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Why will I need this? (What problem do you solve?))

I use Pocket to read things later, and offline. I use screenshots to convey a visual point of view, and it's usually ephemeral. I don't keep them.

The only other images I store are camera photos, but I have Google Photos for that, and I pay $1.99 for 100GB of storage (2/5 of your pricing).

Happy to hear what your thoughts are.

Hi! Thanks for your feedback :)

I also use Pocket for saving things to read later. What I needed was a way to save visuals of a website. Not just references but images (since they might change design etc later).

Primarily I made and use it to save designs, copywriting, etc that I like for inspiration.

IC, I use Trello for that. But thanks for sharing :) Always love swedish startups w/ their beautiful design.

Apart from obvious stuff like designs and images I want to save, I sometimes capture text conversations because it is simply more convenient to just store an image instead of copy pasting somewhere.

I don't see any reason why would somebody pay for it. There are free addons to upload screenshots directly on imgur already.

Hi! Yes there are some addons like that available. However, I target developers/designers and tailor all features for them :)

What sort of features do you have for developers?

Hi! 1. Capture actual screenshot (since design may change)

2. Save source (for getting back quickly)

3. High resolution screenshots so you can see all details

I'm also planning on:

1. Showing colors and more from the screenshots :)

2. Smart categorizing

But still keep it simple and clean :)

In case you are not aware of this already: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Bumba%20Klart

Klart in Swedish means "clear", "finished/done" or "of course" depending on what context it is used in.

E.g: Klart jag ska = Of course I will

Considering this application is built by Swedish developers, I'm guessing its name originates from the Swedish language.

That's correct :)

I wonder if that's from colonial usage, 'clart' is a Northern English/Scottish term for muck, attested since at least 1808: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UGAJAAAAQAAJ&printsec=fr...

it's most commonly used as 'clarty' now here: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-word-of-the-week-clart...

Jamieson's etymological dictionary suggests south germanic 'Kladd' as the origin of the Scots term.

LPT: Never click on an Urban Dictionary link if you're at work.

I take a lot of screenshots for work doing competitive analysis with Chrome Extension Screenshot Minus, which are saved to Dropbox.

Now, what problem do I actually have that I have sought out a solution for but couldn't find? The abilty to automatically search these screenshots' content. eg. I know I took a screen of a certain site and want to find it quickly, without estimating when it was captured and previewing images around that date and hope to find it.

Accomplish this by either OCR on the images and index the content to make is searchable or save the HTML of the page with the image and index that.

I've looked into OneNote, Evernote and although they have some OCR it's meant for taking pictures of documents and doesn't kill my pain.

Put that in a Chrome extension and service I would gladly pay for that since it solves a real pain that costs me time and had too much friction.

That's great insight and advice! Thank you :)!

Saving the HTML or the stripped content with the image wouldn't be much of a problem to make right? Why OCR when the screenshot is of a website?

I sometimes screenshot an entire w full page, sometimes just a portion with a manual crop with Screenshot Minus extemsion. I only want to index the part I capture and search the content within.

Ah that is indeed more complex... Can't you tie some services together that do that? If you are the only user it can't be expensive. If no-one already did that? Would actually be interesting to try. There are OCR cloud services ; just no clue how solid they are ; anyone tried here?

Saving the HTML would be really useful, the OCR bit would also come in handy for the aforementioned cropped content use case, but also for dynamically loaded content?

if you have firefox it's pretty easy to take a screenshot of the fullpage by opening the console and typing something along the lines `screenshot --fullpage`

if you have OSX and dropbox, you can sync your screenshots automatically to dropbox as you take them.

my point of view: this is a sweet plugin if it came for free. I have no incentive to pay for it, unless I'm a very lazy person.

Hi! Thank you for your feedback!

Sure you can take screenshots today and organize them yourself. But the organization bothered me and this is why I decided to make Klart :). It was just to much hassle (for me).

Hey drikerf, that's nice that your taking the time to answer comments here. I'll try to make a more constructive comment: I think the pricing is too aggressive, people might like the idea but will not jump before being able to try it. I would change the monetization to mimic Pocket/Dropbox. Everything is free but if you want to add functionalities you gotta pay.

Hi!

My current model is motivated by being able to provide a really good service for the people who are paying. I'm afraid the quality could suffer if I go for a freemium model. Anyway, I appreciate your honesty and will consider it :).

> We'll keep your data safe and accessible for you anywhere, anytime.

I would like the option to backup the data, I don't want it to only live in the cloud. Is there an option for me?

I pay for Pinboard already, could your service serve as that + more?

Sen gillar jag er design, svenskt ren och minimal! But you should fix the page size, 1.6 MB, you don't really need bootstrap for that minimal page, do you? ;)

Cool! I don't want to lock anyone in or make them uncomfortable. I'll definitely add a way to download your data smoothly :)

About Pinboard. Some people use Klart as a visual bookmarking app, since it keeps to source of the screenshot. Did you have any specific features in mind :)?

Bootstrap - It's so convenient though, isn't it? I'll be looking into optimizing later :)

Ok, I didn't realize it was screenshots only. But is it limited to the browser (since it's a browser plugin)? If so, you should be able to save the url with the screenshot?

Just a tip for a useful feature.

The URL of where the screenshot was taken is saved, so you can always go back to where it was taken. This way, some people use Klart as a visual bookmarking app :).

Props for a landing page that quickly describes what the thing does. However it seems to me that Gyazo does the same plus snapshotting of windows/applications, easy sharing, Slack-integration, single sign-on, etc. As it is, I'd have a hard time justifying picking this instead.

Hi! Thanks for your feedback! Gyazo looks like a great app.

With Klart I'm targeting makers/developers/designers that want to capture and organize inspiration mostly. I'm not trying to be the go-to solution for all kinds of screenshots but are instead focusing on this group (including myself). This also means all features are tailored for this group :).

Do you have any features planned to differentiate it for that niche? I'm asking because all the people I know who use Gyazo are precisely makers/developers/designers. I know that it's sometimes possible to carve out a business despite competition by having a simpler product focused for a specific niche and communicating using that demographic's language - I just wonder if that's realistic here. The Gyazo-users I know seem to use most of its features - e.g. a designer would both use it to share inspiration with other designers or capturing and sharing a small gif of a part of an application to easily showcase a bug to a developer.

Thanks again for your feedback :)

Making Klart was pretty much "scratching my own itch". I do think many tools out there for this task has too many features for my taste. I'm adding features for color extraction and organization soon but will always keep it very simple and clean.

Yet Another App. What about Pinterest? And it's free.. I would rather pay for something that would help me organize pinterest, like changing descriptions of several pins in one go, etc.

Take this is as a constructive criticism from a designer.

Thank you!

What differentiates Klart from Pinterest is that it saves a screenshot of the website, so that when it changes, you still have your screenshot :). I'm also going to add features to make life easier for developers/designers.

What does this do that you can't do with http://puush.me/ or ShareX?

The only difference is this is limited to the browser.

Hi! Thanks for your feedback!

I know there exists apps with similar functionality. Klart is made to help myself and other makers/developers/designers to capture and organize design, copywriting and marketing inspiration. I'm tailoring features for this group and trying to make it as simple and easy to use as possible, with great functionality :).

You can read more about the background here: https://klart.co/about

Smart to monetize from the beginning vs disappearing later

Thank you! I'm trying to find a viable business model from the beginning :)

Before I saw the pricing, I thought I wouldn't use this because it'll disappear. I don't need it but if I did, I'd be confident. You may want to do yearly pricing.

Thanks! I'll look into that :)

Can't you use Google Save to do something similar? What are the benefits on top of that?

That's correct, Google save provides similar features. Klart is targeted towards makers/developers/designers and the features will be tailored for them (and me :)) such as color extraction, organizing etc.

I don't understand why all the screen capturing software has a way to capture video instead of a static image, but they don't offer to option to convert to a .gif.

Hi! You cannot capture videos with Klart. It's only for static images. For GIF I use and recommend recordit.co :)

Anyone know of a recordit.co where I can store the file locally? (one that doesn't produce 3Gb for a 30second film).

Upload and then download is not an option for security reasons.

Quicktime allows window recording. Camtasia 2 as well. The list probably goes on and on so just google it.

Sorry not feeling it

Shameless plug: why not something like this: https://github.com/grafie/acceptum/tree/master/firefox/dist

Save screen-shots to the desktop with the option of encrypting them...

Oh, and it's also free...(Linux + Firefox 35+)

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