Show HN: A widget to show off your LinkedIn followers on your website

#1

Post by dgvisnadi » Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 1:36 PM UTC

Hey HN,

I'm currently working on my personal website as a consultant and wanted to use my LinkedIn followers as a social trust builder on my site.

So, I built this widget to easily embed it on my website. It looks fun and updates with every new follower.

I hope this is as helpful to you as it is to me. I would love your feedback, please.

Dimitri

Show HN: A widget to show off your LinkedIn followers on your website
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Re: Show HN: A widget to show off your LinkedIn followers on your website

#2

Post by maxim_mazurok » Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 1:49 PM UTC

Interesting, can it be self-hosted? Otherwise sharing a cookie with 3rd party seems like a pretty big security concern. Also, it will probably expire, but maybe you have a background job to refresh it... Also on the screenshot with your profile, the bio reads "Let's replace you", maybe a different crop would be better :) I also couldn't help but notice that it took a while for a widget to render on the page, maybe some server-side rendering or caching would be good moving forward. Overall it's a pretty cool idea, cheers!

Re: Show HN: A widget to show off your LinkedIn followers on your website

#3

Post by dvisnadi » Thu, Jun 20, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

maxim_mazurok wrote: post #2

Interesting, can it be self-hosted? Otherwise sharing a cookie with 3rd party seems like a pretty big security concern. Also, it will probably expire, but maybe you have a background job to refresh it... Also on the screenshot with your profile, the bio reads "Let's replace you", maybe a different crop would be better :) I also couldn't help but notice that it took a while for a widget to render on the page, maybe so…

Thanks! That’s really valuable feedback. I’ll do some research and see what I can do!