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I really wish that screenshoting was easier. Not hitting print screen but like… when I take screenshots, I want to automatically make a little journal entry, ea

by rtpg 3y ago

I really wish that screenshoting was easier. Not hitting print screen but like… when I take screenshots, I want to automatically make a little journal entry, easily annotate with arrows that “look good”, and have subsequent screenshots also get bundled in. Bonus points for a pdf export that applies nice defaults to look good. Same as how a Word 201x document default just looks way better than Google docs. “Help me bundle a bunch of pictures in a low friction way that looks nice” is still an untapped market IMO. Google is theoretically some UI skins and nicer defaults away from doing this through Google Docs. A shock to me that Evernote could never figure out how to get Skitch working as a part of this

artur_makly 3y ago
We do this.. and then some -:) https://VisualSitemaps.com https://VisualSitemaps.com
- bambax 3y ago
  Can you crawl websites on a private network not accessible from the outside (by downloading a tool that would run inside the network for example)? Your front page says "any url public or private" but it doesn't really answer that specific question. I think a tool that would work inside corporate networks, and maybe be runnable on a simple notebook without requiring admin privileges on Windows, would have a significant market.
  - artur_makly 3y ago
    today we crawl private sites that only use cookies as their auth method: https://support.visualsitemaps.com/en/articles/3673081-how-to-crawl-a-password-protected-private-website https://support.visualsitemaps.com/en/articles/3673081-how-t... You are absolutely right about a local crawl offering. In fact it would cut down a lot of our server costs too -;) Will be looking into this at our next standup since it will require some refactoring. There is however a massive trade-off in that crawling and screenshooting large >5000 pages on one cpu will take a really long time to do well because there is a complex screenshot stitching process, and that process will need an ALWAYS ON CPU. What we are offering as of this month is enterprise custom cloud installs & licensing. That way 5k site will get done in 1-2 hours ( or faster ) instead of days!
sixhobbits 3y ago
There are some tools like CleanshotX that do this and make decent $$ AFAIK. No affiliation, just a happy customer.

by rtpg 3y ago

artur_makly 3y ago

We do this.. and then some -:) https://VisualSitemaps.com https://VisualSitemaps.com

bambax 3y ago
Can you crawl websites on a private network not accessible from the outside (by downloading a tool that would run inside the network for example)? Your front page says "any url public or private" but it doesn't really answer that specific question. I think a tool that would work inside corporate networks, and maybe be runnable on a simple notebook without requiring admin privileges on Windows, would have a significant market.
- artur_makly 3y ago
  today we crawl private sites that only use cookies as their auth method: https://support.visualsitemaps.com/en/articles/3673081-how-to-crawl-a-password-protected-private-website https://support.visualsitemaps.com/en/articles/3673081-how-t... You are absolutely right about a local crawl offering. In fact it would cut down a lot of our server costs too -;) Will be looking into this at our next standup since it will require some refactoring. There is however a massive trade-off in that crawling and screenshooting large >5000 pages on one cpu will take a really long time to do well because there is a complex screenshot stitching process, and that process will need an ALWAYS ON CPU. What we are offering as of this month is enterprise custom cloud installs & licensing. That way 5k site will get done in 1-2 hours ( or faster ) instead of days!

sixhobbits 3y ago

There are some tools like CleanshotX that do this and make decent $$ AFAIK. No affiliation, just a happy customer.