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Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo »

abcd_f wrote: post #18

Is this a toy project or are you guys planning to develop it further? There is a couple of really neat opportunities to turn this sort of service into a good business.

It’s a test of the water in regards to a more user focussed website snapshotting service. Rather than the usual aimed at integrating into third parties. In reality it was put together in a couple of hours as a POC - underneath the covers it uses the code from main project http://boardcast.it which is still pretty experimental.

Love to hear of any ideas/suggestions you have, feel free to drop me a line neil AT snapito.com if you like too. I’m all ears.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo »

tumblestrap wrote: post #5

This is a cool hack! I think the next step is to think about what kind of problem this technology could solve. For example, I would use this tool if I could input a width and height to dynamically generate snapshots of websites at different screen resolutions.

Why thank you kind sir/lady.

So this came about because people keep asking me for what tool to use to full page snapshots. And while there are tools that do it on your local machine, most web tools are just focussed on integrating with other sites not the user experience. So I thought I’d give it a quick go - I’ll probably add the scaling stuff at some point, just want to keep it nice and easy for users at the mo.

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo »

petercooper wrote: post #17

OK, great effort getting this up and running but the font rendering is, well, not good. For comparison: http://no.gd/p/snapito-20120217-043956.jpg I set out to tackle this problem a few years ago and while it was easy to rig up stuff to do this in Linux, getting anywhere near the rendering quality that I saw in OS X was impossible. It seems it may still be :-) It was a couple of years ago now and I asked on Twitter i…

Yeah I think it’s the ‘with finesse part’ that is worth pursuing for sure.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by JoshTriplett »

hashbo wrote: post #40
JoshTriplett wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh, interesting! I use Firefox 10, and I didn't realize that that validation came from the browser rather than your page.

Josh if you see it still let me know. I just hacked a quick JS fix and tested in FF10 and all seems to be well. But as you know each version of each browser has it’s own little features :-)

Seems to work now. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo »

thealoof wrote: post #13
JoshTriplett wrote: post #8

I typed in "example.org", and got back "Please enter a URL". For convenience, consider automatically assuming " http:// in the front if the user doesn't specify a URL scheme. (Please do continue allowing URLs with http:// or https:// explicitly specified, though.) You shouldn't make that assumption if you provide an API in the future (API callers should specify full valid URLs), but it would make the current web inte…

+1 for the anti-aliasing

Added, and extra fonts and colour depth fixed :-)
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