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Peacetoeson Show HN: A zero-telemetry clipboard, color picker, and capture suite

Thank you, that's nice to hear! Your video button feedback is noted, I'll give that some thought! I've already added the README and LICENSE files to my repos, I appreciate you bringing that to my attention.

Peacetoeson Show HN: A zero-telemetry clipboard, color picker, and capture suite

Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into my repos, I'm still incredibly new to the open-source and GitHub workflow, so I completely missed adding those files. There are video demos inside the details modal of each app product card on my website, if you'd like to take a look.

Peacetoeson Ask HN: What dev tools do you rely on that nobody talks about?

This resonates. I actually ended up building a tool last year (CapSize) because I needed to churn out screenshots at a specific frame size for my day job and couldn't find anything that would just "lock" to 800x600 without a fight.

I'm not a dev by trade, so I did use AI as a power-tool to wrestle with the C++ and Electron parts. It turned into a bit of a rabbit hole—I ended up obsessed with keeping it entirely local/offline (no cloud APIs or telemetry) just to see if I could do things like local OCR in RAM. I ended up building two more tools to help me with making the one tool so it kind of spiraled into a small suite, but the main goal was just a no-frills utility that didn't require a login or a subscription just to crop an image.