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ngenark | 3 years ago

Thanks! Open Graph tags are a great idea. I'm going to add them and push an update soon :) Like you said, this is an improvement over just dropping snapshots into slack, since you keep a lot more information with it (the original link and any conversation on that screenshot).

Initial use case: I think it's really useful if you're developing a website and want to screenshot bugs or feature requests, draw what it should do instead, and add comments (and dismiss when fixed!). I used MarqLink extensively for this while developing MarqLink.

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jeremyis|3 years ago

Interesting. Do you know if anything like this has been built internally at tech cos?

ngenark|3 years ago

The inspiration was actually a tool called SnipIt that we used extensively at Alphabet. I really wanted that same tool outside the company, but with additional features (organization and comments) that SnipIt never had.

We used SnipIt all day long -- especially for screenshotting graphs, capturing bugs, and building presentations.

Of course, the weird thing is that inside Alphabet, everything was public across the company by default. This obviously doesn't work in a public product, so I'm curious to see if some kind of "default group sharing" setting ends up being needed, since everything is private by default now.