I don't particularly care for the pricing, like most of the people here. However, you really shouldn't care that much what we think. How are sales amongst the normal people who just want to upload images and do transforms? I could see this doing fairly well with bloggers and such.
Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
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#162"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.
While the tool is extremely simple to replace with something more low level. I think there is no better way than what he chose to actually monetize something like this. Consider the target markets.
Individual bloggers. Too cheap to pay sub. Also too cheap to pay a $10 onetime.
Hackers. Would happily spend whole day implementing the same with a less polished npm package and would never pay for anything anyway.
Professional designers. Can get the same or even better results in the tools they already use with both hands tied behind their back. They don’t need this even if it’s free.
Now to the last and only viable market. Journalists who are lacking tech skills and no designer to back them up. They don’t care how simple the tech behind is, as long as it gives them value. It’s just cheap enough that they don’t have to blink and the recurring revenue from these will offset any non-existent $10 one-off purchases from individuals.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
A bit unfair of you to just plainly state how to circumvent their protection in the comments.
There _is_ no protection. the source is publicly accessible.
The conditional in the code _is_ a protection. It is not fair of you to consider it non-existent just because _you_ can easily bypass it.
Using your argument, it would be fair to circumvent any protection as long as a specialist can trivially bypass it? Remember that 99% of internet users have no idea what "Show page source" actually does, much less what "javascript" is. You are the top 1 percentile power user here.
Arguably a lot of things are not strongly protected per se but rely on specialists not trying to actively trick the system, much less posting their techniques on public forums.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#164Tip for getting good quality website screenshots for presentations from Chrome: - Open developer tools. - Activate the device toolbar. - Set the DPR to 3 and make sure the screen is the width you want to capture. - Press cmd/ctrl-shift-P to bring up the command popup - Type 'screeenshot' and select one of the screenshot options - area, fullsize, node, or just plain screenshot to capture the viewport. Result: high res…
In Firefox, go to Developer Tools > Console.
:screenshot --dpr 3
Add --fullpage if you want a full page screenshot. Add --delay 4 if you want a four second delay to close the Developer Tools.
Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos
#165Tip for getting good quality website screenshots for presentations from Chrome: - Open developer tools. - Activate the device toolbar. - Set the DPR to 3 and make sure the screen is the width you want to capture. - Press cmd/ctrl-shift-P to bring up the command popup - Type 'screeenshot' and select one of the screenshot options - area, fullsize, node, or just plain screenshot to capture the viewport. Result: high res…
This sounded like way too much work, but for some reason I tried it. Then I realized I don't know what DPR is. Or what the device toolbar is (is it the device button you push to emulate different devices?). And ctrl-shift-P didn't do anything. Ah well.
It's Device Pixel Ratio, which I found in the menu with the 3 vertical dots on the upper right corner, after enabling the device thing.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know tools that can capture high quality screen recordings from a browser session? Thinking about the type of video that has lots of dramatic pans and zooms + smooth cursor movement used in marketing videos. I feel like I came across a tool that could do this but can’t find it now / might have been my imagination.
If you're on a Mac, you can just use QuickTime Player. File -> New Screen Recording I think it does pretty well with movement on the screen. Just remember that "stop" is Cmd-Ctrl-Esc!
It can't modify device pixel ratio for higher resolution (that might be needed for zooming and panning in editing).
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#167What is this paid subscription to be able to rotate the screenshot a certain way?
Yes, you pay for the "your mother who takes screenshots by photographing her screen" effect.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here. Thanks for the advice. I have been considering a few different options. Perhaps I could have a preloaded screenshot with the UI already initialised, so I immediately can show off the functionality? I don't know what is the best approach.
Yeah, I don't want to upload my data to a random website I've never heard of, just to see what the heck it does. You NEED a few examples, otherwise users will just close tab.
OP here. I understand this instinct. In this case it doesn't actually get transferred, but stays on the client, as stated in the footer: "Image processing is done in the browser. No image data is stored or transmitted."
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first reaction was “I can barely tell what this does” so it’s hard to feel motivated to take action at that point.
I had the same response. And beyond the motivation factor, the second response was, "I suppose I could test it myself, but I'm not uploading a picture of my screen to a strange website"
OP here. As per the footer text: "Image processing is done in the browser. No image data is stored or transmitted."
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#170This is by a company in the middle of farmer county in Norway. Kudos!