Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.

5 points by JohnTitus 14 years ago | 6 comments

Hi all, My side project, an online image watermarking app, is ready to start showing people, so I'd appreciate your feedback.<p>http://www.watermarquee.com<p>The free version is entirely client-side javascript. If there is a good response, I plan to develop the backend to support larger images and additional file types, as well as some other functionality. Since the free version is completely client-side, I can easily host if on Heroku's Varnish cache, which makes this an easy/cheap MVP to try out. Please let me know what you think.

jph 14 years ago |

Great idea!

My two cents: make the homepage much easier. An example could be a big button that says "click here to watermark your own image for free". Another example could be less text - your goal is to have a user try it, so you don't need to explain so much.

salman89 14 years ago |

Who is your target customer here? I would assume that most digital photographers already know how to watermark their images. Maybe you should target to more the mom/pop/kids variety?

Looks good otherwise :)

andrewhillman 14 years ago |

I like it, but change the name. marquee is not something that is easy to spell or remember. How about markyourimg.com?

JohnTitus 14 years ago |

http://www.watermarquee.com

bmelton 14 years ago |

The idea looks good, as does the website, but on Chromium on Ubuntu 11.10, I get the following on the homepage, which I assume isn't correct (notice the scrollbars):

http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/4247/selection002dq.png

JohnTitus 14 years ago | |

Thanks, I'll take a look at that. The same thing was happening on Chrome in Windows for awhile, but I thought I had fixed it :(