Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web
snag.gyWoah. 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.
It'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 :)
Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to read your clipboard.
Which browser are you using? It only needs an applet for browsers that can't support the clipboard api (unless it detected it wrong, which is possible).
Safari / WebKit nightly.
It's just Chuck Testa!
(sorry, couldn't resist…)
Reddit is bleeding...
if I wagered a guess, I'd say 90% (maybe higher...??) of HN users are relatively regular reddit users as well
Very 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.
yeah, agreed -- my comment was more just a random thought -- I appreciate that the two community styles stay mostly separate
And 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.
Yeah, that's cool. I chuckled at your comment, and I didn't downvote (I can't. Guess I don't have enough karma). Just trying to abide by the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).
I 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.
On 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.
You can press "delete original" when you edit it. The original gets removed from S3 servers once the Delete request propagates through Cloudfront.
Have you thought about using Canvas to do client side cropping?
This 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.
>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
Same here. OSX 10.7.4, Chrome 23.0.1271.95.
Neat 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.
Here's screenshot sharing for the paranoid (macosx):
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.
Is 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
This is fantastic. I had no idea you could even do that (read from clip board). This really is fantastic.
Here's a nice explanation (courtesy of StackOverflow): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6333814/how-does-the-past...
It's very useful when composing in gmail.
Better 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!
I 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.
Would you mind sharing what Droplr's issues are?
Cloudapp have.
This 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 :)
This 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).
Imgur also can upload from clipboard and/or drag/drop.
http://pasteboard.co/ seems to have a better UI than this but it lacks the editor. Good Job!
GrabBox + Dropbox works good for me.
Just command+shift+4 and it transfers it to my public folder with a link in my clipboard.
Those public links though can get turned off pretty quick right if there's a lot of traffic to that image? Or no?
The developers clearly don't have Macs.
GMail on Chrome had/s this feature!
Ha, never realised it was a Chrome only feature... mainly since I only use Chrome these days. But was about to say the same thing!
Very cool, seems pretty useful. Worked great for me but I only spent a few minutes on it.
Same here! How does this work under the hood?
I've been looking for a service like this for quite some time. Very cool!
It's brilliant if you want to quickly show someone a screenshot.
Not a big fan of Java applets, but besides that, good job!
Very nice. Any plans to use Web Intents?
So simple it's genius. Great idea.
How did this make the front page?
Because people up-voted it.