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Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web
- basseq 14y agoI've been looking for a service like this for quite some time. Very cool!
- PButcher93 14y agoIt's brilliant if you want to quickly show someone a screenshot.
- danvoell 14y agoSo simple it's genius. Great idea.
- aridiculous 14y agoBetter 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!
- drx 14y agoI 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.
- nwh 14y agoSnaggy needs to use a Java applet to read your clipboard. Haha, nope.
- p4bl0 14y agoIt's just Chuck Testa! (sorry, couldn't resist…)
- indenturedsmile 14y agoReddit is bleeding...
- sharkweek 14y agoif I wagered a guess, I'd say 90% (maybe higher...??) of HN users are relatively regular reddit users as well
- indenturedsmile 14y agoVery 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.
- sharkweek 14y agoyeah, agreed -- my comment was more just a random thought -- I appreciate that the two community styles stay mostly separate
- p4bl0 14y agoAnd 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.
- 19_ploT 14y agohttp://pasteboard.co/ http://pasteboard.co/ seems to have a better UI than this but it lacks the editor. Good Job!
- DGCA 14y ago>You can upload an image file just by copying it from your file browser and pasting it to snaggy. Multiple file upload is coming soon! This is what I'm getting when I try that: http://i.imgur.com/l8YKs.png http://i.imgur.com/l8YKs.png
- nrj 14y agoSame here. OSX 10.7.4, Chrome 23.0.1271.95.
- binarymax 14y agoVery nice. Any plans to use Web Intents?
- citricsquid 14y agoThis 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.
- skylamer 14y agoimgur already has this feature
- tharris0101 14y agoThis 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).
- silasb 14y agoGrabBox + Dropbox works good for me. Just command+shift+4 and it transfers it to my public folder with a link in my clipboard.
- nate 14y agoThose public links though can get turned off pretty quick right if there's a lot of traffic to that image? Or no?
- johnmurch 14y agoThis 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 :)
- gprasanth 14y agoGMail on Chrome had/s this feature!
- kamjam 14y agoHa, never realised it was a Chrome only feature... mainly since I only use Chrome these days. But was about to say the same thing!
- nileshgr 14y agoImgur also can upload from clipboard and/or drag/drop.
- recroad 14y agoHow did this make the front page?
- PButcher93 14y agoBecause people up-voted it.
- martinrd 14y agoNeat 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." I have FF 17, with no JAVA.
- dutchbrit 14y agoNot a big fan of Java applets, but besides that, good job!
- RoboTeddy 14y agoHere's screenshot sharing for the paranoid (macosx): https://github.com/RoboTeddy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/screenshot https://github.com/RoboTeddy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/screen... It uploads to your own s3 bucket (https for both uploads and downloads). I set up a global hotkey (cmd-4) using Alfred.
- JeremyMorgan 14y agoVery cool, seems pretty useful. Worked great for me but I only spent a few minutes on it.
- dirkk0 14y agoSame here! How does this work under the hood?
- ChuckMcM 14y agoI 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.
- roryokane 14y agoOn 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.
- lifeformed 14y agoYou can press "delete original" when you edit it. The original gets removed from S3 servers once the Delete request propagates through Cloudfront.
- chrisbroadfoot 14y agoHave you thought about using Canvas to do client side cropping?
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- lectrick 14y agoThe developers clearly don't have Macs.
- lifeformed 14y agoWoah. 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.
- PButcher93 14y agoIt's great tool, hence why I posted it here. The last post of snag.gy was nearly a year ago and it got basically no feedback. My interest in web development has increased over the past through years, so simple effective tools like this appeal to me. I use it on a regular basis now so thanks for that :)
- vscarpenter 14y agoIs 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
- CWIZO 14y agoThis is fantastic. I had no idea you could even do that (read from clip board). This really is fantastic.
- nimrody 14y agoHere's a nice explanation (courtesy of StackOverflow): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6333814/how-does-the-paste-image-from-clipboard-functionality-work-in-gmail-and-google-c http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6333814/how-does-the-past... It's very useful when composing in gmail.