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by st3ve445678 1262 days ago
Shouldn't the product page have a picture of the product? Strange not to include that so people can quickly see what this looks like.
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Agreed very much! I googled and found this tweet with a screenshot seemingly by OP when this was launched in Jan 2022:

https://twitter.com/sindresorhus/status/1481312807287427075

This is a tweet thread that also has some more updates, screenshots and GIFs that show the tool in action. Satisfied my itch to know how the product looks/works (I dont have any iOS device so I am not going to use it in any way myself)

Or follow the link to the App Store and look at the screenshots there.
Well, speaking for myself -- I dont use any iOS device I so never had the need/habit to visit AppStore links to learn about apps, so I probably didn't have the learned neural pathway to click on it to satisfy my curiosity.

In fact I just clicked on it now on my PC and it's taking forever to load -- probably blocked by uBlock Origin / uMatrix by default.

Also, the original page seems to have since been upated to show screenshots. So everyone should be happy including me :)

Indeed -- while it's surprising to find them not even present on the site, the App Store[1] will always have screenshots.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604176982

As I said in another comment, not sure what you mean, the landing page has a screenshot: https://sindresorhus.com/apps/one-thing/screenshot1.jpg

Are you perhaps blocking external images from loading, perhaps via an ad blocker?

Lack of screenshots is so common with cool stuff that is posted on Hacker News. I am a very visual person, so it completely blows my mind that someone wouldn't include one single screenshot for something they spent so much time building.

But, I have come to believe that most Hacker News users are NOT visual people -- they get that warm an fuzzy feeling about an idea simply from reading about it. That's great, but I'm writing this comment so they realize that there are other people who only get about half way there by reading about it and that screenshots are very important for the other half of the population that they're trying to get interested in their project.

In this case one doesn’t even need to be a visual person. I can’t even understand what this app does without a screenshot.
I recently rewrote my website and product screenshots is still a todo. Just follow the App Store button for screenshots.
You may not be a visual person, but many people are. Add this tag and you'll have a screenshot on your site.

<img src="https://is3-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple126/v4/51/a7/...