I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.
Another nice feature about it is that you can set time limits or number of downloads. So you can upload something and not feel like it will be on the internet "forever".
Hey Jowsie! Yes, currently the files are hosted on just on a public s3 bucket, so definitely not the most secure, but maybe something to add in the future.
I haven't heard of ShareX so will check that out and definitely look into a self-hosted option.
The extension seems great. But I don't see how would you monetize it from the home page. And if this get popular, how will you pay for the hosting and storage?
I'm flexible on monetization patterns for now, but if this were to take off, I'd imagine it'd be some sort of team-based pricing for teams heavily using it and introducing a collaboration-first experience.
I'd love this to be native... something like $(0).screenshot() would produce a base64 string of the rendered element. Why doesn't this exist? Why do we need to rely on browser extensions? The closest JS-based equivalent I've found is html2canvas, which doesn't work as well as advertised.
It's a security landmine. IFRAMES, mixed content, downloading / rendering behaviors are all sensitive and may contain private information known only to the browser/user and not the containing webpage.
You can screenshot DOM structures natively by including them in an SVG <foreignObject>, composing an SVG blob URL, rendering it in an <img> tag, and then drawing that to a <canvas>.
I started a project related to this years ago but never finished it. Now that same-origin canvas taint issues have been fixed in most browsers, maybe it's time for me to work on this again.
A related API that is not accessible to web content is Safari's console.screenshot() utility[1].
I made this extension out of a frustration from working with my friend, sending screenshots without linking to the article (or design) where it came from. Screenshot HQ solved this by pulling the URL when the screenshot was taken.
In order to mimic our workflow as much as possible, it uses the open graph social html tags to load the screenshot directly on the page in Slack.
We're thinking about adding comment capabilities), among other features (i.e. automatically rendering a mobile, tablet, and desktop screenshot, immediately making the background transparent etc.) and would love any thoughts.
For the specific use of sharing on Slack, one simple way on a Mac is Command-Control-Shift-4, which saves the screenshot image to the clipboard. You can then paste that into Slack.
really... another screenshot app??? and not an app, an extension to chrome?
which (according to the 2 gifs on their website) ONLY takes screenshot from chrome. so i can't take a screen shot of something from another application in another window. i see nothing new that this thing brings to the table?
why would i use this this over something like lightshot (https://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html), which is native, has everything that thing has and more like annotations?
Dropbox can integrate with the system screen taker for MacOS. Very useful. Automagically get a link in the clipboard every time you screen. I’ve seen this done so many ways
I've built something like this on macOS using a simple web server. As soon as a screenshot hits the desktop (and either Ctrl or Shift is held) the file is uploaded to the server and the public URL is copied to the clipboard.
It's basically just a folder watcher and a shell script.
It is really easy to capture private data in screenshots without even noticing. I have made a Chrome extension to blur or scramble website content, so it is safe to capture screenshots in support or editorial scenarios. https://datamask.tech
I feel like the one thing it's missing is "upload this screenshot and give me a shareable URL"... I always end up going to imgur and pasting the copied screenshot in there to get a URL.