GenerateBanners
Generates your social media banners automatically
The Unsplash integration is live!
If you don't know the site already, Unsplash is a library of high quality photos that you can use for free.
This integration enables you to choose from the beautiful Unsplash photos right from the GenerateBanners editor.
No more ugly emojis! GenerateBanners.com now renders beautiful Apple-style emojis.
We support the latest emoji version: Emoji 13.1, released with Apple iOS 14.6.
More about the feature: https://www.generatebanners.com/changelog/moved-to-apple-style-emojis
When the included template library isn't enough, the no-code template editor enables you to create a customized template.
You can then generate many banners easily from your unique template.
More about the feature: https://www.generatebanners.com/changelog/new-template-editor
If you want to automate banner creation, it's best to have solid templates to start from.
We've added a new template that features a background image with a title, an author profile picture and the author name.
Enough talking, here is an example:
You can customize the image, text and profile picture and make this template your own on GenerateBanners.com.
Enjoy!
This feature is changing how you can use GenerateBanners.com!
Previously you would:
- Generate an image using the UI
- Download it
- Upload it somewhere so that you can use it on the web
=> Too many steps
Now you can:
- Generate an image using the UI
- Use the generated link directly in your open graph tags or your img html tags.
=> A lot easier!
This enabled me to add one simple open graph image on the whole website very easily!
I believe in releasing early and often. Instead of building forever by myself, I chose to release the half-finished website, and I've been doing small improvement ever since.
The launch was just a tweet: https://twitter.com/thibpat/status/1430919858829598732
This launch brought me 3 users, although only two of them actually created an image.
The best way to start a side project is to commit something to git! In April 2021, I've decided to start an API that generates images based on templates.
My main pain point was creating thumbnails for YouTube, but I did struggle with good social images for blog posts too.
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