I could see myself paying for this. I also see how people (not me) would use this as an API.
Thanks for the support <3
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#22I hope this is useful to you fadymak- the page load is quite slow for me, and returning to it the second time was equally slow. (5-10s)
Hey Jason :wave: I've noticed that too - I believe the traffic spike from HackerNews is adding some pressure. It usually loads pretty quick (a few 100 ms max). It's hosted on Vercel.
Seems to be much faster now!
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#23My 2024 resolution is to be less curmogedony, but here's me failing: first, the name, is that going to be google-able, or to be mistaken with the HTML?
At first look I had no clue what "Open Graph Images" are. After reading the guide, so apparently this is an image generator for images to be used specifically in the HTML tag for a webpage, that social network sites will use as a preview/thumbnail image when the social network site links to that webpage.
But... it's not even doing anything clever like where you can input the webpage URL and the generator reads the other Open Graph tags (or the contents of the page) and populate the input fields?
Yet another Show HN that baffles me...
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#24This is great! Congrats on shipping this.
I made a basic version of this years ago (imageee.com) and would love to find a replacement. Something I could use in the same way.
```
https://api.imgsrc.io/basic?title=This is a title&description=blahblahblah&logo=https://example.com/image.png">
```
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right now Firefox for Android does not support Intl.Segmenter [1] but it appears that support has been added to nightly [2] and will be released soon! Sorry about that. I was weighing the pro/con of waiting for support to be released or adding a polyfill but it seems that support is just around the corner from what I can tell from the issue. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... [2] http…
I see, thanks for investigating! I guess it must be a relatively new API, seeing how recently Safari has implement it. Looks like a very good API, glad to have learned about it!
It shipped in Safari nearly 3 years ago [1] so it’s not that new.
[1]: https://webkit.org/blog/11648/new-webkit-features-in-safari-...
Re: Show HN: Imgsrc – Generate Beautiful Open Graph Images
#26This is great! Congrats on shipping this. I made a basic version of this years ago (imageee.com) and would love to find a replacement. Something I could use in the same way. ``` https://api.imgsrc.io/basic?title=This is a title&description=blahblahblah&logo= https://example.com/image.png "> ```
Hey tompec! Originally that was the idea for imgsrc (hence the name: the `src` attribute in an `img` tag).
I definitely plan on adding support for that in the coming weeks :) When the API is released, it will have both the POST and GET support for generating programatically, on-demand.
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey Jason :wave: I've noticed that too - I believe the traffic spike from HackerNews is adding some pressure. It usually loads pretty quick (a few 100 ms max). It's hosted on Vercel.
Seems to be much faster now!
Indeed - it seems that the Vercel outage has been resolved! https://www.vercel-status.com/incidents/kpgg9p03x8x0
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#28I'd love it if it has an api, and maybe with watermark and limitations (xx generated images per month) -- but I also understand that will severely limit the revenue for it
Hey @adonese :wave: Just wanted to share that I've shipped the API based on your feedback - I hope you find it useful!