The first implementation of the
img.pro API is out in the wild, and it’s been a rewarding experience.
One of the main reasons I built
img.pro was a longing for the original CloudApp, where you could drag any image to the Mac Menu Bar and instantly get a short URL to a beautiful web viewer.
That experience was lost when CloudApp turned into a corporate SaaSy product. It felt technical, engineered, and soulless.
I understand the economic pressure to serve more customers and attract corporations, but the original tool left a huge void in my workflow.
Img.pro is being built with that original spirit in mind. My hope is that it never needs to do everything just to appease enterprise overlords who trade soul for profit.
All this to say: the first third-party developer app built on the
img.pro API is exactly that: a Mac Menu Bar app with drag-and-drop capabilities.
Using it transported me right back to that CloudApp experience years ago. For the first time in a long while, I felt part of something bigger, excited about what the developer ecosystem could unlock.