Pablo by Buffer - Create engaging images for your social media posts in 30s

You guys are so fast :) Excited to see Pablo on PH, what a privilege. Images on social media are something we've been observing and making use of ourselves at Buffer for a long time now, and some time ago we published data about Tweets with images getting 150% more Retweets. We wanted to help people benefit from images more easily by creating a tool with the same simplicity in mind that we often hear as a reason for people using Buffer for scheduling their posts. Here's our MVP :) I've not been all that involved in Pablo, it's been an inspiring effort from @brian_lovin, @patrikward, @sahir_memon, @kevanlee and @leowid. I must say, we still feel we're pre product / market fit (or at least not certain of the fit) with Pablo, and we're working hard to learn and move towards a great mini product people can get a lot of value from. We've done a lot of more private customer development and just today we decided to roll it out more widely and send some traffic from a few places in our app and on our blog, so we can give the product 'oxygen' and learn more. I think you guys are probably the best group of people we could ask for help with getting Pablo to product / market fit. We'd love your thoughts on what we could improve, things that stand out, things that are missing or things we have that are unnecessary :) Also, ask me anything! (update - heading to sleep now here in Sydney, my co-workers around the world will be checking the comments :)

This reminds me a lot of http://www.tryspruce.com/, have been using it a lot lately. Nice to see that buffer has something similar now!

I've been waiting for the Buffer team to release something like this. It's a good MVP and I'm looking forward to seeing how this is incorporated into the Buffer Chrome extension (a one-click option would be nice). While these artistic image + text photos are beautiful, in most situations I'd prefer to use a hero image pulled from the site I'm sharing or a screenshot of the page itself, similar to this tweet of mine. Is this something you're considering, @joelgascoigne?

What is the main difference between this one and https://shareasimage.com/, besides the option to upload your own picture, browser extension etc. And how do you think you would position yourself different on the market?

Very nice idea :)

So slick.

Another great idea, Buffer folk — and one that fits beautifully with your core offering. This will definitely make it much easier to share visually compelling content via Buffer.

Easy to use but at the same time customizable and the ability to add to buffer or post to social with one click makes this my go to tool for all quick social sharing graphics. 30% of my 85k tweets include graphics and that number will only increase thanks to this tool!

This is really great. Like someone mentioned above I could see a huge fit as extension. On any page, be able to highlight a block of text, click the extension or right click and then it loads up the tool with all the images on the page, plus access to the addition images in your library. Customize and Buffer!

Brilliant. Thoroughly useful! I have had to use memegenerators for this. I have two contradictory comments/feedback. 1. It seems to me there are too many options. Keeping it simple would help adoption. The old Secret approach may be helpful. 2. Have you thought about allowing people to add their uploaded imaged to the pool of images.