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Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by archagon »

This looks like a great idea, so good work. Looking forward to seeing how it develops in the future.

Tangentially, though, I'd love to know how such a simple, half-functional, and clearly proof-of-concept site can garner almost a thousand upvotes on ProductHunt?! I've submitted substantially more complex (and finished) products in the past that have only gotten 5-40 upvotes and like 2 comments a pop. Is it a matter of getting an influencer to post it for you? Does wip.chat help with this? I find it utterly bizarre.

(Yes, I'm jelly.)

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by naikrovek »

0verAchiever wrote: post #4
perk wrote: post #3

Looks useful, congrats on the launch!. One thing, since the page says you're not uploading images to your server(s) - you might want to rename the "Upload the screenshot" button to something that reflects that. Good luck!

Hadn't even thought about that! Replacing it by something like 'insert' does not feel accurate either but I'm not a native english speaker. Is there any synonym to 'upload' or 'insert' that would make more sense in this case and make it clear that everything is handled client-side?

"Provide", "Select", "Choose", "Pick"... Anything but "Upload"

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by sarabande »

0verAchiever wrote: post #2

I regularly want to share what I've worked on with others on Twitter or Slack/Telegram. However, sharing a simple screenshot always was a bit too bland for my taste... I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc. You can do this in Photoshop or Sketch with some templates but that takes a lot of time if you just quickly want to share something with friends or co…

Cool product! Mind sharing what kind of deployment architecture you used? I'm curious what beginning programmers go to for such things.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by 0verAchiever »

sarabande wrote: post #24
0verAchiever wrote: post #2

I regularly want to share what I've worked on with others on Twitter or Slack/Telegram. However, sharing a simple screenshot always was a bit too bland for my taste... I wanted to make it look better. Give it a background, put it in a fake window with some shadows etc. You can do this in Photoshop or Sketch with some templates but that takes a lot of time if you just quickly want to share something with friends or co…

Cool product! Mind sharing what kind of deployment architecture you used? I'm curious what beginning programmers go to for such things.

The site runs on Netlify. I love it!

Easy to setup, add https and offers deploying from the command line right away.

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

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Post by 0verAchiever »

slig wrote: post #17

Suggestion: an effect like the one Amazon uses on their blog/docs about AWS. I'm on mobile now, but if you don't know what I'm talking about I'll find an example.

Do you mean something like this? https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iot-1-click-use-simple-...

The solid black border around the image?

Re: Show HN: Screely – Instantly turn screenshots into beautiful images

#29

Post by 0verAchiever »

riquito wrote: post #21

Congratulations on the release. In "Coming Soon", do the lines with strikethrough mean that the feature has been implemented or removed from the plans?

Thank you!

The strikethrough means the feature has been implemented and I'm working on the next one.

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