As more and more screenshots roll in, I keep realizing how important a good header is. The simplest of layouts can really stand out from the crowd if accompanied by a good header.
Here’s some screenshots of headers from the past week that really caught my eye:
I know it’s only day 2, but we’ve already added a few new features!
Although small, they are worth noting:
First, on profile pages you can now view recent activity “on you” and “by you”.
Also, within days we will be launching a “logged-in” dashboard homepage that will allow you too see an aggregated list of all your and your contacts’ activity on ScrnShots.
Second, you can now subscribe to an RSS feed of your contacts uploads. No more snooping around the site to see what your contacts are doing, you can get it right from your cozy RSS reader. To subscribe to the feed go to your profile page and click the big RSS icon beside the contacts count on the left side.
Finally, we’ve heard your pleas for desktop integration, and we want you to know that we are planning to launch it on Tuesday, May 20. If you want to have a sneak peek, check out this earlier post. More details to come soon!
Hey ScrnShot-ites,
Day 1 was a huge success! We are happy to welcome just under 500 new users to the ScrnShots community!
We ended off the day with just under 10,000 page views, and 720 screenshots uploaded!
We want to thank everyone who signed up and contributed yesterday. It’s really exciting for us to see people using ScrnShots!
Hey friends,
We’re very happy to announce that ScrnShots has released to the public! It’s been a long time coming, and we would like to thank you all for being so patient and supportive.
You can signup for an account right now.
Here’s some of the features that you can look forward to:
If you find ScrnShots useful, or know someone who would, please pass it on to others! We have tried to make it super-easy for you, by including HTML embed tags beside every screenshot.
If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to voice them here.
Although ScrnShots isn’t mentioned, The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted a review of the best screenshot tools for the Mac. Looks like Skitch is a clear victor (which isn’t surprising, its a great app).
At the office, we’ve played with each of these apps extensively (as I’m sure that many of you Mac users have also). With the release of our public API, we hope that any of these tools will be able to integrate into your workflow with ScrnShots.
We are happy to introduce some new features that we have added to the profile pages. They will be implemented on Tuesday, for the public release.
The first major change is the sidebar on user profile pages which now features quick access to user stats and RSS feeds. It will also be extremely easy to add users as contacts as you can see by the big “Add As Contact” button.
And the other section that we will be adding to the profile pages is the recent activity section:
The recent activity will showcase what you’ve been up to. Within the next week it will also include activity that has been done on your items. What do you think of the additions? Feedback? Thoughts?
I would like to thank Sarah Perez and all the folks at ReadWriteWeb, for the flattering review of ScrnShots.
Here is Sarah’s take on ScrnShots:
Scrnshots, currently in private beta, is meant to serve as a community for designers to share their screenshots of interesting or beautiful designs. However, the service, which allows you to upload shots which others can use via an embed code, has the potential to be more than just a niche community for artistic types.
At first glance, ScrnShots appears to be a takeoff on sites like FFFFOUND! or We Heart It (our coverage). Those sites let you “favorite” pictures from the web as inspiring, interesting, artistic, and so on. ScrnShots takes it a step further, encouraging you to take a screenshot of the image and then upload it to their service.
She makes a few good points about ScrnShots being more than just a “niche community” for designers. She mentions the potential use for bloggers who need a place to host screenshots that are simply not important enough to take up space on your computer. These are exactly the ways in which we would love to see ScrnShots grow; users coming up with their own uses for our system.
Sarah touches on the fact that the uploading process is simply too long: “As it is right now, screenshots have to be uploaded one-by-one, a tedious process that simply takes to long for anyone to become a heavy user of the service.”
We, here at ScrnShots have two answers for this:
Once again, thank you to Sarah and ReadWriteWeb!! We really appreciate it!
Its official, ScrnShots.com will be launching to the public on May 6, 2008 at 10:00am PST.
At launch, ScrnShots.com will be completely free. Users will be able to upload unlimited screenshots to the system at no cost. On June 6, 2008 we will launch our ScrnShots PRO (paid) accounts which will include private functionality (ie: private screenshots, private groups) and unlimited screenshot uploads. At that time, basic accounts will be given a monthly cap on the number of allowed screenshot uploads. The cap will be high and won’t affect any screenshots previously uploaded to the system. Although we haven’t confirmed a final price structure for the PRO accounts, they will be inline with other image hosting services. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to express them in the comments section.
On top of what’s already on the site, we’re adding a few new features for the launch. These include:
We’re super excited to get more users on the system and start growing the design community at ScrnShots.com.
Hello ScrnShots people,
I would like to introduce myself: my name is Derek Kehler. I am “technically” not new to the ScrnShots team, but I am now “officially” part of the team. I will be acting as the Co-founder and Chief Marketing Wizard, so needless to say, you will be seeing a lot of me!
ScrnShots will be open to the public within the next few weeks, and I am extremely excited to see where you guys will take it!
We sent out a very short survey to the beta list yesterday and got lots of excellent responses. Thanks to everyone who filled it out! We’re going keep the survey open for another 24hrs, so if you haven’t done it yet, please visit the ScrnShots Pre-Release Survey to participate. Thanks for your help!