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Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly

Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly

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·February 8, 2025
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raviisoccupied

Former Product Marketing Manager here. When I saw the word 'designs' on your landing page, I assumed the application would convert my screenshot into a Figma file/equivalent. Instead it looks like your app creates social ready images of screenshotted UI. I wonder if there's a better word to use than 'designs' that better captures what looks like the intended use case.

sidebread

Thanks for your feedback, yea I got to admit there's a bit of sales language there. Hopefully I'll incorporate some more features in the future. At the moment I need to sort out something I missed - perception of a one file .exe file.

xandrius

Wait, so I take a screenshot of something and this gives it an edge, drop shadow and a background with some pattern?

I can do that probably quicker on, say, Affinity or Figma and definitely better.

The real question though is: does it use AI?

codingdave

There is no way I would ever download an .exe for something like this. If all it does is take an image, add some background and borders, and give you some sliders to adjust things... that can be a web page, where I am not putting my system's security at risk.

amelius

You're right of course, but it's kind of crazy that downloading an exe is putting our security at risk, in this day and age. It feels like our OSes are stuck in the middle ages.

sidebread

Fair point. Do you have any recommendations on how to do this alternatively, for Windows? I defaulted to .exe but obviously didn't think about the user perception of it.

Natfan

Like the user above says, a web service using CSS/JS for the image manipulation (you can get quite good perf with CSS these days)

asynchronousx

After reading the landing page, I'm still unsure what the exact use case is for this? Could just be misunderstanding the design-test-prototype workflow, but a straightforward example would be nice.

Edit: upon reading through it again I'm realizing it's a pretty screenshot maker. Which is neat. Unsure if it calls for a dedicated .exe though.

sidebread

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually a bit new to product development. What would be a recommended alternative to an executable in this case? After reading some of the other comments I'm aware of the perceived security risk.

Retr0id

What UI framework(s) does it use?

sidebread

I actually built it on CustomTkinter in Python, as that was a language I already know.

wayoverthecloud

Impressive for CustomTkinter. Well done with the UI design.

sidebread

Thanks! Otherwise I'd need to start learning C++ ...

rainonmoon

Asking people to install something with no information about how it works or who built it is... certainly a move.