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This looks awesome! Congrats on launching it.

First: Don't get bogged down by random HN commenters' feature requests. Second: I have a feature request. I'd love a native version for Mac OS with a magnifying glass thing that allows me to select a color somewhere else on my screen, and then suggest complimentary colors. I'd gladly pay for that!

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If you'll accept the step of copying the values into the tool that figures out the complementary colors for you, macOS comes with Digital Color Meter, which will tell you the color of anything on your screen.

(It’s hiding in the Utilities folder if you can’t see it in Applications.)

I just do cmd+space and type color.

Create a shortcut for it.

I have it set to CMD + Shift + C. Great to have it easily accessible

Hey, thanks to this comment, I just discovered that if you hit Cmd+Shift+C in Chrome it'll let you inspect any element by clicking on it. Cheers!

Also in Safari

and firefox

This is why I have no side projects, yet. Most problems have already been solved.

Commentbait, I smell it but still will say this.. A good side project takes one or more known solutions and applies it to a niche. There's endless niches out there if you stand still and squint a bit.

A quick and dirty way to make that ability easier (easier than creating a native app at least) would be to just offer a quick "paste or upload image here" section that then would allow the user to use a color picker on said image.

Then one could take a quick screenshot of their screen and just paste it into the web app.

Try https://sipapp.io/

I use this one! Love it. Does everything I need.

Sip is really nice, but in my experience it doesn't pick the exact color.

I keep contrast (usecontrast.com) open as a picker and accessibility testing tool, but I agree, adding recommendations based on color theory, etc would make it even more usable. It has a few hotkeys that work well and is minimal enough to make the startup list.

You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence. Also why are you bringing money into this? And are you saying you wouldn't pay for this awesome tool as is?

>You just requested a random feature which contradicts the point you made in the previous sentence.

1) Requesting a feature immediately after was intended as a joke.

2) It still doesn't contradict it. The first point merely advices the programmer to "not get overwhelmed by feature requests". Such an advice is not contradictory to making one from a formal logic perspective.

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