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

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curiousigor wrote: post #38
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…

Congrats on the launch! I love apps like these. It's great to see what someone who just started to learn to code can achieve and how well it is accepted by the community. I mean, these simple niche apps have sometimes so much impact to a specific community, because they're solving a specific problem that people forgot (or didn't think) to address.

Thank you, I'm glad to hear you like it!

I'm happy it was received so well because I had a lot of doubts when I launched it. There are still bugs to be fixed and features I want to add but I first wanted to see the response to the MVP before I spent months developing this further.

I suspect the simplicity is what people like about it so much. It only does one thing and has one button so it's easy to use and also very easy to try.

Hopefully this inspires others that also recently started coding that you really don't need to build a super complex product to do well!

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

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Post by curiousigor »

0verAchiever wrote: post #41
curiousigor wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congrats on the launch! I love apps like these. It's great to see what someone who just started to learn to code can achieve and how well it is accepted by the community. I mean, these simple niche apps have sometimes so much impact to a specific community, because they're solving a specific problem that people forgot (or didn't think) to address.

Thank you, I'm glad to hear you like it! I'm happy it was received so well because I had a lot of doubts when I launched it. There are still bugs to be fixed and features I want to add but I first wanted to see the response to the MVP before I spent months developing this further. I suspect the simplicity is what people like about it so much. It only does one thing and has one button so it's easy to use and also very…

That were exactly my thoughts when I did a similarly simple project this year. No need for the product to be perfect or completely finished if you're putting it out there for free (in my opinion).

Also, there will always be room for improvement and people wo won't like it or demand features, so remember to keep your head up even in those situations and be proud of what you've accomplished.

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

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Post by 0verAchiever »

leetbulb wrote: post #11

OSX/macOS has already been doing this for me for quite some time. I always try to frame my screenshots to look fairly "presentable." E.g.: https://i.imgur.com/rozu1Do.png Edit: I figure my comment probably comes off a bit negative. I think this is a cool service and I would likely use it if there were an API available. Props to coming up with a neat little app to develop and bring to the public...simple ideas like th…

Thanks for your clarification. MacOS might solve your need for making screenshots look presentable but there are still many situations where it doesn't solve the problem (e.g. only showing a small section of a page instead of the full window, people using Windows/Ubuntu or mobile devices). That's what I am aiming to solve with Screely.

I also want to add many more features to Screely that MacOS can't do such as gradient backgrounds, custom image backgrounds with company logo, tweet this image and much more.

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

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Post by Jleagle »

Twisell wrote: post #35

I might be old school but it always seems very dubious for me to rely on a web server controled by who the f... know for such basic task that can be done more efficiently offline. And also why is it free? Can we be sure the service won’t store every image send? Would be a nice way to gather free real word training example for a neural network so it can learn what frame contain nothing useful and what frame contain lo…

They say nothing is sent to the server, and why lie when it's so easy to check if they do or not.

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

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Post by cygned »

null0pointer wrote: post #39

On mac: + + then pressing will allow you to select a window for screenshot which includes the window border, title, and transparent shadow.

Hold while clickling the window to remove the shadow.

Hold while clicking to skip the desktop and copy it to the clipboard directly.

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

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Post by ebj73 »

I first thought that the idea was to lend "fake credibility" to an image, by making it seem like the output from an application.

But I guess the main idea must be prototyping, and to show off how a particular design might look in the end, once implemented as part of an application.

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

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Post by 0verAchiever »

archagon wrote: post #22

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 o…

>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.

As the others have stated, complexity does not equal value to the user. I think that the simplicity is exactly what people like about it. It doesn't try to do everything, it only does one thing and that makes it easy to use and easy to understand the value proposition.

People on PH and HN are very tolerant of MVP's and understand they won't function perfectly and not have many features. It only does one thing and it does it well in 95% of the cases.

>Is it a matter of getting an influencer to post it for you? Does wip.chat help with this? I find it utterly bizarre.

There is no secret to doing well during your launch (or at least, not that I know of), but it's a combination of lots of smaller variables (timing, luck, optimizing your post and more). As you can see I hunted Screely myself from a relatively new account so I don't think this plays a role.

You are not allowed to ask for upvotes so wip.chat does not help in this way. There are plenty of products that came out of wip.chat that did not do well at all.

However, I think there is a huge amount of value in being part of a community of makers/developers/designers. I have gotten feedback from others during development, they helped me when I got stuck with programming issues and they gave me tips for how I should launch. Wip chat will not magically make your launch do well but it will help you make a product than can do well on it's own.

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

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Post by genezeta »

0verAchiever wrote: post #30
Mandatum wrote: post #18

I don't see any fake window? Has that been disabled?

It has definitely not been disabled! Could you tell me what browser and OS you are using?

Happening here too; on Firefox/Win10.

Something that seems unrelated is that, in your drawWindow function you seem to be assigning an onload handler and then immediately overwriting it with a different onload handler. This is not really the problem, but I mention it just so you know.

Now, the actual problem seems to be there's a long standing bug in Firefox where it won't draw SVG to neither canvas nor Image elements if they don't have a proper width and height set (and it seems it has to be pixel based, a percentage width/height won't work either). I've just tried adding it to the template string you have in drawWindow and it does seem to solve the problem.

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