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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:02 PM UTC

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Post by phphp » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:07 PM UTC

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.

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Post by zz_down » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

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.

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Post by primemil » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

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!

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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

phphp wrote: post #2

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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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:13 PM UTC

zz_down wrote: post #3

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:)

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Post by crowning » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:16 PM UTC

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?

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Post by sm1th_sm1th » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:18 PM UTC

There was another HN thread the other day about Google Scholar PDF Reader - they introduced a citations preview in a popup. Question. Can Linkz.ai be integrated into the PDF-viewer?

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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:19 PM UTC

sm1th_sm1th wrote: post #8

There was another HN thread the other day about Google Scholar PDF Reader - they introduced a citations preview in a popup. Question. Can Linkz.ai be integrated into the PDF-viewer?

Yes, but it depends. The PDF-viewer should have HTML markup to which link preview popups can attach. I know people have integrated Linkz.ai into the PDF.JS open source lib.

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Post by dayv1d » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:21 PM UTC

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.