Well done, functional and easy to use!
Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
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Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#12Hola hackers! I’m Rishi( https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi ) and I’ve been building Pika( https://pika.style ), a screenshot beautifier app to quickly generate images for marketing, blog posts, social sharing and more. Pika is a result of me spending too much time in designing screenshots in Figma, choosing the gradients, shadows, backgrounds etc. I thought I could quicken this process through a simple app. With Pik…
https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi/status/150145386705311334...
" Just submitted pika.style on HackerNews, if you have ever used this tiny app and found it useful then please help me with upvotes :)"
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Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#13It's so apparent that all the comments here are from your friends (maybe even upvotes to push it to frontpage). This sort of behavior is starting to get more common on Show HNs recently but is really not welcomed. Please keep it clean!
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#14Hola hackers! I’m Rishi( https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi ) and I’ve been building Pika( https://pika.style ), a screenshot beautifier app to quickly generate images for marketing, blog posts, social sharing and more. Pika is a result of me spending too much time in designing screenshots in Figma, choosing the gradients, shadows, backgrounds etc. I thought I could quicken this process through a simple app. With Pik…
Looks great, thanks for offering a free tier as well as making that part open-source. I couldn't find license for the code on GitHub, would suggest to add one. Also, perhaps add some prefix/suffix/icon like `$` for the pro-features on the app.
Thanks for the suggestions, I've updated the repo with paid features and license :)
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#15Hola hackers! I’m Rishi( https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi ) and I’ve been building Pika( https://pika.style ), a screenshot beautifier app to quickly generate images for marketing, blog posts, social sharing and more. Pika is a result of me spending too much time in designing screenshots in Figma, choosing the gradients, shadows, backgrounds etc. I thought I could quicken this process through a simple app. With Pik…
https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi/status/150145386705311334... " Just submitted pika.style on HackerNews, if you have ever used this tiny app and found it useful then please help me with upvotes :)" Guidelines: Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.
I missed it, will keep it in mind. Thanks for sharing.
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#16What is this?. Some silly tool to add an image around your image. I can create this is one hour. Come on. This is shit , not hacker news worth. If this continues too much I am out of here.
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#17A couple of quick thoughts:
Its not really obvious to me what a "screenshot beautifier" _does_. It would be useful to have a (visual?) description of what it does without having to first drop a screenshot into it. I didn't have any screenshots to hand so fairly quickly clicked away.
Pasting an image using Ctrl-V doesn't work for me (Win 10, Firefox 97.0.1)
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#18A couple of quick thoughts: Its not really obvious to me what a "screenshot beautifier" _does_. It would be useful to have a (visual?) description of what it does without having to first drop a screenshot into it. I didn't have any screenshots to hand so fairly quickly clicked away. Pasting an image using Ctrl-V doesn't work for me (Win 10, Firefox 97.0.1)
I think you're right. There needs to be an option to try the app with some demo image. I've noted and will add it :)
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#19The site really should have examples. I'm not feeding my data into an app without first having an idea of the expected outcome. It's nice for repeat visitors that the homepage gets straight to business so maybe have a separate examples page linked to from the nav.
Also, link from the app to the git repo, not just the other direction.
Re: Show HN: An app to quickly turn boring screenshots into beautiful images
#20It always boggles my mind when someone goes through all the effort required to build a product and then launches it via a landing page that has no screenshot and no explanation of what it does.
Anyone who visits your site is already busy and has a million other things to do and sites to visit. If you the deeply passionate creator of the app can't be bothered to take the time to show what your own product does, your visitors are not going to burn their own time trying to figure it out.