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http://alvinlai.com/nanotate/

It'll be great if the textarea for commenting grew in height as you typed more.

Recap saves a snapshot of the page and hosts it, to make sure that your saved selection will be available even after the webpage has changed.

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http://screendocs.com/

It lets you capture step-by-step screenshots, formats them nicely with HTML in a public Dropbox folder, where you can share a link in 1 step.

All with intuitive hotkeys.

http://alvinlai.com/nanotate/

While apps like Skitch exist, they've become bloated over time and none of them have the hotkeys that let me be as effective as I can be. Yea, I save time by minimizing the use of the mouse/trackpad, so if you're a hotkey fanatic like me, chances are you'd love Nanotate.

I've made several highly web-service specific Mac screen capture tools (Freshlog for Basecamp, Screendocs etc) over the years but they all lacked the ability to annotate.

Two weekends ago I was inspired to finally learn Quartz 2D, then spent the course of the next week drawing custom controls, authentication with imgur, implementing license key generation and Mac App Store integration.

Over time, I intend use what I've learnt with Nanotate to add annotation capabilities to my other web service-specific screen capture apps.

Today, Nanotate launches on the Mac App Store, 50% off the first week:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/nanotate/id601942194?mt=12

Here are some promo codes:

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If you missed the promo codes, you can download a free trial from:

http://alvinlai.com/nanotate/

Let me know what you think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5286716

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"Winamp… It really whips the llama's ass!"

Otherwise, how is the service going to survive? They have to monetize somehow down the road to pay the bills.

See if you agree with what the creator of Pinboard says: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

I personally run a site called Handpick that helps people curate links and inform in a considerate manner:

http://handpick.me

I have paying subscribers who help me keep the lights on and do not have pressure to monetize my users' data in any way.

The question is: do you care enough how your data is handled to pay for the service?

I made Handpick (http://handpick.me) as a side project and have not taken any outside investment. Hence I have no investor pressure to obtain a critical mass of users in an insane period of time.

See my other comment about charging users money too.

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

While conducting the beta test for my selective link sharing-via-email digests tool, Handpick:

http://handpick.me

I asked my users whether they'd pay to support the app to run for the long haul. They love my app enough to say yes and were delighted that they could actually actively fund the operations and development.

Go on, try asking your users if they'd pay for your product. It's the best validation you can get!

Bundling all the links into a daily or weekly email digest would be less disruptive than sharing via facebook, imo.

Salespeople need marketers to sell products, marketers rely on Facebook and Google to buy targeted advertising slots, who in turn optimize their social networking tools to encourage everyone to share even more, all the time.

Frictionless sharing, as Zuck puts it, because the more you share, the more keywords they can accumulate and sell as ad slots to marketers and sales people.

For the rest of us, we have our work to do and there's only a small window of our day when we're most productive.

Understand that the social web, as we know it, isn't designed in a way optimized for our productivity and happiness. It serves the tripartite of salespeople, marketers and social networking companies.

Sure it's free to use, but if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

I've since weaned myself from Facebook for more than a year with a little tool I made that helps me, my wife, family, friends and colleagues be more selective about what they share in a attention-respectful and considerate pace.

It's called Handpick, which helps you collect links for different groups of people and send a single email digest daily or weekly, totally cutting out pesky notifications in our lives.

http://handpick.me

Let me know what you think.

How did you get people to engage with the site?

Tried looking for inspiration at your Fandalism blog (http://blog.fandalism.com/) but it seems to be password protected now.

Looking forward to learning more from you, pud!