Screen.rip
Dev tools
screenshot api
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
11 positive, 24 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 12 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score +0.01.
Pricing: 5 for, 6 againstIdea: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cheap per-use pricing
From 3 comments
$7 is cheap imo. I paid for a service similar to yours for years. Their price point was close to 10 times as high as yours, yet I happily paid my monthly subscription. I love this.
rokhayakebe on HNI disagree. $7 is extremely cheap. I really like that it's per use and not a monthly charge. I tried dabbling with [chromeless](https://github.com/graphcool/chromeless) and…
turtlebits on HNThis seems like a great idea and I don't think $7 is steep. There are free options about but it's still cool none the less.
lewisj489 on HN
Scrolling and capturing a DOM element are useful features
From 3 comments
What does auto-updating mean? I run a website builders review website and have always wanted to write a script that captures every pricing page so that my readers could scan them…
steve-benjamins on HNThe clip to a specific DOM element seems unique to this.
tyingq on HNI like the "capture an area" feature. Very nice!
_ao789 on HN
Handles emojis and non-US sites
From 1 comment
It does! check emojipedia.com and popular non US sites like taobao.com. I did that heavy lifting ;)
laktek on HN
Objections
Setting your own headless Chrome is cheap and easy enough
From 3 comments
Yeah, you can implement this in-house for your needs in less then 30 minutes using 512mb DO droplet or other in-house devops tool server for free.
romanovcode on HNI know but if I need to use an API to an external server I can also launch a command locally. 7$ is not much but I don't see any real benefit unless you want to capture a…
lucapinello on HNIf it’s using Chrome headless, it’s superior to wkhtmltopdf. The latter has lots of little gotchas and things that may render fine in a browser but not in wkhtmltopdf. Chrome…
mpetrovich on HN
Font rendering looks worse than macOS screenshots
From 1 comment
Well pitched and put together IMO but the thing that always irritates me about services like these is the so-so font rendering. Screenshots taken on macOS just look better for…
petercooper on HN
Token expires after 365 days
From 1 comment
The 365 day expiry time is a little frustrating - but you probably don't want customers stretching out the quota over 2+ years.
voltagex_ on HN
Some pages did not work
From 1 comment
I've tried 7 different pages from our setup and not one of them worked.
jpetersonmn on HN
Requests
Animated GIF or screencast capture
From 2 comments
Awesome product, awesome landing page, awesome pricing scheme. I wish you only success! Next step: animated screengrabs (gif/webp)? :)
dvt on HNLooks cool! Maybe you can add an option to record the screen / area for x seconds as a gif, it might be useful in some cases.
etoykan on HN
Bulk pricing
From 1 comment
Any consideration towards bulk pricing? 100's of millions?
RhodesianHunter on HN
Bitcoin or blockchain payments
From 1 comment
Any chance you implement bitcoin/blockchain payments. So I can pay you through code and then programmatically get my token?
csomar on HN
Browser selection, such as older IE
From 1 comment
Incidentally over the last few weeks I've been looking around the tools to monitor the appearance of websites; think of this as a step up from "is my site still online?"…
kylecordes on HN
Questions
How to connect localhost to the web for screenshots
From 1 comment
Screenshots are useful, but diffs of screenshots are even more useful. You could maybe immitate the workflow used by wraith? https://github.com/bbc-news/wraith For example to…
ivan_ah on HN
Whether auto-updating captures new screenshots when pages change
From 2 comments
What does auto-updating mean? I run a website builders review website and have always wanted to write a script that captures every pricing page so that my readers could scan them…
steve-benjamins on HNI mean to evolve the product screenshots as you ship more features or make cosmetic changes to the app. I assume it's PITA to keep the screenshots consistent with the actual app…
laktek on HN
Alternatives named
Pixelbug
From 2 comments
I’ve been having the same sort of frustrations and needs for a while, and recently launch something to scratch that itch [1] It’s tangently similar to screen.rip, but it’s much…
thecodemonkey on HNI was going to mention Pixelbug in the comments as a possible alternative. Disclosure: I know the parent commenter. And the creator. :)
dabernathy89 on HN
WebPageTest
From 1 comment
But WebPageTest is free (and setting up a private instance isn’t hard).
chrisweekly on HN
thum.io
From 1 comment
A lot of talk about pricing here, so I add my favorite www.thum.io - charging $2 for 10.000 with first 1.000 for free. What I like about them in particular is their buffering:…
Gys on HN
urlbox.io
From 1 comment
I've just done something like this recently and it's not as easy as you might think. It is easy to make a thing happen quickly with a few lines of code, but making it reliable…
justinph on HN
wkhtmltopdf
From 1 comment
How different is from this free tool? https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
lucapinello on HN