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Pagesnap takes automatic screenshots of your sites

32 points by zrail 13y ago

zrail 13y ago
I launched a beta of Pagesnap on HN a few months ago. Here's the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329
itengelhardt 13y ago
Interesting piece of software; Really small app. definitely a good way to get your feet wet in the product business. Congratulations on shipping!
davidpodolsky 13y ago
I like the concept, but you really need a "Try it First" option that lives outside the paywall. I am very hesitant to type in my credit card before I have any idea if the service works how I expect. 2 cents.
- zrail 13y ago
  Great suggestion. A one-off form where you can plug in a URL and email address would be pretty easy to add.
- mercnet 13y ago
  Same, I always want to see a demo or example before signing up.
- zrail 13y ago
  I added a few screenshots and examples to the homepage if you want to take another look.
- Theodores 13y ago
  A '30 day trial' could be most useful for getting customers signed up. It could also be useful for developers that have launched a new site and need to make sure it all looks good during the initial phase - they could 'abuse' the service, however, in so doing, they would spread by word of mouth the value of your product. Imaginably the service would be signed up to thereafter as it would be ingrained in as valued and required. I also think there is utility in being able to send the screenshot to many people. For instance, an ecommerce website with sales scheduled for the weekend where the prices are supposed to change automatically. Here it would be useful for the person who puts the prices in, their micro-manager and their micro-manager's micro-manager to be cc'd in on the screenshots. In this day and age the desktop view is not the be-all and end-all, for a premium the mobile view could be recorded too.
_wesley_ 13y ago
I've been in the beta trial of this, and it works pretty well. A few thoughts: 1) It would be really great if I could schedule when the pagesnaps were taken 2) It'd be nice to be able to take snaps of only one div 3) Would be very cool if there was a URL that always had the most recent snap
pdq 13y ago
Here's a competitor: http://url2png.com http://url2png.com
- eli 13y ago
  I thought https://browsershots.org/ https://browsershots.org/ was the big one. I suspect there are many.
- lesterbuck 13y ago
  url2png is nice enough to point people looking for a free plan to a list of competitors, with some copy explaining their advantages. A very nice touch: http://url2png.com/alternatives/ http://url2png.com/alternatives/
mnx 13y ago
It seems terribly expensive, if I understand the pricing right.
13throwaway 13y ago
CLI version. https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png
dang 13y ago
This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329. Please don't post stories that have already had a significant discussion on HN recently.

32 points by zrail 13y ago

zrail 13y ago

I launched a beta of Pagesnap on HN a few months ago. Here's the previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329

itengelhardt 13y ago

Interesting piece of software; Really small app. definitely a good way to get your feet wet in the product business. Congratulations on shipping!

davidpodolsky 13y ago

I like the concept, but you really need a "Try it First" option that lives outside the paywall. I am very hesitant to type in my credit card before I have any idea if the service works how I expect. 2 cents.

zrail 13y ago
Great suggestion. A one-off form where you can plug in a URL and email address would be pretty easy to add.
mercnet 13y ago
Same, I always want to see a demo or example before signing up.
zrail 13y ago
I added a few screenshots and examples to the homepage if you want to take another look.
Theodores 13y ago
A '30 day trial' could be most useful for getting customers signed up. It could also be useful for developers that have launched a new site and need to make sure it all looks good during the initial phase - they could 'abuse' the service, however, in so doing, they would spread by word of mouth the value of your product. Imaginably the service would be signed up to thereafter as it would be ingrained in as valued and required. I also think there is utility in being able to send the screenshot to many people. For instance, an ecommerce website with sales scheduled for the weekend where the prices are supposed to change automatically. Here it would be useful for the person who puts the prices in, their micro-manager and their micro-manager's micro-manager to be cc'd in on the screenshots. In this day and age the desktop view is not the be-all and end-all, for a premium the mobile view could be recorded too.

_wesley_ 13y ago

I've been in the beta trial of this, and it works pretty well. A few thoughts: 1) It would be really great if I could schedule when the pagesnaps were taken 2) It'd be nice to be able to take snaps of only one div 3) Would be very cool if there was a URL that always had the most recent snap

pdq 13y ago

Here's a competitor: http://url2png.com http://url2png.com

eli 13y ago
I thought https://browsershots.org/ https://browsershots.org/ was the big one. I suspect there are many.
lesterbuck 13y ago
url2png is nice enough to point people looking for a free plan to a list of competitors, with some copy explaining their advantages. A very nice touch: http://url2png.com/alternatives/ http://url2png.com/alternatives/

mnx 13y ago

It seems terribly expensive, if I understand the pricing right.

13throwaway 13y ago

CLI version. https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png https://github.com/paulhammond/webkit2png

dang 13y ago

This is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7305329. Please don't post stories that have already had a significant discussion on HN recently.