Pika is a result of me spending too much time in designing screenshots in Figma, choosing the gradients, shadows, backgrounds etc. I thought I could quicken this process through a simple app.
With Pika, you can:
- add background gradient/images to your screenshot
- add browser frame/wrapper
- add rounded corners
- add overlay text
- add custom watermark
- control padding
How is Pika fast:
Whenever you change the settings, Pika saves those settings locally on your device. So when you come back again, Pika already has your last set of preferred settings and you won’t need to tweak much. On top of that, Pika has shortcuts: Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste image to canvas, Ctrl/Cmd+S to save output image and Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy output image. With these shortcuts and pre-saved settings, you can literally generate a beautiful screenshot in just 4 keystrokes.
Pika is absolutely free to use and requires no signup. There’s a Pro plan for those who want to customise screenshots even more. Pika is also an open-source app, code can be found here(https://github.com/rishimohan/pika).
Some stats:
- Pika has generated over 15000 screenshots in last month
- Pika already has $90 MRR and have been receiving lots of feature requests
- On Github, Pika has over 200 stars and 40 forks
Let me know what you think of Pika :)
" Just submitted pika.style on HackerNews, if you have ever used this tiny app and found it useful then please help me with upvotes :)"
Guidelines: Don't solicit upvotes, comments, or submissions. Users should vote and comment when they run across something they personally find interesting—not for promotion.
Also, perhaps add some prefix/suffix/icon like `$` for the pro-features on the app.
Its not really obvious to me what a "screenshot beautifier" _does_. It would be useful to have a (visual?) description of what it does without having to first drop a screenshot into it. I didn't have any screenshots to hand so fairly quickly clicked away.
Pasting an image using Ctrl-V doesn't work for me (Win 10, Firefox 97.0.1)
No one who isn't a personal friend of yours is going to burn time trying an image editing product without first seeing an example of what comes out of it.
Anyone who visits your site is already busy and has a million other things to do and sites to visit. If you the deeply passionate creator of the app can't be bothered to take the time to show what your own product does, your visitors are not going to burn their own time trying to figure it out.
Also, link from the app to the git repo, not just the other direction.
