How to Generate Open Graph Images Dynamically (No Puppeteer)

You know what's annoying? Spinning up a headless browser just to generate a social preview image. Puppeteer works. Sure. But it's slow, memory-hungry, and a nightmare to deploy on serverless. I spent way too long fighting Chrome binaries on Vercel before I gave up and looked for something better. Turns out there's a simpler way. The Problem With Puppeteer-Based OG Images Here's the typical flow: Spin up a headless Chrome instance Render an HTML page with your dynamic content Screenshot it Serve that screenshot as your OG image It works on your local machine. Then you deploy it and everything breaks. Chrome needs specific system libraries. Cold starts take 5-10 seconds. Memory usage spikes. And if you're on a free tier anywhere, good luck. I've burned entire weekends on this. Enter OGPix OGPix takes a completely different approach. Instead of running a browser, it generates images through an API. You send parameters, you get back an image URL. That's it. No Chrome. No Puppeteer. No depl