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Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.

#1
Hi all, My side project, an online image watermarking app, is ready to start showing people, so I'd appreciate your feedback.

http://www.watermarquee.com

The free version is entirely client-side javascript. If there is a good response, I plan to develop the backend to support larger images and additional file types, as well as some other functionality. Since the free version is completely client-side, I can easily host if on Heroku's Varnish cache, which makes this an easy/cheap MVP to try out. Please let me know what you think.

Re: Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.

#3
Great idea!

My two cents: make the homepage much easier. An example could be a big button that says "click here to watermark your own image for free". Another example could be less text - your goal is to have a user try it, so you don't need to explain so much.

Re: Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.

#6
post #4

The idea looks good, as does the website, but on Chromium on Ubuntu 11.10, I get the following on the homepage, which I assume isn't correct (notice the scrollbars): http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4247/selection002dq.png

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. The same thing was happening on Chrome in Windows for awhile, but I thought I had fixed it :(