I made a Chrome extension for sharing news article quotes as images
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If you are a writer or someone who likes to share news, this could help make sharing articles to your social media following much easier.Just highlight a quote, right click → Create Image and it generates a clean vertical card with the quote, the publication, the author, and the article title. The image can be either a 1x1 square or 9x16 vertical which is perfect for social media stories.
HN · launched Apr 30, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: browser extensions · 257 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -39% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 257 launches in browser extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a Chrome extension that captures selected text and webpage metadata from the DOM and renders it onto an HTML5 canvas as an image.
Discussion
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 364 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #362 of 365 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 180 days after the earliest competitor.
- Nexstract · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- CaptionSpark · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- QuoteCard · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- News Photo Card · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Copy Text from Image · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- MemePhoto AI · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image · hn · 2026-03-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DeepShit · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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