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

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Post by jasonshen »

amne wrote: post #180
mikaelaast wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OP here. I don't do any cloud computing to deliver the service. It is essentially a pure JavaScript-application running on the client.

then what's stopping me from sandboxing this and .. not paying anything?

Goodwill. And the fact that people can do any number of other things to get the same effect without paying. What are you really asking?

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

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Post by jarek83 »

Small feedback regarding the landing page - first few impressions I got were the same - it is a paywalled article page, it wants me to pay first to read about how 'dramatically angled photos' can look like. I almost left the page without realising it's a product page itself.

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

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Post by monai »

The generated images look too flat and too sharp, giving an aged look. No one takes screenshots programmatically anymore. Consider revitalizing the output by adding RGB pixelation and a moire pattern filter to look like it was taken from a real monitor with a phone camera.

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

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Post by webprofusion »

It looks really cool, best of luck commercializing it however it seems a little too simple for that. It produces an image almost exactly like I've takes a photo of my monitor, so I could just take a photo of my monitor rather than buying the HD option?

It's also possibly a bit too easy to replicate in an hour or so (e.g. apply image as a surface texture in threejs and screenshot/canvas-capture that, together with standard FX like bloom).

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

mikaelaast wrote: post #169
whywhywouldyou wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

If you've the security consciousness to not upload then there's no way you trust that.

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

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Someone wrote: post #80
dheera wrote: post #67

Interestingly, I REALLY want the exact OPPOSITE of this. Many times it's just so frustratingly difficult to take a screenshot of something on a computer screen and send it over one of the several mobile messaging apps that don't have a good desktop client, so I end up just taking a picture of the physical computer screen with my mobile phone. It looks like shit but I'm lazy. I really wish a piece of software could re…

On Apple devices ”Universal Clipboard” ( https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209460 ) works fairly well for that (’fairly’ because, in my experience, it doesn’t always work in one go)

'KDE connect' has a similar shared clipboard, also very low friction local network file sharing IME, works on Android with either Windows or Linux (and maybe other systems too?).

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

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Post by okaleniuk »

dheera wrote: post #67

Interestingly, I REALLY want the exact OPPOSITE of this. Many times it's just so frustratingly difficult to take a screenshot of something on a computer screen and send it over one of the several mobile messaging apps that don't have a good desktop client, so I end up just taking a picture of the physical computer screen with my mobile phone. It looks like shit but I'm lazy. I really wish a piece of software could re…

I had a similar problem a decade ago. Had a lot of paper bureaucracy in my life, didn't have a scanner on me at all times obviously. So I wrote an app that undoes the perspective: https://github.com/akalenuk/Docam

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

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Post by moremetadata »

1000100_1000101 wrote: post #117
mikaelaast wrote: post #22

Earlier 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.

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