What does HackerNews think of og-image?

Show HN: Satori – Convert HTML and CSS to SVG | Oct 2022

Thanks! Not to discourage anyone from using Vercel services if they’re interested (y’all are doing great stuff on this and lots of other fronts), but! I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out the unpublished-but-MIT-licensed repo I could find.

For anyone else who’s curious it looks like the pertinent source[1] can be self-hosted. I’m on mobile so I’m gonna limit my peering into the source, but it appears to wrap Chromium to do the PNG generation. Quite a bit different from my solution (which takes SVG-producing JSX and anything producing CSS, and renders to PNG with Sharp).

I’m curious how much overhead using Chromium adds, and whether alternatives like Sharp were considered.

1: https://github.com/vercel/og-image

Boring Avatars – React library to generate custom avatars | May 2021

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That sounds a great side project, since some developers might prefer a static svg dynamically created via url like boringavatar.app/[username here].

There's some prior work on this: e.g. https://github.com/lfades/static-tweet and https://github.com/vercel/og-image.

Show HN: A zero effort social image generator for your website | Aug 2020

This looks like a great product! Can I ask you want sets you apart from other services in this market like Vercel's og-image [0] or other more marketing-heavy sites that let you have more control and customization?

Also, I'm really curious what this will cost when you release it as a service? What do you think something like this is worth to people? Is it like a $20/year service or like $1,000/year? Are you going after mostly consumers and indie devs or big corporations?

[0] https://github.com/vercel/og-image