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Post by AlexTr0y » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:23 PM UTC

dayv1d wrote: post #10

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.

I think it is super easy to justify expense for something like this for anyone doing text-based content marketing through blogs or articles.

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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:24 PM UTC

dayv1d wrote: post #10

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 :)

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Post by m1chael_k » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:25 PM UTC

crowning wrote: post #7

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?

I used the extension before called Survol, it was quite nice. But it only showed the description & thumbnail of the hyperlink. I think showing linked text or embed on click in the overlay is useful! Great job on the execution!

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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:26 PM UTC

crowning wrote: post #7

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.

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Post by vittor1o » Mon, Mar 25, 2024, 5:30 PM UTC

primemil wrote: post #4

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!