{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Still Early","title":"LinkedIn broke my SaaS","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1931,"description":"In this episode:\nThe OG Kit LinkedIn saga: three days of debugging why Open Graph images stopped rendering, and the weirdly simple fix\nWhy paying for a tool like OG Kit is worth it (someone else deals with this stuff so you don't have to)\nTailwind's revamped partners page and the thinking behind turning it into a filterable directory\nPhone.inc's infrastructure decision (build vs. buy), the team settling in, and the first TestFlight invites going out\nThe case for outbound sales in SaaS, and why Peter is weirdly excited to make cold calls\n\n---\nRecorded outside in Niklas' garden, with his robot lawnmower making a threatening cameo in the background.\nPeter kicks off with the OG Kit story he'd been promising. A customer emailed to say they thought OG Kit was banned on LinkedIn: images rendered fine when hosted as static files, but not when generated through OG Kit. LinkedIn is a big chunk of the audience, so this was stressful. Peter walks through three days of debugging, testing different domains and URL structures, talking to Claude, trying a Cloudflare worker proxy, and looking into Cloudflare for SaaS (which would've eaten about 10% of OG Kit's revenue in per-domain fees). The actual fix turned out to be much simpler: LinkedIn's bot was choking on his robots.txt, and explicitly allowing the LinkedIn bot at the top of the file made everything work again, on the OG Kit domain directly. No custom domains needed. Huge relief, especially since the whole point of OG Kit is to stay small and simple. It's also a good argument for why paying for a tool like this is worth it: someone else absorbs the random platform breakage so you don't have to.\nOn the Tailwind side, Peter shipped a revamp of the partners page (formerly the sponsors page). The big idea is to make it work more like a directory, so you can filter the ~70 companies by category. That's better for people browsing, and it also makes the sponsorships more valuable and easier to sell: being the third email company...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/jiN5sNwxC3favF-CuribFhPuNYrIJomhSIW6PRT4RAk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hYTNj/MDZmN2Y1ZjQxYjEx/MjA1YWIzYzhlNWYy/ZmExYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}