Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
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Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#2I like the concept. A lot.
It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately.
Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#3I like the concept. A lot. It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately. Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
Hey wow thanks for the feedback, appreciate that a lot. Hacker News folk just rock!
Interesting idea RE: skitch, certainly worth some consideration - I had considered annotations at least, and will take the idea very seriously.
RE: KISSinsights, I’m a bit of an amateur really so I just used the recommended free questions to get started with. But point taken :-)
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#4I like the concept. A lot. It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately. Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
Hey wow thanks for the feedback, appreciate that a lot. Hacker News folk just rock! Interesting idea RE: skitch, certainly worth some consideration - I had considered annotations at least, and will take the idea very seriously. RE: KISSinsights, I’m a bit of an amateur really so I just used the recommended free questions to get started with. But point taken :-)
What did you write this in?
Also, your site http://www.hashbo.com is down right now.
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#5This is a cool hack! I think the next step is to think about what kind of problem this technology could solve. For example, I would use this tool if I could input a width and height to dynamically generate snapshots of websites at different screen resolutions.
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#6One minor critique... the example placeholders are of the form "example.com" but it seems to reject domains that are not fully qualified (e.g. "http://example.com)
Neat idea though.
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey wow thanks for the feedback, appreciate that a lot. Hacker News folk just rock! Interesting idea RE: skitch, certainly worth some consideration - I had considered annotations at least, and will take the idea very seriously. RE: KISSinsights, I’m a bit of an amateur really so I just used the recommended free questions to get started with. But point taken :-)
What did you write this in? Also, your site http://www.hashbo.com is down right now.
Yeah, sorry that was another past hack :-) that’s kinda moved over to it’s new experiment at http://boardcast.it
And the app was done in (the apparently uncool :-) Java - it was just a quick hack because I noticed that snapshot services were cluttered and complicated and most folk just want a simple full page image. Anyway it was written today out of some code used in http://boardcast.it.
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#8I typed in "example.org", and got back "Please enter a URL". For convenience, consider automatically assuming "http:// in the front if the user doesn't specify a URL scheme. (Please do continue allowing URLs with http:// or https:// explicitly specified, though.) You shouldn't make that assumption if you provide an API in the future (API callers should specify full valid URLs), but it would make the current web interface more friendly.
Whatever renderer you used to render the page has absolutely no antialiasing in its font rendering, resulting in pixelated rendering.
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#9One minor critique... the example placeholders are of the form "example.com" but it seems to reject domains that are not fully qualified (e.g. " http://example.com ) Neat idea though.
Thx. Really, without the http:// - darn - do you have an example, that would be awesome if you did. I just tried a few and they seem to work. But clearly there’s a bug somewhere so I’d love to squash it!
Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
#10I like the concept. A lot. It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately. Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
Interesting that you'd switch from Skitch if it had that feature set. I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever prefer to hit, from a page I'd like a screenshot of:
> cmd+l, cmd+c, cmd+t, sna, , enter, tab, cmd+v, enter, right click generated image, copy link > cmd+shift+5, click once in my browser window, click once on share link