Show HN: A widget to show off your LinkedIn followers on your website (folowrz.com)

Hey HN,

I'm currently working on my personal website as a consultant and wanted to use my LinkedIn followers as a social trust builder on my site.

So, I built this widget to easily embed it on my website. It looks fun and updates with every new follower.

I hope this is as helpful to you as it is to me. I would love your feedback, please.

Dimitri

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maxim_mazurok 2y ago ↗

Interesting, can it be self-hosted? Otherwise sharing a cookie with 3rd party seems like a pretty big security concern. Also, it will probably expire, but maybe you have a background job to refresh it... Also on the screenshot with your profile, the bio reads "Let's replace you", maybe a different crop would be better :) I also couldn't help but notice that it took a while for a widget to render on the page, maybe some server-side rendering or caching would be good moving forward. Overall it's a pretty cool idea, cheers!

dvisnadi 2y ago ↗

Thanks! That’s really valuable feedback. I’ll do some research and see what I can do!