Lens
Light and fast image converter for macOS
Lens launch results so far:
- 3800 visits
- 2000 downloads (up to 90% download rate from desktop visits)
- 367 upvotes
- 47 RTs
- #6 product of the day on Product Hunt. Lost the #5 badge at the last moment 🥲
- Zero revenue, since the app is free.
Went way better than I expected for such a little app. So, moving on for the next crazy idea.
Meet Lens, a simple image converter for macOS. It's a fun project I built in less than a day.
It's my second launch on Product Hunt, and it's going better than the first one and way better than I've ever imagined.
The other week I noticed a tweet from Adam Wathan that complained about the lack of simple image converters. It might sound ridiculous, but there’s no app for macOS that does that one single action. I mean, there are lots of bulky tools that could convert, resize, optimize, and even apply filters to the images, but I’m talking about a simple, lightweight thing.
So, let’s build it. How to make a desktop app that uses some complex algorithms you have no clue about? Take a ready-to-use solution, an existing tool … an existing app!
There’s plenty of CLI tools developers are obsessed with. While some of them are really supercharged and feature-rich, many also cannot boast their simplicity.
That's how and why I built Lens. Read more in my blog: https://lepikhin.com/posts/3-ideas-out-of-nothing
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