Here's a hotkey-focused screenshot+annotation Mac app I made that uploads to imgur:

http://alvinlai.com/nanotate/

Nice work!

It'll be great if the textarea for commenting grew in height as you typed more.

Here's a game that looks EXACTLY like yours, but for Japanese kana: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/japanese-frenzy/pp...

Yep, it works for all sites.

Recap saves a snapshot of the page and hosts it, to make sure that your saved selection will be available even after the webpage has changed.

Check out my other app Screendocs!

http://screendocs.com/

It lets you capture step-by-step screenshots, formats them nicely with HTML in a public Dropbox folder, where you can share a link in 1 step.

Sweet! I can now non-metaphorically dare someone to build a better Mousetrap.

When I first saw the logo, I heard:

"Winamp… It really whips the llama's ass!"

Stripe's suspiciously missing from this list. I think there should be at least one YC company using Stripe at least?

In my opinion, to be truly confident that your data will be forever exclusive to yourself and people you choose is to pay for the service, to keep it running in the long run.

Otherwise, how is the service going to survive? They have to monetize somehow down the road to pay the bills.

See if you agree with what the creator of Pinboard says: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

I personally run a site called Handpick that helps people curate links and inform in a considerate manner:

http://handpick.me

I have paying subscribers who help me keep the lights on and do not have pressure to monetize my users' data in any way.

The question is: do you care enough how your data is handled to pay for the service?

Would you feel more confident that the app is going to be around in the long haul if they charged you money for using it?

See my other comment about charging users money too.

Charging money just by itself isn't enough to boost my confidence, charging money and reaching a publicly obvious critical mass of users combined would help but then you've still got a chicken and egg problem in creating that critical mass.

Good point. I think it helps to learn more about the people behind the app and their motivations.

I made Handpick (http://handpick.me) as a side project and have not taken any outside investment. Hence I have no investor pressure to obtain a critical mass of users in an insane period of time.