Generating thumbnails from PDFs, DOCs, and other files is surprisingly painful — slow, clunky, or requires APIs.
We built a simple solution internally for The Drive AI: just prepend preview.thedrive.ai/ to any file URL and get an instant thumbnail. Files aren’t stored and are deleted immediately.
Now we’re releasing it for free: https://preview.thedrive.ai/
Curious to see what else we can do with this.