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Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by 1000100_1000101 on Thursday February 09, 2023 @08:50PM (#34734615)
Yeah, I don't want to upload my data to a random website I've never heard of, just to see what the heck it does. You NEED a few examples, otherwise users will just close tab.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mcny on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:00PM (#34734708)
I uploaded a screenshot of the front page of hacker news

https://i.imgur.com/aTqN3qA.png

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by aryamaan on Thursday February 09, 2023 @09:09PM (#34734787)
Maybe it's imgur but this looks so bad. A tweet with examples would be better choice if you can't update on the website quickly
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by alphabetting on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:24PM (#34735593)
having blur set to extreme probably doesn't help but I haven't messed around with it
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by bitec0de on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:35AM (#34736797)
It looks like a naive user took a phone photo of their screen instead of a proper screenshot.
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Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mynameisvlad on Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:18PM (#34735558)
What even is this criticism?

An ad hominem attack based on a single word and your extreme displeasure of it?

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by Maursault on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:54AM (#34736500)
> What even is

You've outdone GGP in the contest of inserting a superfluous word. The criticism here is the same as above, which is of intentionally bad grammar, in fact. You both know and yet you choose to employ poor grammar as a writing style, and I think it's likely due to vanity. Speech would be different, but neither of you are speaking. You're writing in an editable field and expressing beyond the content of the meaning of your words to compulsively insert a caricature of yourselves which obviously could not be accurate. It's wanting to appear a certain way and ironically having the opposite effect. If I was doing it, I would want to uuuhhhhh know. I just did it there to further drive the point home that I don't need space words to think because I can take all the time I want, because I am typing in an editable field. I think it's also likely that though you understand completely, you're going to feign as though you don't as convincingly as you can, because there's a problem of which you and GGP are unaware and my drawing attention to it is uncomfortable, aggravating the anxiety and self-consciousness. The trick is to stop trying to be or appear as something, and just be something, whatever it is you are, rather than pretending. So, yeah, do you, like, get it, or whatever?

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mynameisvlad on Friday February 10, 2023 @02:09AM (#34736611)
Do you think I give a shit about what you think of my superfluous words? Huh?

Do you have anything substantive to say about the comments themselves as opposed to a hyperfixated diatribe based on a single superfluous word? Because everyone and their grandmothers is bored of your “holier than thou” soapbox ramblings about how you perceive random people on the internet.

And just because you clearly don’t get it, the word “even” can be used for emphasis when something you are reacting to is absurd. Crazy thing, English, eh?

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by Maursault on Friday February 10, 2023 @09:25AM (#34739967)
If you don't care that your ass is hanging out, that's up to you, but you need not choose to be offended at being informed when it is not obvious whether you're aware. No one could fault another for being earnest, even if dissenting. But no one tolerates phoneys, and that neither phoneys do either speaks volumes.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mynameisvlad on Friday February 10, 2023 @11:07AM (#34741539)
Nobody’s ass is hanging out except the whiny pedant who has nothing better to do than to go on ad hominem-filled diatribes based on nothing that is grounded in reality. And who’s comments are clearly absurd enough to get downvoted and flagged. Because they in no way shape or form are about the topic at hand.

I wonder who that person is in this conversation.

Once again, and for the last time, do you have anything to say about the comments themselves, or are you just going to keep breaking the guidelines to get your rocks off on insulting others and their grammar over a single word?

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by Maursault on Friday February 10, 2023 @04:33PM (#34746191)
My argument was not ad hominem, as I was criticizing grammar, using sarcasm, but still not ad hominem since I neither attacked you nor OP personally, merely the bad grammar. Ironic, however, that your argument not only generously employs ad hominem but also bandwagon fallacies.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mynameisvlad on Friday February 10, 2023 @08:25PM (#34748534)
I mean, it was. You inferred qualities that don't exist in real life and hyperfixated on those instead of what was written, but go on sis.
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by Maursault on Saturday February 11, 2023 @12:43PM (#34754434)
> I mean,

Here we go again. Do you not understand the difference between speaking and writing? When composing an editable comment, you need not include the words you use when speaking to give yourself more time to think about what to say. You can take all the time you want to think and then make your thoughts clear before hitting reply, and you can also edit the comment. I can't fathom why you would waste a reader's time by indicating you had to think for a second before completing your thoughts. Let's see, well, um, could it be a problem with ego? Definitely.

> You inferred qualities that don't exist in real life and hyperfixated on those instead of what was written

I have no earthly idea what you are talking about. I inferred qualities that don't exist?? What are you referring to, exactly? Because I think instead you've just graduated your unsound reasoning to straw man.

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by dang on Saturday February 11, 2023 @01:18AM (#34750051)
Could you please not cross into personal attack or post flamewar comments to HN? Those things aren't allowed here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by mikaelaast on Friday February 10, 2023 @01:50AM (#34736471)
OP here. I understand this instinct. In this case it doesn't actually get transferred, but stays on the client, as stated in the footer: "Image processing is done in the browser. No image data is stored or transmitted."
Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by TechBro8615 on Friday February 10, 2023 @05:30PM (#34746888)
You should make that much clearer, maybe even by running it in a codesandbox, and submitting that link to HN. I think it might be received better than when marketed as a service (and also, if the process is client-side, why is there a subscription offering?)

Think about Figma. They don't charge for how many drawings you make - that would seem ludicrous, especially since most of the compute power required to use the product is expended during client-side code execution. So instead, Figma charges you for using the app itself, but only once you want to add another collaborator to your private projects (at which point you're obviously happy with the product and probably willing to pay).

If you want to monetize this, I would encourage you to think along those same lines. You are building a product for somebody - but for whom? You can answer that question by letting people use it for free and seeing who likes it the most - marketers? news article editors? - and then building more features to focus the product on their use case.

Don't think about charging by volume - think about getting consistent usage from users who face this problem often, and then figure out how to integrate into their existing workflows. Then charge them money to do that.

Re:Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramat... by moremetadata on Friday February 10, 2023 @03:38AM (#34737158)
Well there are plenty of images which can be used on this tool to great effect.

Here are a couple of examples.

https://i.imgur.com/52GrAOU.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/ax11u2c.jpeg