Show the Link is a tool for content creators that automatically creates informative image previews for links posted on X that include your domain and headline. Don't leave your subscribers confused!
Hi ProductHunt!
I'm sure a lot of people have seen the recent changes on X/Twitter to remove text from links, (arguably) making them look better, but hurting visibility and clickthrough.
(If you haven't, take a quick break and read: https://mashable.com/article/elo...)
As someone who spends a worrying amount of time on X and doesn't like to see his readability diminished, I swung into action and built out "Show the Links". It's a drop-in improvement to let content creators on X publish links that still include their text content.
How does it work? It's kinda like a URL shortener, where you prefix the link you're posting with our URL. We dynamically generate a Twitter card image that includes both your base image, and an overlay of text and domain and so on. Super simple!
A quick example: https://twitter.com/showthelinks...
It's totally free to use on a showthe.link subdomain, but if you want a custom theme for your site and to use your own domain entirely there's a commercial white label option too.
There's a half-dozen themes to pick from already, and I'm adding in more soon. But I wanted to get v1 out ASAP because half my feed at the moment seems to be people complaining about this 😅
Looking forward to see what you all think! 🚀
@chrismessina Super easy -- just prefix your usual link with our domain (or your domain, if you want a white label solution!), and I take care of the rest on my side.
@mho22 honestly it'd be better if X fixed it on their end, but I suspect that won't happen. I like to refer to showthe.link as an ingenious solution to a problem that should rightfully never exist (but does!) 😅
I've noticed the changes on Twitter too, and sometimes it's frustrating when the text from links is removed. "Show the Links" seems like a great solution to that problem.
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