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ShrinkTheWeb.com has been around a while and (I think) made a decent small business out of this. However, their site is horrific and it's pretty expensive. A more recent alternative I've used is url2png.com which has been great. edit: sorry, not thumbalizr, meant url2png
We would like to correct all the things they do wrong.
Hash-banged pages are not properly supported, e.g. http://twitter.com/#!/username . It is easy to add - have a look at _escaped_fragment notation.
Have needed a service like this a few times. Current favorite solution is: http://url2png.com/ How do you differentiate LinkPeek?
We plan to price ourselves in reach for both small site (dynamic web designer portfolios) and large link directories link HN. Also a more flexible billing schedule.
Eventually we would like to add features that only our service provides.
When I went to this site it showed a thumbnail for YouPorn on the right. Maybe not a good idea to show the most recent thumbnails generated! Useful service though. I had a need for this a year or so ago.
I got a preview of goatse. This really needs a NSFW tag.
/JKOh thanks OP. Goatse on the right. Lovely.
Sorry, our users are posting NSFW images.
It's a nice concept, but isn't it what Silk and OperaMini do? Sort of a pre-render the page and then send that to you? Clearly folks could pull previews off the Google page preview function as well. So I'm wondering at long term utility or a use case.
This looks expensive. How well does this scale?
It could get expensive but we did hours of research when developing this solution so that it will scale and keep costs down.
This looks expensive. How well does this scale?
LinkPeek.com == web scale It could get expensive but we did hours of research when developing this solution so that it will scale and keep costs down.
Do you _honestly_ think you could keep this up if, say, someone wrote a Wordpress plugin that automatically linked all your eBay sales screenshots into your blog, and Wordpress then installed it on their hosted service?
(Maybe I'm using the term "web scale" wrong, but in my head "web scale" means "the sort of problems Google, Facebook, and maybe Yahoo mostly get right, and almost everybody else mostly gets wrong". And the failure to predict the _first_ thing people would do is point it at goatse is a prime example of "getting it wrong".)