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I've launched a couple months ago https://linkz.ai https://linkz.ai Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspir

I've launched a couple months ago https://linkz.ai https://linkz.ai Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code. $500+/m in a first month Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io https://linkz-ai.webflow.io

sambroner 5y ago
Super interesting, I added this (albeit way less pretty) to my personal site and generally got poor reviews. That being said, I'm really enthusiastic about the idea. Example here: https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/ https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/
- vittor1o 5y ago
  Try adding Linkz.ai previews on your blog posts, and get another round of feedback :)
asadlionpk 5y ago
how do you get your users?
- vittor1o 5y ago
  A few channels right now: - Participating in the web dev communities - "Powered by Linkz.ai" footer in the Link preview popups - Campaigns on Product Hunt, Reddit & similar - Soon: Affiliate, LTD, targeted ads for Webflow/Squarespace ecosystems
vasilakisfil 5y ago
this is really good idea, how comes not many sites/companies/people use it?
- vittor1o 5y ago
  I've just started this product late last year; the response has exceeded my expectations.. give it a few more months for sites/companies/people to adopt :)
idreyn 5y ago
This has some neat use cases but I dearly hope it doesn't become the norm...
- vittor1o 5y ago
  Can you elaborate a bit? Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab-overload.
  - idreyn 5y ago
    The rich previews on hover are great. I was referring to the "Immersive Previews", and for the things demoed on your landing page like short forms and Youtube videos, they're a nice experience. I worry about a world where every "sticky" web platform gets caught in an iterated prisoner's dilemma and all decide it's in their best interest to do this. In this world, whenever I want to click a link off of Instagram or Twitter or NYT I end up in an "Immersive Preview" iframe of the site I expected to navigate to. Google AMP everywhere. I would _love_ a world where this kind of thing is closer to a first-class feature of the web -- thinking of Xanadu-style transclusions or even Google's abandoned(?) <portal> element. I would love deep-linking from Github->Jira->Github in the same tab, and this points the way towards that. But if there are a dozen implementations of it floating around, and users have no control or warning over when a link behaves this way, it's just another way to wrest control of the browsing experience away from them. Please be mindful about how you advertise this, is what I'm saying.
  - Xevi 5y ago
    I have nothing against the previews. However when a website hijacks the link to serve a stripped down version of the content locally, it goes against the expectations of the user, and it can really f*k up accessibility tools. This is a bad use of javascript imo. A really bad use. And unfortunately it is being pushed as a way to retain users, meaning that it prioritises profits over everything else. I don't want to be served a fullscreen auto playing video in a pop-up window when I click on a YouTube link. I want to go to YouTube and view it there, where I can like, subscribe, comment, and so on. It breaks my expectations in a bad way, and I can see why people are growing increasingly frustrated with javascript on websites due to this. Sorry for being so negative about this. It's a cool concept, but I also really hope that this never becomes the norm. And that's coming from a web developer, someone that's usually cheering on all advancements in the web.
adrianvincent 5y ago
I really like the logo and web design.
skr5 5y ago
What a great idea ! Why .ai though ?
- vittor1o 5y ago
  Hyperlinks with artificial intelligence ;)

sambroner 5y ago

Super interesting, I added this (albeit way less pretty) to my personal site and generally got poor reviews. That being said, I'm really enthusiastic about the idea. Example here: https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/ https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/

vittor1o 5y ago
Try adding Linkz.ai previews on your blog posts, and get another round of feedback :)

asadlionpk 5y ago

how do you get your users?

vittor1o 5y ago
A few channels right now: - Participating in the web dev communities - "Powered by Linkz.ai" footer in the Link preview popups - Campaigns on Product Hunt, Reddit & similar - Soon: Affiliate, LTD, targeted ads for Webflow/Squarespace ecosystems

vasilakisfil 5y ago

this is really good idea, how comes not many sites/companies/people use it?

vittor1o 5y ago
I've just started this product late last year; the response has exceeded my expectations.. give it a few more months for sites/companies/people to adopt :)

idreyn 5y ago

This has some neat use cases but I dearly hope it doesn't become the norm...

vittor1o 5y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab-overload.
- idreyn 5y ago
  The rich previews on hover are great. I was referring to the "Immersive Previews", and for the things demoed on your landing page like short forms and Youtube videos, they're a nice experience. I worry about a world where every "sticky" web platform gets caught in an iterated prisoner's dilemma and all decide it's in their best interest to do this. In this world, whenever I want to click a link off of Instagram or Twitter or NYT I end up in an "Immersive Preview" iframe of the site I expected to navigate to. Google AMP everywhere. I would _love_ a world where this kind of thing is closer to a first-class feature of the web -- thinking of Xanadu-style transclusions or even Google's abandoned(?) <portal> element. I would love deep-linking from Github->Jira->Github in the same tab, and this points the way towards that. But if there are a dozen implementations of it floating around, and users have no control or warning over when a link behaves this way, it's just another way to wrest control of the browsing experience away from them. Please be mindful about how you advertise this, is what I'm saying.
- Xevi 5y ago
  I have nothing against the previews. However when a website hijacks the link to serve a stripped down version of the content locally, it goes against the expectations of the user, and it can really f*k up accessibility tools. This is a bad use of javascript imo. A really bad use. And unfortunately it is being pushed as a way to retain users, meaning that it prioritises profits over everything else. I don't want to be served a fullscreen auto playing video in a pop-up window when I click on a YouTube link. I want to go to YouTube and view it there, where I can like, subscribe, comment, and so on. It breaks my expectations in a bad way, and I can see why people are growing increasingly frustrated with javascript on websites due to this. Sorry for being so negative about this. It's a cool concept, but I also really hope that this never becomes the norm. And that's coming from a web developer, someone that's usually cheering on all advancements in the web.

adrianvincent 5y ago

I really like the logo and web design.

skr5 5y ago

What a great idea ! Why .ai though ?

vittor1o 5y ago
Hyperlinks with artificial intelligence ;)