The extension seems great. But I don't see how would you monetize it from the home page. And if this get popular, how will you pay for the hosting and storage?
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#12Firefox recently added some really nice tools for taking screenshots: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-screenshots I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.
Maybe seamless integration with Firefox Send https://send.firefox.com/ will be great
This is really cool. I can see how the e2e encryption could be super valuable. Thanks for suggesting!
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#13Dropbox can integrate with the system screen taker for MacOS. Very useful. Automagically get a link in the clipboard every time you screen. I’ve seen this done so many ways
Looks super useful. I'm all for eliminating steps in typical workflows. I've never been at a company that used Dropbox so didn't even know it existed.
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#14The extension seems great. But I don't see how would you monetize it from the home page. And if this get popular, how will you pay for the hosting and storage?
I'm flexible on monetization patterns for now, but if this were to take off, I'd imagine it'd be some sort of team-based pricing for teams heavily using it and introducing a collaboration-first experience.
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#15its a cool idea, but seriously this seems like another privacy nightmare in the making.
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#16I made this extension out of a frustration from working with my friend, sending screenshots without linking to the article (or design) where it came from. Screenshot HQ solved this by pulling the URL when the screenshot was taken. In order to mimic our workflow as much as possible, it uses the open graph social html tags to load the screenshot directly on the page in Slack. We're thinking about adding comment capabil…
For the specific use of sharing on Slack, one simple way on a Mac is Command-Control-Shift-4, which saves the screenshot image to the clipboard. You can then paste that into Slack.
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#17I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.
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#18I have been using CloudApp for similar use case. It’s pretty good for screenshot sharing with annotations.
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#19I made this extension out of a frustration from working with my friend, sending screenshots without linking to the article (or design) where it came from. Screenshot HQ solved this by pulling the URL when the screenshot was taken. In order to mimic our workflow as much as possible, it uses the open graph social html tags to load the screenshot directly on the page in Slack. We're thinking about adding comment capabil…
For the specific use of sharing on Slack, one simple way on a Mac is Command-Control-Shift-4, which saves the screenshot image to the clipboard. You can then paste that into Slack.
I do the same on Ubuntu: ctrl+shift+PrntScr to screenshot part of your screen to your clipboard.
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#20I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.
You can screenshot DOM structures natively by including them in an SVG , composing an SVG blob URL, rendering it in an tag, and then drawing that to a .
I started a project related to this years ago but never finished it. Now that same-origin canvas taint issues have been fixed in most browsers, maybe it's time for me to work on this again.
A related API that is not accessible to web content is Safari's console.screenshot() utility[1].