I’m super excited today to launch the Bannerbear API 🐻 Drag and drop to design templates, then generate variations via a simple REST API. This is not just a big new feature, it’s really a whole new product direction. I’m simplifying the product (which is a plus, as I'm an indie dev) but I’m also hugely increasing the possibilities of what can be done with it. I'm really looking forward to seeing how it gets used! Who needs this? - social platform owners who need to auto-create graphics on a per-user basis - marketing teams who need to auto-create personalized email graphics on a per-user basis - ecommerce agencies who need to auto-create thousands of banner variations - and more! New features: 🖌 All new drag-and-drop template editor 📐 Create templates in any size 🤪 Invite a teammate (e.g. you're a developer and they are a designer) 🔤 Full typographic controls (letter spacing, line height etc) 🤓 Integrated API test console 📚 New template library (adding more soon!) 🆓 100 free API requests A bit of background: The previous iteration of Bannerbear was a product that plugged into your website (Shopify / Wordpress) and generated primarily open graph graphics (but also some other formats). Aimed at blog owners and store owners. Being honest, I've really struggled with that target segment over the last couple of months. My product fell into an awkward spot where it was quite technical (required editing your site code etc) but was aimed at a mostly non-technical audience. The overlap between these two attributes just wasn't big enough, at least that was my personal finding. In addition, they say that you should pick a target audience you love to serve, because that's who you're going to be dealing with in terms of customer support. So this pivot is to address this point too - it's now an API-first product, aimed primarily at developers but also needs to be used by designers, which are two groups I'm very comfortable dealing with and can easily empathise with their pain points! If you have an interesting use case for the Bannerbear API do reach out - I'm looking for some case studies to put on the site :)

This is exactly what I'm looking for! I was going to learn how to code to build this for myself!

That makes perfect sense. Great product.

Long time fan of your products. Was looking for this for a client, came in the perfect time!! 🔥

Congrats on your launch, Jon! It's been cool watching your journey up until this point - all the best 🎉

Image generation for your brand is so time consuming. What Jon has created here is going to save so many people thousands of hours. Clean design, beautiful API docs, fully customisable, and lovingly made. What more could you want?

Looks like I’m late to the game here, but just had to post a big thank you.

The phrase is not, "worth the hype." The phrase is, "meets" or "beats the hype."

Congrats on the launch, but I got a weird warning attempting to view your site. Virus-based warning. @yongfook

Optimized open graph images as a service was an excellent start. Now an API to fully automate creation of these? Seriously feels like a game changer here for a number of team, companies, and use-cases! Great work.

This is such a fantastic idea, love it!

Hi @yongfook Any chance you can do a smaller plan at $5 to $10 a month for 10,000 API calls a month? I have some smaller projects that I'd love to use this on but the price is too much of a jump at the higher levels.

Amazing !! Love this Jon :) Are you planning on adding a GET method with paeans to the api ? As cloudinary for ex. That would allow tons of great use cases !

Sorry, my phone changed « Params » into paeans... basically: If i can use your api with GET / params, I can include personnalised images in my emails. That opens tooooons of opportunity 🧐

This looks great

It's a good use-case to offer API I think. Can I ask you a technical question? I know you like to use Rails, but did you use any particular front-end framework for the editor? Thanks and good luck!

hi @yongfook Wish you luck on your new project. Do you think is it possible to integrate with some of html a/b testing tools. Creating a new variations on static contents would be revolution. Cheers, Doruk

Great work! I really feel like this fits nicely within your areas of passion, while also being an easy-to-reach market!

This is Pretty Dope! this is going to help out a LOT of people. Possible to add a Resizable toggle on bottom right to widen the Console? Are you able to Delete any Template? Just a suggestion.

Product is nice. $99 per month. kind of restrictive for me