... want to paste it straight into Slack or ChatGPT. Comment from Daryna Radiichuk(@daryna_radiichuk): Teampaper for MacOs is the best for me, I use it since 2020 and it's free Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): Tool name: SlimSnap Link: https://slimsnap.ai [ ] Free [ ] Paid [ ] Built-in OS: [ ] Mac [ ] Windows [ ] Linux Shortcut you actually press: Shift+Cmd+S for a region, Shift+Cmd+L for a full scrolling page What happens after the capture (annotate, drop in Slack, paste into ...

... shape, 11x smaller, about 99% of the pixels gone. Text that was 28px tall arrives under 3px. That's the whole reason long screenshots get useless answers. The model isn't being lazy, it's reading a gray smear. SlimSnap handles it in two parts. The capture gets cut into frames small enough to survive the resize, and the text goes over separately as JSON with coordinates, which has no height limit at all. A 28,000px page arrives intact ... ... quiet one. Comment from Roopesh Donde(@roopesh_donde): Ugh that's strange, especially since it takes more tokens to process an image. I've moved on to pasting only text and logs, even for a full site. SlimSnap

... solve creative velocity for small brands" would have been "you can't affordably." Now the answer is "AI generation of variations that are actually shippable, not slop." Same problem, different physics. So the split I'd draw is idea vs approach. If AI hands you a problem you haven't personally seen, the risk is you're building for a hypothesis nobody has validated. But if you already saw the problem and AI just unlocks a viable solution, that ... ... whole thing. Tool-first builders end up looking for a problem their tech happens to solve. Problem-first builders end up with tech that happens to solve something real. Looks identical on a landing page, completely different underneath. Shipping SlimSnap

... bandage" as a test for any problem statement. Quick one: do you find the bleed has to come first, or can the bandage lead if it's vivid enough? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): Problem first, always. For @SlimSnap it's this: you paste a screenshot into a coding agent and it edits the wrong element on a busy screen, so you redo the work. The fix is marking the exact element so the agent acts on that instead ... ... more than any UI polish did. So yeah, I d say naming the problem is the actual unlock. The demo just has to not get in the way of it. Comment from Viraj Parab(@viraj_parab): StartupHQ to organize competitor

... time consuming content, more time creating it Taking more breaks since my brain needs rest Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): Love this, thanks for keeping the accountability going Nika. My Q3: Work goals: Keep the commit streak alive, ship @SlimSnap improvements weekly instead of in bursts Take marketing as seriously as building. It was my weak side, so more distribution and less hiding in the editor Build in public on X properly, share the real experience (the wins, the boring ... ... middle, the competitor

... busmark_w_nika): @archanabakshi  Are you vibecoding it or building it on your own? When the site is live, feel free to share it! :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dalemooney  Do you know any other good alternatives to Stripe I could use with my extension I am building? https://chromewebstore.google.co... For sure, because once Stripe bans you, there is back and forth with that. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abijahkaj  4 items are enough ... ... building Qualtix, my 5 are: 1. ChatGPT - product thinking, copy, SEO structure, and debugging direction 2. VS

... guess which element on a busy screen I actually meant, and it edits the wrong one. Then I'm re-prompting, which is its own iteration tax. Curious how much of your rework is this specific thing versus raw model quality. And what's your fix, crop hard, or describe the element in text? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @thenameisarian  Sharpest breakdown in the thread. The "if you're describing what should NOT change, use the sketch" rule ... ... single element), which also happen to be the most frequent. The relational and counterfactual cases want pixels or motion. You've basically written the doc for when to use which. Mind if I borrow "useful seam" and the box-vs

... These came from people who tried the SlimSnap screenshot-to-JSON workflow during launch and asked for something specific. Listing in the order they came in. Screenshot capture for scrollable content and open dropdowns. Right now the capture clips to the visible window, so if a dropdown or long list is open, parts get cut. Balpreet S flagged this on LinkedIn. Native Mac app screenshot support (scope verification). Several people asked whether SlimSnap

... flow too, so I made it: capture, annotate if you need to, and the agent reads the latest one on its own. Path and metadata handled. Screenshot as part of the conversation, not a file chore. It's called SlimSnap. Which part would you want most, the auto-send or the annotate step? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @rahulbhavsar  That lines up with how I built it, auto-send is the default. The Claude Code skill reads the latest ...

... SlimSnap ships a Claude Code skill that auto-loads your latest screenshot so the agent reads the structured JSON without you pasting anything. That's the "magic" version of the workflow. For everything else (Cursor, Lovable, bolt.new , Replit AI, claude.ai ), the screenshot spec works but you paste the JSON into chat manually. It works, just not as smooth as the Claude Code flow. Where do you actually paste screenshots into AI tools today? Vote in the comments, ideally with ... ... bolt to edit the existing component or generate a new variant? That changes how the auto-loader should structure the JSON. Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @peter_nick  Right, capture volume is upstream of paste destination. The take-vs

... tokens instead of several thousand for the picture. Curious how the makers here deal with the "which element" problem. Prompt harder? Crop tighter? Something smarter? Comment from Alexander Bickov(@bickov): @kalvinio  Ha, same instinct, I built one too (SlimSnap). Since you went further than most: does yours output the boxes and text as structured data the agent reads, or does it still hand over the marked-up image? The jump from "prettier screenshot" to "structured reference the model doesn ...