Future & Past

11:46 am - Thu, Dec 23, 2010: 29 notes

Future & Past

If you hadn’t already heard, Skitch has reached 1.0 after 3 years in Beta. Yay!

Familiar Faces

So you may ask — what’s new? Lots!… but not us. Skitch Inc has spun off from plasq LLC, but we four founders are the same friendly guys driving Skitch since day one. And we mean serious business! :) Want to join us?

Building awesome stuff for you

Much has been happening under the hood. We’re über proud of it too…

The all-new skitch.com — organize with Sets, share via Twitter and Facebook, create your own blog style profile and follow other Skitchers… That’s just scratching the surface.
New beefy hardware: Mediatemple’s (ve) servers for reliable service and no-wait images
A streamlined Skitch application with one-stop-shop integrated sharing window

Free & Plus

The Skitch application on your desktop and skitch.com work hand-in-hand for fast everyday sharing & collaboration needs. After much thought, we believe the simplest and most future-proof option is a simple distinction:

Skitch — Always available for free. Most features many will need to share images and ideas

Skitch Plus — USD$19.95 per year which gets you…

Skitch App: Get Image Links auto-copied to your clipboard, Capture full-length web pages, add watermarks, resize with presets or digits
skitch.com: Unlimited sets, Secure SSL encryption, ability to organize more than 300 images from your dashboard, Ad Free… Learn more!

We realize we’ve not got the feature-balance perfect yet and there is plenty more to come which leads to:

Keep Telling Us, We’ll Keep Tweaking

We appreciate your encouragement & feedback. You rock. We listen. We Iterate.

Based on your feedback in the last 6 weeks we’ve tweaked skitch.com’s look, added servers, image page layout, and Adobe Flash requirements (gone!). Skitch.app tweaks are on their way with a 1.0.2 release.

Coming soon…

Business site licenses. Tell your boss to email us! :)
Customizable share options inside the Mac app share window including Facebook posting
Image view stats for Plus customers
skitch.com API. Interested in building on our platform? email us
In-line display of skitch images on twitter.com
Back-end storage changes for faster serving & uploads (To get geeky: Moving from NFS to Amazon S3 for image storage)

Thank You

Your support has given Skitch a bright future. Whether you update to Plus, tell a friend about Skitch, or just say hello on our Facebook, Twitter or Contact page, we thank you!

Love, The Skitch Crew