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Pikaso β Screenshot Twitter like a pro
Pikaso is a tool for creating clean and clutter-free shots of tweets. It's perfect for sharing tweets on Instagram.
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Ranjan
This just made my life so much easier.
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Looks cool. I've played with @twimmage, which is a native iOS app, and does something similar. My personal use case would be for stories so I'd love to see vertical orientation.
I'd pay for some method to automatically generate images of set specifications for every tweet/like/reply I make and provide the most frictionless way to get that image to my device photo library to be able to use on Instagram. Perhaps partnering with an app like @unfold_app (if they were able to offer integration). That way, a user could save multiple images at once and integrate other vertical images between images generated by this service to create whatever story/narrative they're looking to create.
@soheilpro π
I think the mobile app is a great step in the right direction but the overarching challenge here, short of being integrated within Instagram (or whatever the distribution channel is), is the friction involved in app switching to create stories which are inherently about eliminating as much friction as possible and producing content on the fly (ignoring influencer/celeb outliers which have production teams). If the use case is profile posts and less stories, the friction is not as big of a challenge.
At JibJab I actually experimented by buildling an app at JibJab Camera - https://www.producthunt.com/post...
This was early in Instagram stories evolution so their tooling and stickers was limited. Even still, the effort to app switch was just too great to gain traction. So it eventually evoled into GifGab - https://www.producthunt.com/post..., which focused on iMessage distrubition channel, where the integration opportunity (extensions) involved less friction for the user.
I'd suggest possibly exploring integrations with alternative distribution channels - perhaps email senders like Substack or Mailchimp and try to get traction that way vs traditional social network (API offer to select launch partner(s) like that first).
If you do a native app, I'd suggest automatting a user's feed inside your app with a quick one tap copy image to clipboard mode that then automaticly deep links user into Instagram (or an app of the user's choosing). It's not widely known but if you deep link into IG with an image on our clipboard you get a one-tap add. Screenshot: https://share.getcloudapp.com/Bl...
@soheilpro A creative approach to automatically get images to a users device would be to setup a Whatsapp bot that would automatically send users images or tweets based on the criteria the user set within your site (my likes/my tweets/etc..). Within Whatsapp, the user could simply make the chat setting automatically save images to device. Boom!
Hey! I created this tool for people who like to share their tweets on Instagram. It's much easier than manually taking screenshots and cropping them. And the generated image looks much more professional.
I did most of the the coding last week at the airport and on the plane while traveling from Bali to Singapore and back π
Happy to hear your feedback and answer your questions.
@soheilpro This is such a useful tool! Thank you for creating it. I look forward to sharing this with the content marketing community.
@soheilpro think of the next steps users are doing with the created image! Add share functionality (e.g. create a new tweet/post with it in different social networks) or hand the picture over to other services like buffer.com (if technically possible).
@soheilpro Definitely Android app as this is neat, but it's so easy to Snip a screenshot on Windows, but mobile and iPad are much harder to do.
@Soheilpro Was about to connect to Twitter and saw all the permission you were requesting and decided against using it.
@whatsnext I only ask for Read access. That's the minimum permission level that you can set for any app on Twitter. The other two are Read/Write and Read/Write/DM.
@soheilpro here's what it said at Twitter, maybe you can change this?
"This application will be able to:
See Tweets from your timeline (including protected Tweets) as well as your Lists and collections.
See your Twitter profile information and account settings.
See accounts you follow, mute, and block.
See your email address."
What is great with an original screenshot is the Helvetica font. Doesn't look like you can get that, right? Probably because it's not a free web font or something.
That makes it a pass for me, I think. Honestly that difficult to screenshot and send to phone.
@martinsanton Thanks for the feedback Martin. I will add support for more fonts and I'm already exploring ways to make it easier to share the generated image on Instagram.
@martinsanton I changed the font to Roboto which matches twitter.com's font on Chrome in macOS.
I like the concept, but not a fan of having to sign into Twitter. Would you/are you considering simply allowing users to paste tweet URLs and generate that way rather than having to sign in?
Iβm sure there are tons of users who would have use for this but donβt want to sign in (or donβt have an account in the first place).
@hiramfromthechi Sign in with Twitter is required to prevent hitting Twitter API rate limits. Per app limits are around 1 request/second which is very low.
I'd love to see this work with LinkedIn posts too. Also as others have said, would be great if the Twitter screenshot included the image/gallery or video thumbnail part as an option.
@david_alexander4 Hi David. The embedded images/videos should work now. What are your use cases for saving LinkedIn posts?
@soheilpro Nice. My use case? The same as with Twitter. Sharing interesting posts.
pretty nice! I would love to also see the images that have been uploaded to the tweet as well. In addition: Add a small text-input-field to the feedback function "Something wrong with the image" so that users can tell you what is wrong. Saves you a lot of time searching for it yourself and maybe users see things differently than you do.
I nmy case: I have an emoji in my twitter name, that is not displayed as an emoji, whereas emojis in the textual section of the tweet are displayed correctly.
addition: add a favicon.ico so that an icon of your tool will be displayed in people bookmarks ;-)
@soheilpro Awesome! Loving the fast pace of development and the open ears for your users! Great job! :-)
Absolutely perfect Twitter curator that helps marketing presentations tremendously. I was searching for a product like this for weeks.
