Screen.rip

Dev tools

screenshot api

SHOW HN2017

195points
120comments
#171of 2,242 in 2017
Top 8%of 2017 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

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

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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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • This 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 HN
    • The clip to a specific DOM element seems unique to this.
      tyingq on HN
    • I 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • If 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 HN
    • Looks 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
  • 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 HN
    • I 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 HN
    • I 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

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