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Shots: Create Mockups

126 points by stefankuehnel 3y ago

hemloc_io 3y ago
Saw that you guys support Arc browser, but every time you open the sidebar it saves the screenshot !
- keerthiko 3y ago
  this might be dependent on your arc settings, where you can choose from [execute arc shortcut]/[execute site shortcut]/[both]?
wild_egg 3y ago
Full screen overlay on mobile is pretty hostile I'm not even allowed to read about whatever this service might be without going home and getting out my laptop?
- david422 3y ago
  It's all about browser screen size apparently. Anything less than 1080px width and you will still get the same "Shots mobile is coming" message.
  - fourteenfour 3y ago
    Thanks for the tip, I don't usually maximize my browser windows and got the confusing mobile message using Firefox.
- iinnPP 3y ago
  This made it an instant no from me. Doesn't even allow desktop mode.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- petepete 3y ago
  Yeah, even if it's great my interest has waned.
jitl 3y ago
(I work at Notion) I usually feel a bit apprehensive when I see a new app pop up using the .so TLD (Somalia, operated by SONIC.so), since we’ve faced a lot of issues with it over the years. I end up repeating the same kind of comment about it (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825966), but I wonder if all the apps on it, including Notion, have changed the reputation of it with corporate firewalls by now. Still, watch out if you host user-generated content there, it can be hard to undo reputation damage to .so domains if you get reported to various watchdogs. Notion’s longest hard-down outage happened after a takedown notice got sent to one of our upstream providers but they never forwarded it to us, and it took ling hours on the phone to various NICs and ISPs to get unblocked.
- stickfigure 3y ago
  Also - the organizations that run the DNS servers of little top level domains are not necessarily competent. Back when I had a company on the .st domain, we had an 8-hour outage when something in the TLD infrastructure broke and their support team was asleep: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-letter-TLDs-for-your-domain-name https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
  - jitl 3y ago
    Yeah, this reminds me of our outage. When we finally got through to SoNIC at 2am their time, and they scrambled to find someone who could speak English, and we scrambled to find someone who could speak French. I think with high school level on either side plus Google Translate, eventually we worked out the issue was with an intermediary in Germany.
- dinkleberg 3y ago
  Not the OP, but thanks for the heads up! Just recently started a new project with a .so domain, but looks like I'll have to pick up another one. No point introducing more work for ourselves just for a domain name.
  - 3y ago
orenlindsey 3y ago
"Safari is not supported yet" Is Safari really that hard to develop for? Name one feature this site needs that won't run in safari. WebKit has been getting a lot better recently, I feel like not supporting Safari at this point is because of one of three things: you're too lazy to try it, don't have a Mac, or you are stuck to the opinion that Safari is somehow behind Chrome or Firefox in major ways. I use safari daily and *never* have a problem with a site not working. Ever. So I doubt there's some new web api that this site needs that doesn't work on Safari.
- ororroro 3y ago
  That is odd because all the mockup devices are Apple.
  - dylan604 3y ago
    stock images are fun!!!
- seaal 3y ago
  After switching user agents to Chrome and trying it out, I ran into a problem pretty quick. The dynamically generated "Magic" backgrounds use SVGs with the 'filter: blur' style which isn't working properly despite it being supported by Safari [1] Most of the features work fine though. Website does state that it's in beta as well. What do you have against using another browser? [1] https://caniuse.com/svg-filters https://caniuse.com/svg-filters
  - Nevermark 3y ago
    > What do you have against using another browser? Someone doesn’t have to have anything against other browsers to prefer using their favorite browser without futzing around with browser-site combinations. Also, web developers here are interested in any reports of cross platform problems, so they can avoid requiring their users to futz around.
    - jwells89 3y ago
dinkleberg 3y ago
This is a beautiful app, well done!
shadeslayer_ 3y ago
The site loads like I'm on a dial-up connection but I'm actually on a 300Mbps fiber line. Pass.
CyberDildonics 3y ago
What is the point of this? It seems like it's just putting a border around an image.
- echelon 3y ago
  It's a great and easy way to feature product "photos" on your marketing website. Also, it's kind of fun to play with [1]. [1] https://imgur.com/jhAOnsL https://imgur.com/jhAOnsL
- hulium 3y ago
  The whole thing is quite confusing at first for such a simple tool. The splash screen says "Create amazing mockups" and "Craft beautiful presentations", somehow that translates to "Frames and backgrounds for marketing images".
stevenicr 3y ago
Surfing with browser set at less than 1702 pixels wide, I get a screen that says coming to mobile in the future.. get one of these other browsers.. but I'm already using firefox... so clicked to go full screen, 1920 px wide and things start happening..
stevenicr 3y ago
I almost clicked away not realizing there were actual mockups for phones / tablets / etc.. after uploading an image, seeing the results.. and scannign around the screen I thought oh this is super basic, gotta go.. and right before I clicked close tab, I noticed the almost invisible down arrow next to 'screenshot'.. and so I clicked and then, well now it's good. So strongly suggest adding phone / tablet / computer / laptop /etc icons / graphics / words maybe.. I would even make the default very first screen when you upload your very first image.. also create one of each phone / laptop etc.. and display the results perhaps with a click for more of similar...
geuis 3y ago
Landscape mode exists on mobile. I intensely dislike sites that ignore this.
tomgs 3y ago
Please disregard all the naysayers in the comments. I'm a technical product marketer, this is delightful and saves me so much time. Wrong audience for the tool, since they focus on things like accessibility and browser support and what you promise to bring to the table in comparison to what you actually bring. None of these matter - this is a TERRIFIC piece of tooling and I will use it starting literally next week for my work.
humbleferret 3y ago
Simple and effective. I think people forget how much time it takes to make screenshots look 'great' when using them in any kind of marketing material.

126 points by stefankuehnel 3y ago

hemloc_io 3y ago

Saw that you guys support Arc browser, but every time you open the sidebar it saves the screenshot !

keerthiko 3y ago
this might be dependent on your arc settings, where you can choose from [execute arc shortcut]/[execute site shortcut]/[both]?

wild_egg 3y ago

Full screen overlay on mobile is pretty hostile I'm not even allowed to read about whatever this service might be without going home and getting out my laptop?

david422 3y ago
It's all about browser screen size apparently. Anything less than 1080px width and you will still get the same "Shots mobile is coming" message.
- fourteenfour 3y ago
  Thanks for the tip, I don't usually maximize my browser windows and got the confusing mobile message using Firefox.
iinnPP 3y ago
This made it an instant no from me. Doesn't even allow desktop mode.
- deleted 3y ago
  [deleted]
petepete 3y ago
Yeah, even if it's great my interest has waned.

jitl 3y ago

(I work at Notion) I usually feel a bit apprehensive when I see a new app pop up using the .so TLD (Somalia, operated by SONIC.so), since we’ve faced a lot of issues with it over the years. I end up repeating the same kind of comment about it (eg https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825966 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36825966), but I wonder if all the apps on it, including Notion, have changed the reputation of it with corporate firewalls by now. Still, watch out if you host user-generated content there, it can be hard to undo reputation damage to .so domains if you get reported to various watchdogs. Notion’s longest hard-down outage happened after a takedown notice got sent to one of our upstream providers but they never forwarded it to us, and it took ling hours on the phone to various NICs and ISPs to get unblocked.

stickfigure 3y ago
Also - the organizations that run the DNS servers of little top level domains are not necessarily competent. Back when I had a company on the .st domain, we had an 8-hour outage when something in the TLD infrastructure broke and their support team was asleep: https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-letter-TLDs-for-your-domain-name https://github.com/stickfigure/blog/wiki/Beware-cutesy-two-l...
- jitl 3y ago
  Yeah, this reminds me of our outage. When we finally got through to SoNIC at 2am their time, and they scrambled to find someone who could speak English, and we scrambled to find someone who could speak French. I think with high school level on either side plus Google Translate, eventually we worked out the issue was with an intermediary in Germany.
dinkleberg 3y ago
Not the OP, but thanks for the heads up! Just recently started a new project with a .so domain, but looks like I'll have to pick up another one. No point introducing more work for ourselves just for a domain name.
- 3y ago

orenlindsey 3y ago

"Safari is not supported yet" Is Safari really that hard to develop for? Name one feature this site needs that won't run in safari. WebKit has been getting a lot better recently, I feel like not supporting Safari at this point is because of one of three things: you're too lazy to try it, don't have a Mac, or you are stuck to the opinion that Safari is somehow behind Chrome or Firefox in major ways. I use safari daily and *never* have a problem with a site not working. Ever. So I doubt there's some new web api that this site needs that doesn't work on Safari.

ororroro 3y ago
That is odd because all the mockup devices are Apple.
- dylan604 3y ago
  stock images are fun!!!
seaal 3y ago
After switching user agents to Chrome and trying it out, I ran into a problem pretty quick. The dynamically generated "Magic" backgrounds use SVGs with the 'filter: blur' style which isn't working properly despite it being supported by Safari [1] Most of the features work fine though. Website does state that it's in beta as well. What do you have against using another browser? [1] https://caniuse.com/svg-filters https://caniuse.com/svg-filters
- Nevermark 3y ago
  > What do you have against using another browser? Someone doesn’t have to have anything against other browsers to prefer using their favorite browser without futzing around with browser-site combinations. Also, web developers here are interested in any reports of cross platform problems, so they can avoid requiring their users to futz around.
  - jwells89 3y ago

dinkleberg 3y ago

This is a beautiful app, well done!

shadeslayer_ 3y ago

The site loads like I'm on a dial-up connection but I'm actually on a 300Mbps fiber line. Pass.

CyberDildonics 3y ago

What is the point of this? It seems like it's just putting a border around an image.

echelon 3y ago
It's a great and easy way to feature product "photos" on your marketing website. Also, it's kind of fun to play with [1]. [1] https://imgur.com/jhAOnsL https://imgur.com/jhAOnsL
hulium 3y ago
The whole thing is quite confusing at first for such a simple tool. The splash screen says "Create amazing mockups" and "Craft beautiful presentations", somehow that translates to "Frames and backgrounds for marketing images".

stevenicr 3y ago

Surfing with browser set at less than 1702 pixels wide, I get a screen that says coming to mobile in the future.. get one of these other browsers.. but I'm already using firefox... so clicked to go full screen, 1920 px wide and things start happening..

stevenicr 3y ago

I almost clicked away not realizing there were actual mockups for phones / tablets / etc.. after uploading an image, seeing the results.. and scannign around the screen I thought oh this is super basic, gotta go.. and right before I clicked close tab, I noticed the almost invisible down arrow next to 'screenshot'.. and so I clicked and then, well now it's good. So strongly suggest adding phone / tablet / computer / laptop /etc icons / graphics / words maybe.. I would even make the default very first screen when you upload your very first image.. also create one of each phone / laptop etc.. and display the results perhaps with a click for more of similar...

geuis 3y ago

Landscape mode exists on mobile. I intensely dislike sites that ignore this.

tomgs 3y ago

Please disregard all the naysayers in the comments. I'm a technical product marketer, this is delightful and saves me so much time. Wrong audience for the tool, since they focus on things like accessibility and browser support and what you promise to bring to the table in comparison to what you actually bring. None of these matter - this is a TERRIFIC piece of tooling and I will use it starting literally next week for my work.

humbleferret 3y ago

Simple and effective. I think people forget how much time it takes to make screenshots look 'great' when using them in any kind of marketing material.