Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots • Hacker News Board

This is great. I've had to engineer this feature once before (updating an image status tag on Github issues), and was surprised it was so hard to find resources to solve that problem.

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by babelfish » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:50 PM UTC

Very cool. How does Plus handle updating screenshots taken on authenticated pages once that authentication has expired?

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by lancesells » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:52 PM UTC

Really interesting tool and not even quite sure how the technology works. It's opening it's own browser window (hidden) and capturing the same x/y pixels? Pretty clever.

Also, does anyone know what this new design trend is called? The bordered / minimal-but-not look?

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by chaboud » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:52 PM UTC

This seems like a spectacular way to break permissions restrictions and escape data to non-authorized entities. If it's successful, it's the sort of thing that will be brutally blocked by IT all over the place.

Very slick, though.

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by remixz » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:54 PM UTC

Hey, I helped build this! Thanks for submitting this.

I'm an engineering manager at Plus — would be happy to answer anyone's questions about our product. You can also shoot me an email at zach(at)plusdocs.com if you'd like to hear more about what we're up to.

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by sippeangelo » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:54 PM UTC

The landing page seems very focused on the “dashboard” use case for Plus, but the domain (plusdocs.com) sounds to me like it was originally intended to keep product screenshots in documentation updated. Was there a pivot? Is it still suitable for that use case?

Re: Show HN: Plus – Self-updating screenshots

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Post by pphysch » Tue, Jan 17, 2023, 6:55 PM UTC

breck wrote: post #3

This is so clever. Love it. Would love a version that just runs locally without sending things to the cloud.

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