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by riter 2275 days ago
Major personal use cases:

- SS during conf demo calls

- SS competitor products (UI designers, game and product designers to convey flow / features)

- SS images that don't allow download on sites (memes, fb, insta)

- SS chats to convey conversation (TG, Whatsapp, etc.)

Feedback w/o trying app:

- Would be great if it could classify app / tag app names if it recognizes the client as I may not remember the content initially but would remember whether it was chrome or whats app

- Would be great to classify and extract conversations

- Would be great to group same app SS within same time period (last hr) into the same folder

- Support video screen cap though I do this less

- Save the URL of SS if in browser

- JPEG compression

Its funny because this is an activity most people in the information work space do almost certainly weekly and there has been no innovation on this. You have plenty of room to 10x the user experience here and make a must-have app. Good luck and pls share v2 on HN!
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ghostffcode 2275 days ago
Thank you for the detailed feedback. I like the idea of grouping certain screenshots based on tags and origin. I wanted to put out the initial iteration and see what works before putting in more time. I am also working on an extension that can interface with the desktop app to provide finer details about the origin of a screenshot. Also thinking about optional backup for folks who want it. Thank you once again and I'll be sure to update on the next iteration.
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RandallBrown 2274 days ago
It's been awhile since I've used it, but Snagit does a lot of what you want. Not free though.
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paulschreiber 2275 days ago
There are a number of Chrome extensions to facilitate instagram downloading.
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riter 2274 days ago
Trusting these types of extensions are a gamble nowadays imho. Every month Chrome or infosec researchers are constantly unearthing bad actors that have built but more likely acquired large user base extensions to either inject ads, false ad attribution, or recording user behavioral data for bot fraud heuristics.

I don't disagree thought ... as most aren't privacy conscious

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toomuchtodo 2275 days ago
If the CLI is more your thing: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter
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