Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web (opens in new tab)

Woah. Snaggy dev here; didn't think I'd see this on HN yet. I made Snaggy myself a year ago as a side project - it was my first experience with web development. After a year of feedback, I was in the middle of giving it a big revamp, improving the UX, handling other browsers/OS better, user accounts, deletion options, etc. I was going to post it here once I had all that fixed up! But here we are.

Please give me your feedback! I had zero experience with webdev when I made this, but now I feel much more confident. Snaggy uses S3 and Cloudfront, and deletions are permanent, if that's a concern. Also, I use the user-agent for browser detection, which I realize now is not very reliable. I need better browser/OS support and I'd like to improve the editor.

    Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to read your clipboard.

Haha, nope.

I am clearly too paranoid. I was looking at my screen thinking what sort of information leakage there would be uploading a screenshot and then 'trimming' it to remove the stuff that I didn't want out there. And then thinking the upload sends the whole image, then the tools crop it and you get a 'final' version. But the original? Still there somewhere. Not that this is an original thought mind you, XKCD famously parodied the problem of creating a web site requiring email and an password and noting that lots of people use the same password everywhere so you could harvest passwords that way.

This used to only be supported by uploadscreenshot.com, then more and more sites started to support it and now that imgur.com supports it I've never needed anywhere else.

>You can upload an image file just by copying it from your file browser and pasting it to snaggy. Multiple file upload is coming soon!

This is what I'm getting when I try that: http://i.imgur.com/l8YKs.png

Neat idea! But I get this message when trying to paste:

"It looks like you are using Firefox 17.0. Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to operate unless you are running Firefox version 4 or higher. Consider updating Firefox."

I have FF 17, with no JAVA.

Here's screenshot sharing for the paranoid (macosx):

https://github.com/RoboTeddy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/screen...

It uploads to your own s3 bucket (https for both uploads and downloads). I set up a global hotkey (cmd-4) using Alfred.

Is there a freeware or commercial WYSIWYG editor that supports pasting of images like this awesome tool?

I have a use-case where users are creating charts in Excel and want to paste them into a HTML textarea and WYSIWYG editor that supported paste of images from the clipboard would be awesome. Thanks

This is fantastic. I had no idea you could even do that (read from clip board). This really is fantastic.

Better than Droplr and the rest with the annotation features, but just needs some minor UX work - cropping is confusing for instance. And just needs to be a tad faster :)

Other than that, all of my designer friends will love it!

This is fantastic - just wish I could also resize the image to a specific size. All the time I get images that need to be cropped to 32x32 or something similar. Build that in and I will be using it everyday :)

This is good. I wish it had an easier way to get to the direct image link (Right now I have to click the link then right-click the image and then copy image URL).

Imgur also can upload from clipboard and/or drag/drop.

http://pasteboard.co/ seems to have a better UI than this but it lacks the editor. Good Job!

GrabBox + Dropbox works good for me.

Just command+shift+4 and it transfers it to my public folder with a link in my clipboard.

The developers clearly don't have Macs.

GMail on Chrome had/s this feature!

Very cool, seems pretty useful. Worked great for me but I only spent a few minutes on it.

I've been looking for a service like this for quite some time. Very cool!

It's brilliant if you want to quickly show someone a screenshot.

Not a big fan of Java applets, but besides that, good job!

Very nice. Any plans to use Web Intents?

So simple it's genius. Great idea.

How did this make the front page?