Week 2 of building Clip in public.
This week: recorded the demo GIF and 5 screenshots (room for improvement).
The flow: screenshot taken, thumbnail lands in the tray, dragged straight into VS Code as a real file. Under 3 seconds. No File Explorer hunt.
Week 2 of building Clip in public.
This week: recorded the demo GIF and 5 screenshots (room for improvement).
The flow: screenshot taken, thumbnail lands in the tray, dragged straight into VS Code as a real file. Under 3 seconds. No File Explorer hunt.
@sophie_launch Ship before you're ready is probably the best advice I've had. Not 'release broken things', but letting go of perfectionist tendencies. The gap between "good enough to show people" and "ready to ship" is often entirely in your head. Every week you wait, you learn nothing real.
@adamlyttleapps Six weeks out from our first launch, and this is exactly why I went build-in-public (all very new to me and a slow burn). The waitlist is small, but every one of them chose to be nudged on day one. A cold launch week scares me more than shipping late.
Clip catches every screenshot in a floating tray. Drag it straight in. Done.
Windows 10/11. Launching 26 August.
https://t.co/OjJbyTnwof
#buildinpublic#indiehackers
Why I'm building Clip.
Every day in my work: take a screenshot or download, then hunt for it. Where did Windows put it - the Screenshots folder? Clipboard? Did it even save?
Then in File Explorer, find it, drag it where you need it.
30 seconds of friction, 20+ times a day.
@StevBuilds Clip... You take a screenshot and spend 10+ seconds hunting it down. Clip's the fix: a floating tray catches every snip and gives a draggable file - drag it where you need it (VS Code, email, browser, etc. It also monitors your Downloads folder; files appear in the tray.
New this week: you can now play with Clip without installing anything.
There's a live simulation on the site - snip a chart, watch it land in the tray, drag it into an email. It behaves exactly like the real app on your desktop.
@IamMLeclercq Building Clip - a Windows tray tool that catches every screenshot + download in a floating strip, so you drag it straight into any app in 3s. No File Explorer hunt. Launching 26 Aug, live demo here: https://t.co/7B5i9ZVBcX (and nice one on that first Stripe ping earlier 👊)
@AniketMishra00 Nice - a tool that does one job properly (catch a leaked key before it's committed) is exactly the kind I rate. I'm building a small Windows utility myself, same philosophy. Curious how you landed on a 7-day trial, as I'm weighing the same for my own launch.
@iamagrimai The moment the client actually lights up is the best part - nice one. Finishing strong is a different muscle to starting; the people who nail that last 10% are the ones who get rehired. Go get it 💪
@todearaujo Love this: Clip, a Windows tray tool that catches every screenshot + download in a floating tray, so you can drag it into any app. Closed source, but I'm sharing the build (the why-a-floating-strip, the OS-level drag). Live demo: https://t.co/7B5i9ZVBcX. What are you working on?
1⃣ Week 1 of building Clip in public.
Clip is a Windows 10/11 tray utility that catches every screenshot and download in a floating strip. Drag it into any app in under 3 seconds. No File Explorer hunt.
One-time purchase, no subscription.