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Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by mynameisvlad »

Maursault wrote: post #171
mynameisvlad wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What even is this criticism? An ad hominem attack based on a single word and your extreme displeasure of it?

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Do you think I give a shit about what you think of my superfluous words? Huh?

Do you have anything substantive to say about the comments themselves as opposed to a hyperfixated diatribe based on a single superfluous word? Because everyone and their grandmothers is bored of your “holier than thou” soapbox ramblings about how you perceive random people on the internet.

And just because you clearly don’t get it, the word “even” can be used for emphasis when something you are reacting to is absurd. Crazy thing, English, eh?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by wvenable »

mikaelaast wrote: post #172
icelancer wrote: post #161

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.

OP here. Thanks! I know what I'm getting myself into when posting here. This crowd usually has strong reservations when it comes to subscription based business models, which I can understand. For me the monetization aspect is a necessary "evil" to justify spending so much of my free time outside of my day job and obligations as a family man.

What about an option for $5 for a month of access but no subscription? I originally considered $1 a per image download but then I thought it might take some finessing to get the image right and simply having a month to mess around might be a better deal.

This is a pretty cool tool. I might be one of those freeloaders that is happy with an SD image but I could really see using this. I picked a random screenshot of code I had and the result was awesome.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by alex_suzuki »

NikolaNovak wrote: post #92

My 100 Croatian lipa : This feels like something that's too expensive for a random individual (I've become allergic over time to simple things that insist on subscription as opposed to pay once). But too cheap for enterprise use. Consider putting together few more simple tools, build a quick pipeline, and offer per seat and enterprise licensing.

I agree, I would also try to market this is as one tool (“Dramatic Screenshot”) of a larger “Screenshot Toolbox” or sth.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by wvenable »

swatcoder wrote: post #87

With all due and sincere respect to mikaelaast's effort and ambition, I can't believe we're at a point where the implementation of an image filter can ask for a automatically renewing $5 per month subscription and nobody blinks. We used to blink, didn't we?

You are not the target market.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by ldenoue »

jacobsimon wrote: post #154
ldenoue wrote: post #105

Shameless plug for https://screenrun.app/ which makes it super easy to create video out of screenshots

I like it! Do you have any examples where it can animate between different screenshots or a video? I think something like that would be super popular.

I should add more examples yeah good idea

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by ldenoue »

p0larboy wrote: post #143
ldenoue wrote: post #105

Shameless plug for https://screenrun.app/ which makes it super easy to create video out of screenshots

The demo video makes me feel dizzy. Easy on the bounce.

Yep I’ll replace with something softer and have perhaps 2 examples on the landing page: one for a screenshot and one for the video of a screen

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by dharma1 »

mikaelaast wrote: post #38
movedx wrote: post #32

"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?

Maybe a couple of freebies (with watermarks with link to your site for viral growth and license for personal use), then upsell with credits. You mentioned newspapers - I think you could charge a bit more for a full commercial license for the outputs - but it is fairly trivial for a graphic designer to replicate this in photoshop in 2 mins so there is probably a limit to the max fee.

Subscriptions are good for recurring revenue but maybe offer that as one option, not the only option? A lot of people drop off at that point.

I used to do these tilted 3D dof screenshots in After Effects a lot for videos - that is a use case I would pay for, if it’s quick enough - it was always a bit time consuming in AE and also a lot of people need videos but not everyone can use AE.

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by ldenoue »

mikaelaast wrote: post #38
movedx wrote: post #32

"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?

For my own app https://screenrun.app/ that also produces outputs, I was thinking credits: eg $5 gives you 50 screenshots (or videos in my case). No subscription and people get debited only when they use the tool. Would be nice to add referrals so they could earn credits when others sign up?

Re: Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

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Post by [deleted] »

mcny wrote: post #120
1000100_1000101 wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I uploaded a screenshot of the front page of hacker news https://i.imgur.com/aTqN3qA.png

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