Ask HN: Show a webpage's metadata in a popup when you hover over its link?

4 points by shash7 ↗ HN
Hey folks I'm trying to validate an idea for a browser extension which shows a popup when you hover over a link. This popup shows metadata of that webpage including comment count, followers, following, etc and other metrics.

I've been working on this for a few months and I enjoy using it. It has saved a lot of my time browsing large lists of links(Eg: https://github.com/nuxt-community/awesome-nuxt)

Would you be interested in using something like this? Here's a small preview: https://linkpreviews.io

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Sure. It would be cool if it read the URL's JSON-LD / OpenGraph structured data then displayed a thumbnail image. Maybe show a summary of outgoing links and incoming links for SEO analysis.
Yep, it does exactly that right now. It doesn't show anything SEO related although with enough demand I can make that work too.

Checkout this preview here: https://linkpreview.io