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Marc Chouinard

Snappa - Create online graphics in a snap

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Snappa helps you whip up graphics for social media, ads, blogs and more without Photoshop or graphic designers.

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Joakim Isoaho
What are the prime diffrentiator's in regards to Guy's Canva?
Rick Kats
@jommi or picmonkey ;)
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@jommi Hi Joakim. Great question! I just shared a message about our inspiration for creating Snappa and how we see ourselves differentiating from other tools in the market. Mainly: 1) Ease of use & UI 2) Social integrations 3) All-inclusive pricing Snappa is still very much in its infancy so we have lots of ideas for future development that will continue to set us apart from other tools.
Sam Rizzi
@jommi good stuff! And good luck! One feedback, one mobile remove the design graphic now button or adjust the popup form as its going out of screen on iPhone 5s
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@rizzisam Thanks for the heads up.
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
Hi everyone. I'm one of the co-founders of Snappa. Thanks for checking us out! Our goal is to make the easiest graphic design tool you'll ever use. When we looked at what was currently available, we found that most tools fell in two camps. They were either really easy but overly simplified, or had tons of features but were difficult to use. With Snappa, we wanted to make it incredibly easy yet allow you to create highly engaging images. In addition, we wanted to integrate directly with social media networks to allow for direct posting and a super efficient workflow. We're also going to be adding other integrations in the future like a WordPress plugin. Finally, we wanted to introduce an all-inclusive pricing model with thousands of built-in visual assets and no additional charges.
Carol Skelly
@cgimmer Congrats Christopher. Snappa is an awesome tool.
Josh Garofalo
Looks like a really solid addition to the DIY design market with super simple pricing to boot. Limited use for free... or all the bells and whistles for a measly $10/month. It's always refreshing to see a SaaS company that doesn't get in their own way with a ludicrous pricing table. :) Good luck!
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@swaycopy Thanks for the kind words Josh.
Simon
Ive used this and Pablo by Buffer. Both are good, but I really preferred Snappa as it provides a better range of starting sizes for images for more than just social networks. Having worked with Chris before, I can also say you'll be in good hands with Snappa. Looking forward to seeing the other integrations as this will really help distinguish Snappa as the tool of choice. Great work guys, keep it up!
Ryan Mac
Love this. Though, I think the Holy Grail in templated social media and ad design is to export to the multitude of social and ad sizes. Have you scaled your templates to allow for this? This is the biggest problem I hear about from social and design teams.
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@ryanmac We have in-house designers who are continuously adding new pre-designed templates to the platform. As we continue to grow, we will continue investing in more templates because it's definitely one of the biggest selling points and what our users love the most. We're currently working on an image resizing feature which will also enable us to speed up the amount of templates being created.
Ryan Mac
@cgimmer yes! Modify one social template and export to all social media image sizes = killer social design app.
Takeshi Young
@cgimmer @ryanmac +1! Being able to use the same design across multiple channels is a must!
Daylen Sawchuk
It looks nice, but Canva includes many additional features in their free plan.
Alfonso C. Betancort
@askdaylen I must agree, almost everything is free but the stock photos... Indirect revenue stream. The excuse are the photos the quality of tool is the lock in.
Obaid Rahimi
@askdaylen besides I have no problem spending $1 at once. I might not create 40 pieces at all. Canva is working extremely well for us so far.
Vincent Ferrari
@askdaylen I agree. If you use your own assets, Canva is a much better deal. If you're doing a LOT of graphics and using a lot of third party assets, Snappa is probably, financially, a better move, but I'm with you.
danielgold1
Snappa is an awesome tool. I use it all the time. Great support too. Happy to see it hit number one. upvote now!
Matt Helbig
@cgimmer I think video producers/editors will love this tool to create assets quickly, easily and on a budget. Especially given the market for "buzzfeed" videos.
Justin Wu
This is awesome - time to step up my IG & FB graphics.
Thiago Pojda
Awesome tool! It'd be great if you included a 20% text verification for facebook posts (for ads) ;) keep up! That and "undo"!
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@pojda Hey Thiago. We actually have this built-in. Just click the grid button on the toolbar and it will overlay the Facebook grid. If your text takes up 5 squares or less you're good.
Thiago Pojda
@cgimmer now that you mentioned it makes total sense! Perhaps you should add that info somewhere, as more people might need that too :)
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@pojda We have it in our knowledge base but that's probably not enough. I'll have to think about this one!
Raul Tiru
Hi Christopher, Glad to see you here on ProductHunt. I've used Snappa several times and loved it. It's very intuitive and easy to work with. I do think you're going to have a tough time competing with Canva if you don't make it clear for people what the difference between you two is. I've used Snappa and Canva and can't really notice the big USP in using Snappa.
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@raultiru Thanks Raul. I think with every market there will always be more than 1 competitor and I think it's important to give customers different product choices. I feel we're bringing a tool that's extremely easy to use with a clean UI and many of our users/customers prefer that. That being said, I'm sure other people will still prefer Canva and we're totally cool with that. Also keep in mind that we're still a new product with lots of room to grow so as we progress I think it will become more and more clear how we're different. We have some really cool stuff in the works.
Raul Tiru
@cgimmer I have no doubt that It's going to be awesome! I've been using Snappa en Canva for months. In my opinion, 100 people giving compliments won't help as much as giving honest feedback. I can't wait to see how you're going to make this a great success. Not sure if you remember, but I gave you some great props here: http://www.raultiru.com/free-sto... ;) I'm glad to see that Snappa is trending on Product Hunt.
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@raultiru Hey Raul I totally appreciate and value your feedback. And yes I do remember the post :) We hope to keep improving the product and continue to offer more value.
Colin Vincent
@codingdog This is awesome. I would love to interview you for our Top Makers podcast. You can reach me at colin@equitydirectory.com
Linas Leo
I was looking for simple and easy tool to create display ads online. I don't want to learn clumpy photoshop or hire a designer for every little changes I want to make. There are free tools like PhotoScape, but I need to design the ad from scratch if I close the application. Then I found Snappa! Happy user since then! I already mentioned it to them, but "Undo" and "Group Objects" should be the first new features for the app. Apart from that - very easy to create new ad or modify the existing ad in minutes... All PPC managers should be using this! :)
Kaustuva Mukherjee
This is interesting! I have used both picmonkey and Canva will definitely try this out to see how it works. Does it allow uploading you own images?
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@kausmukherjee Hey Kaustuva. Yes you can import your own images into Snappa :)
Marco Tundo
Great stuff Chris!
Bob
Any chance Hunters can get a free trial?
Christopher Gimmer
Maker
@ninjinka Hey Thomas. We have a forever free plan that you can use to test out the app but if you want to trial the paid plan email me at christopher@snappa.io and I'll give you a special trial.
Bharath Patel
Hey, I was thinking about this concept. If there anything like this. Registered and started creating Marketing material for my Mac Apps. As, I am marketing guy. Tool something like this will same time, not to wait for graphics designer to get the design ready for my campaigns. Lots of LOVE and all the best for the future.
Bill Lewis
Big stepup from Pablo well done This is another great addition we've seen from makers this year to bring really substantial tools to non dev people to use. It's allowing people to build more robust MVP's cheaper and to run more effective media campaigns also.
Walt Spence
Been using snappa for a while now. Love it
Emil Shour
I'm a big fan of Snappa! Been using it for a couple of months now and it's awesome.
Dave Rasmussen
I've used Snappa for a couple of months now and I find myself using it more and more all the time. I can tinker in Illustrator and Photoshop, but really have no idea what I'm doing in there and get overwhelmed pretty quickly. Snappa is clear, simple, and I feel confident when I use it that I'm actually using it right. Snappa has everything a non-design guy like me needs to easily and confidently make a great graphic in just a few minutes! Keep up the great work!