Most sites don’t bother with Open Graph images for every page (blog posts, product pages, docs, etc.), which leads to boring or broken previews on Twitter/LinkedIn/Slack.

I’ve been experimenting with a hosted service where you add just one meta tag like:

<meta property="og:image" content="https://uselinkshot.com/acc_123/tmp_456?url=https://yoursite.com/page" />

When someone shares your page, the OG image is generated dynamically (via browser rendering), cached with stale-while-revalidate, and served quickly. You can set up templates for consistent branding, titles, etc.

This avoids:

Manually designing images for each page

Running your own Puppeteer/Playwright setup

Adding heavy infra for what’s essentially a small but important detail

My questions for HN:

Is this actually a pain point you’ve run into?

Would you trust a third-party service for OG images, or prefer rolling your own?

What would make this useful enough to adopt (API access, cache-busting, more control, pricing)?

I’d love to hear whether this scratches a real itch or is just a “nice-to-have.”