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Sébastien Robaszkiewicz

SnackThis Text Animator - A simple text animation tool that runs in your browser.

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SnackThis lets you create animated text messages in 3 simple steps:
✍️ 1. Write your message
✨ 2. Select an animation
🎨 3. Customize the font and colors
Export it as a GIF or video, and share it with the world!

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Robin Choy
Wow, congrats guy! I've been playing with it a lot - I'd love to subscribe (especially as $2/month is nothing), but I wanted to see some exports before. Any chance you might give at least 2-3 free exports, even low-res? Also, I see many applications but did you ?makers had any precise use case in mind when you built this?
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@robin_choy Good call Robin, we should give the user a way to preview what results to expect, thanks for the suggestion! As for the use cases, also we observed very small businesses & prosumers around us, and we noticed how hard it is for them to create high-quality content for their website, social media accounts, presentations or other communication support: they often don't have the skills or the time, and can't afford to hire professionals for this. So we'd like to empower them with a tool that lets them create high-quality content in a fraction of the cost or the time it would usually take!
Robin Choy
@robi I get that - definitely my use case: sharing gifs on social media in a snap, creating beautiful animations for video content. Seems like you guys nailed it! Will go for the subscription this time but you should definitely consider a free preview :) Thanks for taking the time to reply!
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@robin_choy Thanks so much for your support Robin! I think you're right, we should add a 3-day free trial so that people can try out the tool and see if they really want to use it on a regular basis. Thanks for the idea!
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
Hello Product Hunters! 😊 @etienn and I launched the Notion → Presentations project a few weeks ago (SnackThis v1), and the feedback has been amazing, thank you so much 😃🙏 We had a lot of conversations about the animations with our users, and many requests for more effects. So, we decided to experiment with a dedicated tool, that lets you make great-looking text animations in no time. We'd love to hear what you think and what you'd like to use it for: we thought about the presentations, social media posts, website embeds, or a motion design tool… and we're willing to go beyond text (pictures, charts, videos…), but we're sure you guys have some use cases we couldn't even think about. We're really excited to make great design more accessible to everyone, and super humbled we can shape this future with the community. Thanks again for your help, we can't wait to hear your feedback and discuss with you!
Nicolas Steegmann
Impressively simple to use. Makes very nice animations, customizable. Everything happens in your browser including the video export.
Redon Gjika
Awesome job on this. Tested it for a few social media accounts and the wow effect is definitely here. So much time saved! Thanks.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@redongjika Thanks Redon! Glad it can make your life easier :)
Shavin Peiries
Love this! Include a back button maybe?
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@shavin47 Yes that's right, that'd bring us even closer to the look and feel of an app! Thanks for the suggestion :)
Mathieu Boulet
Animated types are moving so well! Love what you guys are building 🙌
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@mthblt 🙌 Mathieu! We've some great designers whom we can learn from around us… ;-) Thanks for what we've learnt from working with you!
Minjie Shi
This is awesome! Probably won't be paying for it now, but I think the chance of me using it for future projects is going to be high! It would be great to have maybe 10 free downloads before paying though.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@minjie_shi Thanks a lot Minjie! What kind of projects would you like to realize with the help of this tool? We'd love to know so we can bake the right features :)
Minjie Shi
@robi You are welcome! The projects I have in mind will be for website design where the clients would like to have some keyword highlighted through the use of animation like this. I can't think of any specific other features to be added yet, but you guys are on the right track in my opinion. Keep up with the good work!
Joris Renaud (🌋 magma.app)
Great work @robi @etienn . Love your way to take feedback from the community instead of doing a marketing push 😃. Maybe you should integrate a time on animation based on the characters and/or words number. I tried a long text and it seems to me animation comes too quickly and we can't read the text. Hope it helps. Good work!
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@jorisrenaud Thanks Joris! Good call for the timing functions – most effects have this feature built-in already, but I think we forgot to update a few of them. We definitely need to start making more systematic tests, ha ha 😃
Shehbaz
WHOA! Awesome tool 👍
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@batmanc Thank you so much Shehbaz! Can't wait to see what you create 😛
Valentin Huang
Great product! We use Snackthis to product animated and catchy content for our social networks and we love it. It's easy to use and gives you superpowers in no time.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@vhuang Thanks so much for your encouraging feedback Valentin! Glad you find it useful 😃
Juan Sarmiento
Satisfactorily straightforward & easy to use. You'll save me some time with this @robi thanks for creating :)
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@juanpablosarmi Thanks so much for your feedback Juan! We hope we can empower more and more people to create great designs in a snap of a finger :)
Felipe Otálora
Tried it, works great and the animations are really cool. What use cases have you guys seen has more usage for these animated messages? Good job!!
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@felipe_otalora Hi Felipe, thanks for your message! For now there are many uses on social media (apparently these designs are great to catch people's attention), but we intend to add more templates and "masters" : titles, charts, device mockups to showcase an app… so that you can create a great-looking short video in just a few taps. Would love to hear your ideas and use cases!
Felipe Otálora
@robi Oh yes. I can see how it's great for short videos or gifs for social media as it's flashy and works as a great eye catcher. Maybe it's also useful for personalized welcoming messages. Like you could greet someone inside a landing site with those cool messages to wow their attention. Maybe a silly idea haha. Anyway great stuff!
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@felipe_otalora Not silly at all, this is actually a use case users have been talking about! We'd love to create a platform to help people design great things, wherever they want to use them: social media, presentations, websites, videos… Thanks for your feedback!!
Michael Andreuzza
I love it mate. I am definitely going to use it. For my product, https://www.colorsandfonts.com Bravo I take my hat off. I could even link to you.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@michael_andreuzza Thanks Michael, and I love your resources as well: font pairings and color palette do a huge amount of work in the quality of a design. Will definitely take a closer look!
samuraicode
Love it, but how do I access my subscription from a different computer ?
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@samuraicode We'll add the login button very soon, and in the meantime you can contact us on the Intercom: we'll send you a link via email to login 🙏
Visnja Zeljeznjak
?makers great product! I subscribed. Questions / wishlist: Do you plan to add some sort of a watermark, so that I can put my logo on the videos? Any chance of creating my own color palette, so that my videos are on-brand?
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@luckyisgood Hi Visnja, thanks a lot for your message! Yes we're planning to add the custom color palettes and fonts in the next few days, and we'll keep adding more “templates” including ones that can contain your logo – stay tuned! :)
Visnja Zeljeznjak
@robi Great! How and where do you prefer to receive customer input? I have more ideas for new features :)
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@luckyisgood In the chat window (Intercom) on the website, that'd be great! Can't wait to hear your feedback and ideas :)
Mato Xoshnaw
i love itt
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@mato_xoshnaw Thanks Mato! What are the things you like most, and what's something you'd love to do but can't yet with this current version?
Sydney Cohen
Love what the team is building !
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@chnsydney Thanks Syndey! We try to be inspired by your crazy fast-shipping skills, and it feels so much better to put our product in the hands of users as soon as possible! Thanks for showing the way :)
Ariel Tabaks
Sebastien well done, so simple. Will try out. We also launched on Product Hunt toaday :)
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@ariel_tabaks Thanks Ariel, and congratulations on your launch! I love how we could use such a technology to detect what people are saying, and maybe adapt the UIs depending on the mood.
Ariel Tabaks
@robi that's interesting :) Like you walk into a store and see if the person is treating you well the UI interface shows a more alive and positive animation. By the way are you thinking of using other formats for export too, like MP4? and also different resolutions?
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@ariel_tabaks Yes you can already choose to export as a GIF or as a video (mp4), and yes, we'll add more sizes (landscape, story, or custom) very soon. Thanks for your feedback!
Mark Burstiner
Oh my gosh this is even better than the last best thing I'd seen in months.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@mark_burstiner Thanks so much for your positive feedback Mark, really appreciate it! :)
Dardan Thaçi
I needed something likes! I will pay if you add designs.
Sébastien Robaszkiewicz
Maker
@dardan_thaci Awesome! Stay tuned, then :)