Hi, I'm a solo-founder, went full-time in April on solving two problems with Orshot(bootstrapped):
1: Help non-designers design beautiful visuals(Canva solves this nicely)
2: Also help same users and teams/agencies to automate their designs and produce visual content at scale(easily), via Rest API/Integrations etc. This is something that Canva doesn't solve, and I'm pretty sure this is the future of designs and templates
Currently Orshot handles images and pdfs easily, you design a template in a Canva-like editor(some more work is needed to make it more useful for non-designers)
For each template you get a Rest API with template ID, which you can use in your backend to generate images/pdfs from your data. There are 10+ integrations and I'm looking to work on more(Hubspot, Shopify etc.)
If you give it a try, I would love your feedback, because I'm only as good as the bounds of my thoughts. Help me cover a bigger space :)
PS: I know Canva has API in enterprise plan, I want to bring it to consumers and small teams
Built this quick extension to create tweet screenshots
Features:
- one-click tweet screenshots for free
- no signup required
- shows original tweet if you screenshot a reply tweet
- shows quoted tweet
- one-click download/copy to clipboard
How to use:
- after installing the extension, you'll start seeing a camera icon on bottom-right of each tweet
- all you need to do is click on that Camera icon() and it'll give you the tweet screenshot right away
being a designer, i share my experiments in UI and design on Twitter and some other sites. to present designs, i used to beautify them in Figma. this was a routine process where i would open Figma, create a gradient background for my design, add shadows, rounded corners etc. and export the image in correct size, so if i’m to share it on Dribbble I would export it in Dribbble size, for Twitter the size is different
this whole process used to take like 20 to 30 minutes easily. so i built an app https://pika.style to do all of that for me quickly
it started as a hobby, open-source and free to use project which i was building in public on my twitter(@thelifeofrishi). in a matter of time i started getting DMs on Twitter for feature requests
i remember a founder of a company wanted to have a certain feature, we discussed that and in the end i asked whether he would be happy paying for that feature, to which he said yes. i added the requested feature in 2 days and got back to him, he instantly purchased annual subscription and started using Pika. that was in February, 2022
fast forward to today, almost an year later, Pika now has 150+ paid users and makes $1,500+ in revenue each month. i’ve turned it from just a screenshot beautifying tool to a tool to design very customisable mockups and images. you can use it to generate images for your website, app, code, tweet etc. and to keep it more accessible, it has a free tier which doesn’t even require registration to use
i’ve also added a plan just for students and teachers so they can use Pika’s paid fearures at a very discounted subscription fee
if you’re a programmer, marketer, designer, no coder or work in the tech industry, i think you’ll definitely find Pika useful :)
Before you write any more lines of code add a picture to your landing page showing what it does.
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.
Hola hackers! I’m Rishi(https://twitter.com/thelifeofrishi) and I’ve been building Pika(https://pika.style), a screenshot beautifier app to quickly generate images for marketing, blog posts, social sharing and more.
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 $90 MRR and have been receiving lots of feature requests
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Just submitted pika.style on HackerNews, if you have ever used this tiny app and found it useful then please help me with upvotes :)"
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Looks great, thanks for offering a free tier as well as making that part open-source. I couldn't find license for the code on GitHub, would suggest to add one.
Also, perhaps add some prefix/suffix/icon like `$` for the pro-features on the app.
it’s https://orshot.com
it’s being used by agencies and teams to automate pdf invoice/reports, instagram/tiktok/pinterest posts etc.
basically design a template, autofill the layers with your data from anywhere and generate visual content for marketing at scale