MetaShort

Quickly change a 🔗 link's social media appearance

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Quickly change a 🔗 link's social media appearance

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MetaShort lets you easily customize how your link appears when shared on social media without the need to modify meta tags or code.

Launch tags:Productivity•Social Media•Analytics

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GiveYaw

Maker

Hello Product Hunt 👋 It's crazy to see something I've made on Product Hunt, and I'm so excited to share MetaShort with all of you! ❓ Why Working as a web developer I've had a lot of interaction with social media promoters and their frustrations over meta tags. There might be an event coming up in a week that they need to promote, but when they post the event's link on Twitter there's no image and the title/description are generic company text. Getting the tags changed will take a change request, a meeting, and a deployment (at which time the event is already over). 🔗 How MetaShort aims to make social media promotion easy. You enter your link on MetaShort and then completely customize how it will appear on Twitter, Facebook, and more. You can fix broken images and bad text. Or you could have one image & text for Twitter and a different image & text for Facebook and compare the clicks each link receives. You could even share your post 10 days from an event with the title "10 Days Until Our Sales Event", and then edit the title to be "Our Big Sales Event is Today!" on the day of the event. 🚀 Features - Customize your link's appearance when shared on social media - Edit your link's title, description, Twitter card style, Open Graph tags and more - A/B test meta tags with different versions of the same link - View statistics for how many people click your link and where they came from - Save links to your account and update them at any time (even after they've been shared) I have a ton of other features in the pipeline and would love to know what the community thinks about MetaShort. If this is something you could see yourself using, let me know! If not, tell me what's wrong with it! Thanks for reading my wall of text and for checking out MetaShort, you rock 🙌 A special thanks to Arun for hunting me today 👍

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8yr ago

Hunter

@alexwhitedev Anytime! Thank you for MetaShort! I have always seen links break too, without images, and it bugs me a lot MetaShort can change this.

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8yr ago

Workast

Congrats on your launch! I think you are going to save a lot of people a lot of time. You just need to get to the right audience now. A few comments: - Design: I think your top bar is way too big and your product name is not there. In the homepage the input form to put the link takes my whole screen (mac 15in) which makes me feel uncomfortable lol I think I would centre it and remove everything else, your tag line explains it all, so you don't want ppl scrolling around, you can have a section like product tour or similar - Price: $10/month is too little. I would change $99 / month. Your customers are going to be social media ppl from medium and large business or agency. They will use 1 account for everything so at $10 is not going to be worth your time. - The edit page: Start with the form, title, description and a photo, and after show me the final link and how to preview it, but make it more clear that they need to do something first. Hope you don't mind all this feedback and all the best.

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8yr ago

Spike

@guillegette $99/month, that's a little steep. I would suggest to have multiple pricing depending on the type of your audience

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8yr ago

BrewSpoon

This is amazing! Great job @alexwhitedev 🙌

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@pluckyluke Thanks you!

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8yr ago

Very cool. This should come in handy for those sharing DocSend links on social. @alexwhitedev Where does LinkedIn fall on your roadmap? And API access? @justinediprete

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@justinediprete @arielklein Hi Ari, thanks for checking it out! Great thought with DocSend! An API is definitely on my roadmap. I would love to see others integrating MetaShort through an API, and it will help me build out some features I have in my head (such as a chat bot interface to MetaShort). As for LinkedIn, it seems they recognize Open Graph tags (like Facebook), so setting those should work. I'll be expanding the Open Graph options very soon. Eventually I'd like to implement their API (as well as others) so that you can share straight from MetaShort.

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8yr ago

Letters Across Time

Love the idea, any idea how something like this affects the SEO benefits of social media posts/relevance? I worry that since it isn't linking directly, search engines might be confused about the connection.

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@nperry302 Hi Nic, thanks so much for taking a look! From what I understand search engines are smart enough to realize when a link shortener is used. In fact, Twitter has its own link shortener that is automatically used when links are posted on the site.

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8yr ago

Letters Across Time

@alexwhitedev True, probably just SEO paranoia on my part... :) I'll give it a shot!

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8yr ago

Spike

@nperry302 I think it will have the same effects as the urls shared from Buffer do. Isn't that right @alexwhitedev?

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@nperry302 @ktkaushik I haven't used Buffer (and their site isn't letting me create an account at the moment), but from the looks of it they probably do a similar method, so yes the effect should be the same in terms of SEO.

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8yr ago

Interesting to see this tool and I will be curating it and sharing it with my digital and social comms students. FYI the link to the website https://www.producthunt.com/r/14... does not seem to be working for me - not sure if there was a specific message for people coming from PH to your site?

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@krishnade Wow thanks, I really appreciate it! Let me know if there's any changes you would like to see. MetaShort is built for the community, so I'm completely open to any ideas! Interesting on the link, you can try going directly through https://metashort.co?ref=product... There should be a message for PH at the top of the site.

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8yr ago

@alexwhitedev You are very welcome and thanks for the link

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8yr ago

Great!

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8yr ago

GiveYaw

Maker

@sebaszielinski Thanks a lot!

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8yr ago

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