Show the Link (on X!)

Automatically post X links with headlines and URLs (again!)

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Automatically post X links with headlines and URLs (again!)

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Like a lot of people, I was concerned when I saw the latest change that X has made to remove text from links. Enter showthelink! We automatically create high-conversion preview images for links posted on X, that won't leave your subscribers confused.

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Launch tags:Twitter•Marketing•Graphics & Design

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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! 🚀

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3yr ago

Raycast

@paul_hunkin clever! People should stop using X, but barring that, how accessible is this solution?

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3yr ago

Maker

@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.

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3yr ago

Raycast

@paul_hunkin sorry, I mean "accessible" for sight-impaired users. :)

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3yr ago

Maker

An example of how this helps: compare my two tweets to this launch page! https://twitter.com/paul_hunkin/...

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3yr ago

Congratulations on this innovative tool for content creators! Can users customise the appearance and information presented in the image previews?

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3yr ago

Maker

@narendra_solanki Thanks. You can! https://showthe.link/?ref=produc...

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3yr ago

SocialBu

Great tool! It makes it easier for content creators to create engaging previews for their links. Thanks for sharing it!

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3yr ago

Maker

@ayesha_awan1 Thanks so much! I hope everyone finds it useful :)

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3yr ago

I had wished for a return to the previous display, but now that we have this tool, it's no longer relevant.

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3yr ago

Maker

@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!) 😅

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3yr ago