[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made beautiful screenshot generator
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Show HN: I made beautiful screenshot generator
Author : jdsane
Score : 29 points
Date : 2025-06-22 07:54 UTC (15 hours ago)
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| asipasip wrote:
| What is this for? I don't see the use case.
| zdc1 wrote:
| I'm equally confused. Why would I want to take a perfectly good
| screenshot and then shrink it down so it fits within a square
| and fill >50% of the canvas pixels with a gradient background?
| Elfener wrote:
| I think this is some (new?) social media trend, my school
| started doing it too with their images on facebook. Half the
| image is just a border so the actual image is really low res.
| I have no idea why they do it though.
| Hendrikto wrote:
| Some social media sites and apps like to cut off the sides
| to fit content onto different screen sizes and aspect
| ratios.
|
| I think adding a border is an attempt to preserve the
| essential parts of the images in those situations. It
| really should not be necessary, but alas modern/stupid
| problems require modern/stupid solutions.
| jan_Sate wrote:
| so it's for drawing attention on social media?
| benjaminwootton wrote:
| Because it looks nice and makes it pop in a social media
| feed.
| jdsane wrote:
| this is current way of showing design screenshots, as plain
| screenshots gets buried under and most of the time designer,
| or frontend devs generate their own workflow for handling
| this grunt work of beautifying their work. it's tool to
| remove that pain point.
| brokariim wrote:
| As a dev who loves sharing stuff on X, this is super useful.
| You can use it to post clean screenshots for: - showing off a
| new UI component you built - sharing code snippets or errors
| with context - bug reports that don't look like chaos
| asipasip wrote:
| But it's not a clean screenshot. There's a space-wasting
| gradient fill behind it.
| rikroots wrote:
| I can maybe see some value for opening a web page like this,
| then taking a set of screenshots (for me CMD+SHIFT+4) which
| automatically get added to the web page, which the user can
| then curate in some way to generate a final image for download.
| If the dev who built this web page can work out a way to get
| the web page to automatically ingest user screenshots while the
| page is open then I think this tool becomes a lot more
| interesting.
|
| I did a similar thing for generating a video from multiple
| screen captures - GitHub repo here:
| https://github.com/KaliedaRik/sc-screen-recorder
| 8mobile wrote:
| hello compliments for moocup, your screenshot generator is
| convenient, fast and really easy to use for example for X o bsky.
| Some tips, currently there are only a few colors for the borders,
| I would also like to have the possibility of a movement or
| transaction and export to gif. what do you think would be
| possible? thanks
| jdsane wrote:
| hey, thank you for the kind words. I'm planning to add a color
| picker so users can pick color of their choice. currently, I
| have no plans of adding option for any video format. as it is
| my hobby project, i'd like to focus more on the primary
| features that might be needed. although i like the possibility
| of it.
| DidYaWipe wrote:
| How is this a screenshot generator? You have to drag an existing
| image onto it...
| stavros wrote:
| The title is a bit misleading, he actually generated a
| screenshot beautifier.
| jdsane wrote:
| yeah, it is a screenshot beautifier in a sense.
| benjaminwootton wrote:
| It's nice. I actually pay for something like this.
|
| The only thing I think I would need to switch is canvas size,
| ideally where I can select sizes for Twitter, Instagram etc.
|
| Being able to paste an image would be nice too.
|
| Nice work!
| afandian wrote:
| What value does it provide? (Genuine question, not intended as
| snarky!)
| petepete wrote:
| I use a similar tool, Gradia.
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| https://github.com/AlexanderVanhee/Gradia
|
| The border can look nice in certain settings, the annotation
| tools are handy for drawing attention to specific elements.
| It has the ability to hide/mask things too. All wrapped in a
| nice intuitive interface.
| jdsane wrote:
| Hi; i'm the creator of tool. it's supposed to be sharing your
| product screenshots as input, using gradient backgrounds and
| some borders; which it'll automatically try to assign ass
| some curvatures and such. and export.
|
| This process is repeated daily by designers, frontend devs,
| indie builders who creates products, ui snippets that they
| want world to see and grab their attention. as if you share a
| normal screenshot, most of the people would simply ignore it.
| in the sense, sometimes if you present your output wrapped in
| a good wrapper people would perceive it to be of high value
| and assess further results as such.
|
| hopefully that clears up!
| jdsane wrote:
| great to hear, i plan to keep moocup free, forever. it is my
| hobby project and accept coffee payments to support it. but no
| plans of any kind of monthly plans whatsoever. I want user to
| come, drop some photos and within few seconds produce beautiful
| output. i hate subscriptions myself, and do not want to burden
| users with it. let me know of possibility of supporting it via
| coffee payments, which users would support if they wish to.
| thih9 wrote:
| Looks great, congrats on the launch.
|
| Could you tell us more about how you made it? What libraries did
| you use, or did you code it with an AI?
| DrHoenikker wrote:
| This is a frame generator. It accepts images, assumed to be
| screenshots, as an input.
| jdsane wrote:
| yup, that's exactly right.
| erikgahner wrote:
| Looking good! What does it mean that it is free forever? That the
| code is available on GitHub and we should not have to be
| concerned about the site going offline or moving to a different
| place (that is not free)? Or, if it takes off, that we should
| begin to see ads? Or that this is the free tier option and future
| iterations can expect you to pay to, say, remove a watermark?
| jdsane wrote:
| this is free in the sense that users don't have to worry about
| paying a dime for using it. i have no current plan for any kind
| of monetization. it's my hobby tool that i use and expect
| people to use without worrying.
| bapak wrote:
| > free forever
|
| conflicts with
|
| > no current plan
| jdsane wrote:
| no plan meaning adding features, not in the sense adding
| monetization.
|
| Free forever as asking NEVER to users for any kind of money
| for using service.
| unixhero wrote:
| I liked its output. Maybe there is a use for it?
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