But yesterday I asked fellow Indie Hackers if I should still launch it (https://www.indiehackers.com/post/should-i-still-launch-it-a6d8c95187) and the answer was a loud YES!
So here it is the First MVP of OgHero - Generate your og images for facebook and Twitter automagically.
Give it a try: https://oghero.io/
Congrats!
Looks like a great tool! (And I know which post and which competition you are talking about ;-) )
I would suggest you to give a quick preview of what you do, for example explaining that every social network requires different sizes of images.
I've given it a try, but sadly it didn't work out for me (The image didn't appear, got a 404)
Hi Aquiles, thanks for trying it out and sorry it didn't work for you at the first try. I found there was some issue with relative URL of the img tag. It's now fixed. Can you try it once? :)
First off, awesome initiative to just code things up - no better way to maintain a sharp skillset.
I'd recommend you try on a different perspective: there's no place for disappointment, perhaps without that nudge, you never would have launched. Take it as a signal (and become attuned to picking up such signals in the future)
On the website: not showing the interface/real life examples loses some credibility. Even if the UI isn't that sexy, people will want to see the real thing before ponying up their email address (or their CC). You can safely assume that people that organically land on your page will know what the image preview resize game is about, but you should still provide some basic user education - IMO.
Thanks @ovi
I agree I am about to add a video tutorial to it by tomorrow. Thanks for your advice :)
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@alxcnwy yes you're right, I need to think about which market segment I need to target. Thanks for your advice 🙏