Woah. Snaggy dev here; didn't think I'd see this on HN yet. I made Snaggy myself a year ago as a side project - it was my first experience with web development. After a year of feedback, I was in the middle of giving it a big revamp, improving the UX, handling other browsers/OS better, user accounts, deletion options, etc. I was going to post it here once I had all that fixed up! But here we are.
Please give me your feedback! I had zero experience with webdev when I made this, but now I feel much more confident.
Snaggy uses S3 and Cloudfront, and deletions are permanent, if that's a concern. Also, I use the user-agent for browser detection, which I realize now is not very reliable. I need better browser/OS support and I'd like to improve the editor.
Which browser are you using? It only needs an applet for browsers that can't support the clipboard api (unless it detected it wrong, which is possible).
Very true. That's how I knew the meme. I saw it on reddit which I also frequent. However, that doesn't mean we should introduce them here. They don't add to Hacker News discussion.
And I totally agree with you, I just actually couldn't resist. I was ready to face some downvote (and I have been served…). Apologies.
However there already are some links on HN which leads to reddit style discussion, like the recent link to the "Great HN parody". I think it may be okay from time to time as long as it doesn't flood the discussion.
Yeah, that's cool. I chuckled at your comment, and I didn't downvote (I can't. Guess I don't have enough karma). Just trying to abide by the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
I am clearly too paranoid. I was looking at my screen thinking what sort of information leakage there would be uploading a screenshot and then 'trimming' it to remove the stuff that I didn't want out there. And then thinking the upload sends the whole image, then the tools crop it and you get a 'final' version. But the original? Still there somewhere. Not that this is an original thought mind you, XKCD famously parodied the problem of creating a web site requiring email and an password and noting that lots of people use the same password everywhere so you could harvest passwords that way.
On a Mac, you can get a cropped screenshot on your clipboard using Command+Shift+Control+4. Then just drag the crosshairs to choose an area to capture, or press Space and then click a window to capture.
You can save a screenshot to the Desktop, and optionally edit it before uploading, by not holding down Control, with both the 3 and 4 shortcuts.
This used to only be supported by uploadscreenshot.com, then more and more sites started to support it and now that imgur.com supports it I've never needed anywhere else.
Neat idea! But I get this message when trying to paste:
"It looks like you are using Firefox 17.0. Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to operate unless you are running Firefox version 4 or higher. Consider updating Firefox."
Is there a freeware or commercial WYSIWYG editor that supports pasting of images like this awesome tool?
I have a use-case where users are creating charts in Excel and want to paste them into a HTML textarea and WYSIWYG editor that supported paste of images from the clipboard would be awesome. Thanks
Better than Droplr and the rest with the annotation features, but just needs some minor UX work - cropping is confusing for instance. And just needs to be a tad faster :)
Other than that, all of my designer friends will love it!
I greatly prefer Droplr's workflow -- just press Alt+Shift+4 and a screenshot is uploaded and the link is placed in your clipboard. If someone made that without Droplr's issues, I'd switch in an instant.
This is fantastic - just wish I could also resize the image to a specific size. All the time I get images that need to be cropped to 32x32 or something similar. Build that in and I will be using it everyday :)
This is good. I wish it had an easier way to get to the direct image link (Right now I have to click the link then right-click the image and then copy image URL).
Please give me your feedback! I had zero experience with webdev when I made this, but now I feel much more confident. Snaggy uses S3 and Cloudfront, and deletions are permanent, if that's a concern. Also, I use the user-agent for browser detection, which I realize now is not very reliable. I need better browser/OS support and I'd like to improve the editor.