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Show HN: My embarrassingly simple printscreen weekend webapp
- nodata 13y agoDoesn't WFM :( (Firefox + Linux)
- newsmaster 13y agoOops, I tested on Win+Mac. Guess I'll be downloading linux then.
- luis8 13y agoi think linux doesnt save the image in the clipboard after you pushed the button, in ubuntu however a dialog is displayed after pushing the button that allow you to copy the screenshot to the clipboard, but this tool is specially designed for this purpose. AFAIK this wont work out of the box in linux :(
- anan0s 13y agoWell I guess that's expected behavior. So you may need to explicitly state that the feature works if you save an image on your clipboard -- not just pressing printscreen ;-) nice work for a weekend app!
- pbhjpbhj 13y agoYou could run up a machine on susestudio and use that via the online VNC[-like ?] interface.
- hfsktr 13y agoI like that you can edit after you've saved it. Doesn't matter if it's simple if it's intuitive and works.
- beobab 13y agoI'm assuming you don't keep people's screenshots to sell to the highest bidder. ;)
- brent_noorda 13y agoI love it. Fantastic for multiple reasons. 1) I can never remember the "intuitive" keyboard combinations to do this on my mac, but I can remember "easyprintscreen" 2) Useful. I can capture my screen, draw on it, highlight issues or bugs or whatnot, and share it. 3) I know you'll keep it running because it has an obvious, lucrative business model (assuming you monitor what screens people capture for the occasional useful password, credit card numbers, stock tips, blackmailing opportunity, etc...)
- newsmaster 13y agoHaha, there's no monitoring setup, infact there's no backend at all :)
- sillysaurus2 13y agoIf there's no backend, where are the images saved to? Just curious.
- tokenizerrr 13y agoFrom looking at the source, imgur.
- sillysaurus2 13y agoSweet! Feature request: Would you expose the imgur link directly? I often want to take a screenshot and send it to someone, but I almost never need to draw on it. So getting a direct link to imgur would be perfect. Also, would you consider removing the 5-second "Redirecting..." countdown? EDIT: Right clicking on the image and clicking "Copy image URL" gives the imgur link. EDIT2: When you click save, could you automatically copy the imgur link to the clipboard? That way you can save, alt-tab, and immediately paste the imgur link into email/IM/whatever. Great work! Thanks for this.
- newsmaster 13y ago
- ksk 13y agoNice, Can you add a progress bar for larger uploads?
- newsmaster 13y agoI was halfway creating a progress bar when I thought the design sucked so I kept it simple, but yes coming weekend a progress bar will be made.
- guardian5x 13y agoI guess i am not the only one who checked my whole screen before trying out the web app :)
- patatino 13y agoI guess i am not the only one who checked my whole screen after trying out the web app :/
- adrow 13y agoI think you could be clearer that 'Save' uploads the screenshot to your site, and does not (as I assumed) open a Save-as prompt.
- coherentpony 13y agoDidn't work for me. Mac + Chrome.
- coherentpony 13y agoIgnore me. PEBKAC.
- toddmatthews 13y agoThis is a great little MVP, nice work. very useful
- japaget 13y agoIt supports multiple monitors. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit + Firefox 25.0.
- yoklov 13y agoOn mac, Cmd+Ctrl+Shift+4 will work with this for regions. If you hit space before selecting anything, you can select by window. This is nice, as I rarely want to capture my whole screen.
- leemac 13y agoVery cool. It frustrates me to no end when users send a docx file containing screenshots. As a precaution, I minimized everything. :)
- johnnyg 13y agoI believe this tool has legs and is a bigger deal than you think.
- iambateman 13y agoSkitch is bulky. Dropbox/Cloud.app are great, but too simple. There's definitely middle ground for quick annotation, without going crazzzyyyy. If you can screenshot, annotate, and upload in 5-8 seconds, you've got my $$.
- newsmaster 13y agoThanks! I'll add more tools this weekend and polish it up a bit. How much would one be willing to pay for something like?
- pneumatics 13y agoI installed a full application to do this the last time I needed annotated screenshots that didn't look like they were made by a child. I used Jing fwiw.
- mden 13y agoI like it. I only wish there was the option to crop an image. Especially useful for people with multiple monitors.
- HPLovecraft 13y agoAlso the ability to crop off or to blur out/cover up anything that the user does not want shown
- cstuder 13y agoYeah, I've apparently accidentally just uploaded a screenshot of some closed source code to imgur...
- HPLovecraft 13y agonewsmaster posted: "The imgur id is in the URL after you press save :)" so you could go delete it off there?
- namanyayg 13y agoHave you seen on paste.com?
- HPLovecraft 13y agoI don't think that it is clear to a user what to do here? What does "this keyboard shortcut" mean? What should a user do once they get the image in there? The paintbrushes should be labeled better? Then what?
- nashashmi 13y agoThis has a lot of bones but no flesh. All I can do is a mark up a picture with really think ink. The only thing this seems to be is a picture paster with save to server function that can be linked to using a short url.
- nashashmi 13y agoAlso, ink55 has other nifty small tools.
- thejerz 13y agoDoesn't work for me on Safari version 6.0.5 (8536.30.1) on OS X 10.8.4
- newsmaster 13y agoI ran into a security error 18 with Safari after pasting the image from clipboard and running the data through Canvas .getDataURL(). Perhaps Safari devs could make an exception for clipboard images?
- cgtyoder 13y agoSame for Safari v 6.1.
- squiggy22 13y agoFantastic. Can see applications in technical support. You could easily enough combine with support details functionality.
- slig 13y agoLoved it. Combine with browser version/OS/etc and let the user send the info directly to the person who requested it. There's a company doing something like that here on HN, but I couldn't find it.
- riffraff 13y agoI wonder, on my macbook I always did cmd+shift+3 or cmd+shift+4 without hitting ctrl. I am not sure if there is a difference, if not maybe you can simplify the message :)
- joebo 13y agoGreat work! It might be helpful to show images of common keyboards to show where the print screen button is. For example, on my keyboard it's labeled PrtScn. I've had to explain hundreds of times where the print screen key is. https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+images&oq=keyboard+images&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2562j0j7&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8 https://www.google.com/search?q=keyboard+images&oq=keyboard+... To make it even more dead simple, you may even want to show a video. I'm not kidding.
- CatsoCatsoCatso 13y agoI really suggest you give some warning that this saves to a public site, I hit save and had my email in the background, thankfully there was no private information on screen. This gave me quite a panic, please fix it or else someone else will make a bigger mistake.
- newsmaster 13y agoMy apologies, I've added it to the save button now.
- CatsoCatsoCatso 13y agoThanks. I forgot to mention in my panicky state that I really liked the app, nice work.
- osetinsky 13y agoYou only need Shift + Command + 3 (no need for Control) to screenshot. Makes it much easier!
- biturd 13y agoYeah, you could actually mess up a workflow. The current instructions would over-write your clipboard, maybe you had something you needed in it really bad. I use a clipboard manager which is nice, and past copies are saved for a defined few hours or additional entries.
- waylandsmithers 13y agoNothing to be embarrassed about. This is excellent. I can already see this being useful for our less technical users who need help reporting issues.
- joshdance 13y agoHow do you delete something saved to Imgur? Need to have that option available.
- rotub 13y agoI'm a bit confused. I can only manage to screen shot the website itself. How do I, say, screenshot my desktop?