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Microlink Cards — The easiest way to create social images at scale
Microlink Cards is a online code editor for generating images you can embed directly in your HTML markup or metatags. See Documentation.
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Hello, Product Hunt community!
The idea behind Microlink Cards is simple: we want to generate social sharing images, in a scalable and cheap way.
The tool is an interactive editor for mixing code and data, used for automatizing marketing and design departments into one. It plays nice with the rest of Jamstack folks.
You can create your own preset or reuse one, feeding it with dynamic data every time you need to create a new composition.
As the output of the process, an optimized image will be generated on the fly using cloud-based browsers, served via Microlink CDN using Microlink API.
This is a productivity tool with no hidden cost: The service can start to be used with the forever free Microlink plan. You don't have to worry about any infrastructure thing or performance issue.
Have always been impressed with what you're up to with Microlink @kikobeats!
Curious if this open-graph/twitter img service has API to automatically create these based off frontmatter/page title, etc at build and/or any plans beyond the visual editor?
@eugenehp Hey, thanks
The data format used is the old and well-known JSON, it works natively in any browser and can be serialized as part of the query params for retrieving the state.
I feel you don't need markdown at all, what could be the use case you have in mind?
@kikobeats you are right. I though of markdown after looking at the code part. JSON makes sense!
Do you plan to add any data/schema validations for the JSON later on?
@eugenehp that could be pretty interesting.
Every template has its own data schema; we can take the advantage of the online code editor to autocomplete that schema.
Thanks for the suggestion; Definitely I'm going to explore the idea 🙂
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