html css to image: Automate your image generation

PlanetScale Boost

Maker

Hi PH friends 👋, Use this API to auto generate images from code. Super useful for making custom social images on the fly. Gradients, drop shadows, emoji's, custom fonts. Basically, if Chrome can do it, this API will do it. If you've ever done this before on your own, you know how painful it is to get right 😃. My favorite use for this is generating open graph images. Auto generate an image, set the URL as your twitter OG meta tag. Now all your tweets look ✨. Images == More clicks. Here's an example I mocked up for dev.to. Code: https://codepen.io/mscccc/pen/eL... Image:

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7yr ago

Yvo Schaap

Maker Audience List

@mscccc Great product idea. Useful, and a pain for developers, with a clear upside for marketing! Some points: Given its targeted to developers, I would add how the API works on the homepage (maybe a interactive demo)? What is counted as an 'image' in terms of the images/month pricing? A unique CSS+html combo? I could see something like a minor template change, add up quickly towards my total. And last feedback, why not also a plan where I pay for actual usage, instead of per month pricing (I know, SaaS, but maybe something to think about).

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7yr ago

Mike Coutermarsh

PlanetScale Boost

Maker

@yvoschaap thanks! I definitely need to add a demo. Yes, an image is counted each time a successful request is made to create a new image (downloads are unlimited once an image is created). And it's only counted towards the month that it was created. I originally wanted to do metered billing. And started that way. But it was taking too much time to get working properly. Maybe now that I have rate limiting/usage working, it would be easier to add in.

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7yr ago

Jeff Needles

Aggregations.io

Maker

Yay HTCI is finally live! I've been playing with the API for a little while now -- trying to make the emoji.life OG images a little more fun. Well, coming soon - you'll get things like

It's so lightweight and easy - no need to really host the content and can easily create templates to create images for social, email, etc... GREAT JOB @mscccc

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7yr ago