December 5, 2025
Astro Migration
Migrated frontend to Astro for better SEO and crawlability.
- Migrated from React SPA to Astro for server-side rendering and improved SEO.
- Enhanced crawlability with static site generation.
December 4, 2025
Cloudflare R2 & Developer Experience
Set up Clouadflare R2 as our storage infrastructure. We now return the R2 url instead of the raw image. Preparing for integrations with nocode tools.
- Integrated Cloudflare R2 for high-speed image storage.
- Added /generate-preview endpoint for raw PNG responses.
- Added passing in profile pic via URL.
December 1, 2025
Performance & Polish
Spent some time optimizing performance. Compressed assets, migrated the FE to Cloudflare pages and moved the API to its own subdomain for better stability.
- Moved API to api.socialrenders.com.
- Implemented server-side font caching to speed up rendering.
- Migrated frontend to Cloudflare pages for faster load times.
- Launched the engineering blog.
November 22, 2025
Launch
Launch day! After a few intense days of building, Social Renders is live. Started with a simple goal: an easy to use automation tool to generate social media screenshots. Launched with simple rendering, Google OAuth login and early bird pricing.
- Initial launch with Twitter/X, Reddit, LinkedIn, and Threads templates.
- Stripe integration for subscriptions and Google OAuth for authentication.
- API key authentication and usage tracking.