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by sidebread • 1 year ago

23 18 1 year ago

Asking people to install something with no information about how it works or who built it is... certainly a move.

After reading the landing page, I'm still unsure what the exact use case is for this? Could just be misunderstanding the design-test-prototype workflow, but a straightforward example would be nice.

Edit: upon reading through it again I'm realizing it's a pretty screenshot maker. Which is neat. Unsure if it calls for a dedicated .exe though.

sidebread5• 1 year ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually a bit new to product development. What would be a recommended alternative to an executable in this case? After reading some of the other comments I'm aware of the perceived security risk.

asynchronousx2• 1 year ago

To a web app guy, everything looks like a nail sort of thing but I think this would be a neat web app. I can go to https://photopea.com and get an entire photoshop clone in my browser, but it would be nice to just use your tool for screenshots when I need.

raviisoccupied• 1 year ago

Former Product Marketing Manager here. When I saw the word 'designs' on your landing page, I assumed the application would convert my screenshot into a Figma file/equivalent. Instead it looks like your app creates social ready images of screenshotted UI. I wonder if there's a better word to use than 'designs' that better captures what looks like the intended use case.

sidebread5• 1 year ago

Thanks for your feedback, yea I got to admit there's a bit of sales language there. Hopefully I'll incorporate some more features in the future. At the moment I need to sort out something I missed - perception of a one file .exe file.

johng• 1 year ago

Same here.

youniverse• 1 year ago

Probably mockup is a better word?

codingdave• 1 year ago

There is no way I would ever download an .exe for something like this. If all it does is take an image, add some background and borders, and give you some sliders to adjust things... that can be a web page, where I am not putting my system's security at risk.

amelius• 1 year ago

You're right of course, but it's kind of crazy that downloading an exe is putting our security at risk, in this day and age. It feels like our OSes are stuck in the middle ages.

sidebread5• 1 year ago

Fair point. Do you have any recommendations on how to do this alternatively, for Windows? I defaulted to .exe but obviously didn't think about the user perception of it.

Natfan• 1 year ago

Like the user above says, a web service using CSS/JS for the image manipulation (you can get quite good perf with CSS these days)

xandrius• 1 year ago

Wait, so I take a screenshot of something and this gives it an edge, drop shadow and a background with some pattern?

I can do that probably quicker on, say, Affinity or Figma and definitely better.

The real question though is: does it use AI?

Retr0id• 1 year ago

What UI framework(s) does it use?

sidebread5• 1 year ago

I actually built it on CustomTkinter in Python, as that was a language I already know.

wayoverthecloud• 1 year ago

Impressive for CustomTkinter. Well done with the UI design.

soared• 1 year ago

The name is probably too similar to Clippy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Assistant

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