Alexander Bickov

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Designer who builds tools for AI coding workflows. Right now that's SlimSnap, a Mac app that turns a screenshot into structured JSON your terminal agent can read instead of guessing at pixels. More interested in fixing the input than chasing the model.

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  • SlimSnap
    SlimSnapYour AI doesn't know which button you mean
    Jun 2026
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    Joined Product HuntMarch 6th, 2015

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If models get smarter, why does the same task cost more?

Not a complaint about pricing. A real question I could not answer until I went looking.

The intuition is that a better model needs fewer attempts, so a job should get cheaper. My bill kept going the other way, and the price per token had gone down, not up.

The answer turned out to be in the docs. Reasoning models produce a block of internal work before they answer, and OpenAI's guide says it plainly: those tokens are "not visible via the API" but are "billed as output tokens". Anywhere from a few hundred to tens of thousands of them. Anthropic bills the same way.

You can always tell when a landing page was made by an agent. How?

Not the code. The page itself.

Mine is the empty state. Agents build the happy path and stop, so there is never a screen for zero items, no error state, nothing for the slow connection.

After that it is section heights. Every block the same height down the page, because nothing was ever weighted against anything else.

The one I keep seeing lately is that the footer is the most designed part of the site. Giant logo at the bottom, template above it.

What screenshot tool do you actually use?

Most people either never left the built-in shortcut or installed something years ago and never looked at the category again. I want to see the real spread, and more than that, what happens to the image after you take it.

Answer in this format so the thread stays scannable:

Tool name: Your answer here...
Link: Your answer here...

[ ] Free
[ ] Paid
[ ] Built-in

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