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Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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Why do you need to use a snide tone to convey your point? Just make it in plain language, don’t be rude.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#53It would be nice to have a few more examples. The only example I see on the homepage is hidden in the video, both hard to see and not always visible.
OP here. Valid point! I find it hard to strike a good balance between demonstrating value and cutting to the chase. I wanted it to come off as a utility that lets you take action immediately.
My first reaction was “I can barely tell what this does” so it’s hard to feel motivated to take action at that point.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#54Great results on the first attempt I did. When I wanted to export the result in highest available resolution, it asked me to subscribe for $5/month. I only need 1 single screenshot, so I’m not going to subscribe, but I can see this being used by big newspaper companies. Good luck with your project!
OP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.
Took me 2 scrolls to find an image probably generated by your tool.
https://www.tek.no/nyheter/nyhet/i/KnWn0G/ai-flause-for-goog...
You probably should make a personal account which limits the amount of images you can generate a month (10?) and a business account which offers unlimited generation but for a steep price.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#55"Charged monthly at only $5 for individuals or $3 per person for teams of 3 and up. Cancel anytime." - excellent tool, terrible business model. No on wants to pay $5/month for a utility.
OP here. How would you monetize it?
I would consider the value to the consumer and use a value based pricing model.
The value you're offering is overcoming a few challenges.
First, the technical challenges of designing these graphics yourself - you have to pay for potentially expensive software suites (Photoshop, etc.) to get this kind of work done, and then you have to learn how-to do it. There is a financial and educational curve to climb there.
Then the second challenge is time. It takes time to sit and fiddle with a complex piece of software to make a screenshot do what your utility does.
So your value is you provide a single piece of software that does one job very well, and it's near instant and requires little to no learning curve whatsoever.
Further, you need to consider your own personal objectives with this software. I'm not in this field, so I do not have the foresight to see the potential growth with this software, therefore from my perspective it's a cute tool that does one thing. You might know different and can see potentially big markets.
Anyway. I would likely price this as a $15 one time purchase at the non-commercial level (targeting everyday Joe Blogs) with one year of upgrades, and around $50/year/user at the commercial end.
It really depends on the market and the user's pain points, Jobs To be Done, etc.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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Why do you need to use a snide tone to convey your point? Just make it in plain language, don’t be rude.
Yeah fair, I'm one one today. I genuinely thought this was a joke at first. But you're right, I should just put my money where my mouth is and make a github pages or similar that replicates this functionality as something that you can download and keep forever, how hard can it be?
It's utterly disgraceful to charge money for something like this as a service, but that doesn't excuse my conduct in response. The implications of validating this sort of rent collecting are insidious and serve. We really need to re-evaluate what our definition of 'value' is as a society.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#57I'd pay for one-time pro features. I don't want a subscription, but I'm willing to pay to use this service a few times a year maybe. There are probably more like me.
Maybe sell 10 pro edits or something like that?
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#58Great results on the first attempt I did. When I wanted to export the result in highest available resolution, it asked me to subscribe for $5/month. I only need 1 single screenshot, so I’m not going to subscribe, but I can see this being used by big newspaper companies. Good luck with your project!
OP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.
$5/yr is too much for the casual user and too little for big newspapersq
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#59Why not skew, mask and blur with photoshop in 10 seconds?
you mean aside from the fact that it requires downloading a huge multi-purpose program that starts at $21/mo which is built for significantly more than just those features and the user must use a lot more brain space for what they want to be a simple task?
photopea.com
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#60"Charged monthly at only $5 for individuals or $3 per person for teams of 3 and up. Cancel anytime." - excellent tool, terrible business model. No on wants to pay $5/month for a utility.
Yeah, I was initially interested, but then I saw that it was a subscription and I just stopped looking.