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Hey there, congrats on launching.

This is my Feat Requests list of dreams (take what you want) :

- image from URL a la responsinator.com

- choose automatic and adecuate background color a la https://www.screely.com/?ref=producthunt

- being able to copy to clipboard instead of downloading asset.

Great start, will bookmark

edit : screely does not provide automatic and adecuate background color. Thats a FR from them and you :). The piece of sofware that does this to my knowledge is https://johnsad.ventures/software/backgroundswitcher/ and i cannot express the easyness on the eye it provides...it is so "suave". => ex : https://i.imgur.com/GBzLTJp.jpg & https://i.imgur.com/pZIWXZM.jpg

The auto background color is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion :)

Hey! Maker of Screely here.

Really like your background color idea. In fact, liked it so much that I've just added it to Screely :)

Love it!

Congrats on agility !

Is there a specific algorithm name i should look for for this degree of "background color being so damn right" feature ? I plan to add the feature to my app also.

I'm not sure if there is a specific algorithm for this to be honest. Maybe someone else reading this can help you out?

Hello everyone! Here is a simple tool I've been working on for the past few weeks. It's a simple tool for you to generate device mockup presentation for your design. You can use it to generate image for social media posts, Dribble shots, share design with your teammates and many more!

For now it comes with phones and browser template - more coming soon! It should be easy enough to use. Looking forward to get comments and feedbacks from all of you!

Handy, bookmarked

Thank you!

Works good! I'd provide an option to make the background fill around the phone 'none' (transparant).

That's coming soon :)

Update: You can now change the background opacity to 0% to get transparent background :D

Can it be used to upload App Store preview images?

I can't figure out how to scale the image I dropped onto the phone.

You can't at the moment. It's assuming your image/design is following the phone screen dimension in the first place. But it's something I could add in the future!

These obtrusive popups "enter your email to get newsletter", in the history of the web has even a single user opted to provide their email to such a popup?

Also, if I decline, please remember that and don't show me the same popup for every other interaction with the site.

Otherwise, seems fine, if very apple-centric.

It only shows up after u clicked on the "coming soon" feature. I don't think it's obtrusive at all.

can confirm. I got no popups asking for emails yet.

Didn't realize, I was cycling through them all and it just kept popping up, that's better. I should get some sleep.

These obtrusive popups "enter your email to get newsletter", in the history of the web has even a single user opted to provide their email to such a popup?

Yes. They're very effective at capturing people's email information. Shockingly so. https://www.crazyegg.com/blog/opt-pop-ups/

Thanks, though that site gdpr "compliance" must be the most disgraceful thing I've ever seen.

Hard to take anything on that site remotely seriously.

You will never win me over using a popup though. I'd guess it's one of those things that gives great results but at the same time literally pisses off lots of visitors.

So for a reputable site that cares about its users I'd think very carefully before attempting that.

They work. All the annoying things that so many consumers claim they hate...they work. A decent enough # of those people click, hand their emails over, and then buy the thing. It happens every second of every day. (Of course I'm over generalizing here.)

Click-baits work. Fine-print: For a certain type of sites that most despise.

Okay, so popups work. Do you care about where or in which context they work or is it binary?

No, not just click baits. Pop-ups, chats, modals, interstitials, recapture emails, drip campaigns, ads, and so on. They work. In many cases. Don't ever listen to what consumers "say" they want if their actions cast a different vote.

Now your question is getting to the heart of things. Crappy sites just throw all that stuff up and walk away. They just hope the giant net catches some fish amongst the tires and plastic bottles. Good sites obsess over the data; split test damn near everything, kill what doesn't work, double down on what does work. And most importantly, look at everything in the long term, through metrics like LTV.

That's the difference between good marketers and hacks.

This is beautiful. Some feature I would suggest would make it awesome:

1 - Option to add a caption.

2 - Adding screens directly from here and fit it in the screen.

3 - Full mobile mockup. Currently, it cuts the top and bottom.

Edit: I re tried and feature 3 is there. U need to % out the size of the device.

Having the "How does it work?" modal appear first for new users would present a better FTUE, although I can see why you went with the side menu/infobar.

Perhaps making the "How does it work?" link more prominent (positioning/color/size/container styling) would help drive the right user experience.

That was my original approach. But then I decided to emphasise on the existence of the side menu. Totally agree on making the link more prominent - will definitely make that change!

This is a great example of a simple, useful idea done just right. The only thing missing that you haven't mentioned is generating shots on devices that aren't directly facing the camera. I really like isometric shots of designs and websites on devices.

Thank you! Angled/isometric devices is one of the lists in my roadmap. Will add that slowly into the device options

Have you seen sites like https://placeit.net?

Drop me a PM if you are interested in chatting more about such sites in general. I have been researching them for a while now.

@gaddafirusli what happened to the site? No longer working.

Never mind, up now.

Its an interesting concept, it would be nice to have the following

- iframe support for domain urls - isometric pngs of the phone (as opposed to looking straight at it)

This is a very usefull and nice product.

very nice

Thanks

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