[fookyong]

Founder here - I provided a few more details here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25936813

I agree with you, automated open graph images are not a problem worth paying lots of money to solve. That's pretty much the exact realisation I had at the mid point in this timeline - see the "Rebrand" section for the details.

So at that point I pivoted Bannerbear to be able to generate any kind of image, for any purpose.

New use cases are things like, generating ad variations, generating instagram posts, generating dynamic in-app images (e.g. in the welcome email for Bannerbear you get a personalized image header which is generated on-the-fly by Bannerbear) and these use cases are a lot more valuable to the end users.