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Re: Show HN: Linkz.ai – Live link previews on hover

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Post by vittor1o »

dayv1d wrote: post #6

It's good! I actually just went through the signup process, and indeed, it took me 2 minutes to install and see the previews on my blog. I don't know whether your pricing will work for a casual blogger, but the product is interesting. For bigger publishers, it's definitely easier to justify the expense, especially if you can show some ROI on increasing ad revenues because of better retention.

Good idea on communicating ROI this way. I have not though about it.

As for casual bloggers, there is a "free" version. But message me through the chat on Linkz.ai, I'll do a special plan for casual HN bloggers :)

Re: Show HN: Linkz.ai – Live link previews on hover

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Post by vittor1o »

zz_down wrote: post #5

Congrats on good execution! This solution looks quite unique from a product perspective, though it makes sense that it should exist. I wish you luck! I know it is quite hard to market something that people might not be looking for.

Thank you! Spot on about challenges with marketing something where you don't have comparable products and defined pain. Please prove me wrong:)

Re: Show HN: Linkz.ai – Live link previews on hover

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Post by vittor1o »

crowning wrote: post #4

I saw similar tools as browser extensions, but I think it's quite smart to package this for the website owners to buy & install. This way, it's more clear how to monetise and sustain this. Have you considered packaging this as a browser extension?

Yes I explored the browser extension direction, but the business model & our cost-per-link-preview-generation does not work yet. Making the website owner to pay for it makes the business math work much better.

Re: Show HN: Linkz.ai – Live link previews on hover

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Post by vittor1o »

primemil wrote: post #2

I've built something similar before for my previous company's wiki, even before Google Docs introduced their link preview. It was quite well received, and I think it is still used there. I like your implementation, and I think that extra logic that you have on click - extracting embed & displaying it within the website - is quite smart!

Thank you! Curious how did you implementation look like!

Re: Show HN: Linkz.ai – Live link previews on hover

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phphp wrote: post #3

Reminded me of the Arc browser and its AI 5-second link preview feature. When I saw Arc's implementation, I thought, why do you need AI when you can save compute and just show OpenGraph info. I guess this is what you are doing with Linkz.ai.

I also saw Arc's previews, and thought the same thing :) Yes we are relying on OpenGraph, Oembed (and scraping in some cases).

I was very happy to see Arc's release, as it brings awareness to this functionality! I wish this translated to Google traffic :)

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