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Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

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165 points talljohnson1234 | 2 comments | 11 Mar 25 20:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.428s | source

Hey HN,

I’ve been an indie hacker for a while, but I haven’t had much success with my past projects. Recently, I came across Marc Lou’s advice about building free tools just for fun, so I decided to give it a shot.

I built Metacheck, a simple tool that lets you preview how any link will appear on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Telegram, and other platforms. No API keys, no setup—just paste a link and see the preview.

Why I built this I often ran into issues where social platforms displayed broken or unexpected link previews. Debugging Open Graph meta tags was annoying, so I made a tool to make it easier.

How it works Fetches metadata from any URL Parses Open Graph & Twitter Card tags Shows real-time previews of how the link will look when shared

Try it out: https://metacheck.appstate.co/

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gigatree ◴[15 Mar 25 11:07 UTC] No.43371720[source]▶
Probably want to have https appended automatically
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1. talljohnson1234 ◴[15 Mar 25 15:04 UTC] No.43372979[source]▶
Would push a fix for this, apologies for the inconvenience.
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2. talljohnson1234 ◴[19 Mar 25 16:04 UTC] No.43413789[source]▶
a fix has been pushed for this, you can try it now.

I Deeply appreciate the feedback.