# Why IndiePreview exists

> Preview a public page's link cards for X, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and WhatsApp using the tags its server returns.

By turushan.

Published: 2026-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2026-10-05T15:44:21Z

Canonical: https://indiepreview.com/blog/why-indiepreview-exists/

IndiePreview does one job. You paste a public URL, and it shows modeled cards based on that page's Open Graph and X Card tags: X, LinkedIn, Slack, Discord, iMessage, and WhatsApp.

The mockups are drawn from the tags in the fetched HTML. They are not screenshots from the
platforms. Every verdict links the platform's own documentation and shows the date that rule was
last checked. Where a platform publishes no exact rule, the page says the mockup is a model rather
than a documented fact.

What it will never do: ask for an account, sell a plan, keep a history of what anyone checked, or
guess tags that were not in the HTML. If a page adds its tags with JavaScript, or answers a
challenge page instead of HTML, IndiePreview says so and stops.

Read [how far a preview result goes](https://indiepreview.com/#does-a-ready-status-match-what-the-platform-will-show). Use [IndiePreview](https://indiepreview.com/) to inspect the tags a public page sends and compare its modeled link cards.

## Sources

- https://developer.x.com/en/docs/x-for-websites/cards/overview/markup
- https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a521928/making-your-website-shareable-on-linkedin
- https://docs.slack.dev/messaging/unfurling-links-in-messages/
- https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/42500550752919-About-Discord-Link-Previews-and-the-Discordbot
- https://developer.apple.com/documentation/technotes/tn3156-create-rich-previews-for-messages
- https://developers.facebook.com/documentation/business-messaging/whatsapp/link-previews/