ReadWriteWeb Reviews ScrnShots!! May 1st
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:
- We’re working on a few uploading tools right now that should make integration with your desktop quite seemless. You can check out a video preview of the ScrnShots mac desktop application here: http://blog.scrnshots.com/2008/04/09/screencast-mac-desktop-app-preview/
- We are also going to be releasing the API to the public a few weeks after launch, which will enable developers to build their own tools to share with the community.
Once again, thank you to Sarah and ReadWriteWeb!! We really appreciate it!