$ cat story.md
I'm an indie developer in İzmir, Turkey. I build and ship small apps on the side, mostly solo, mostly at night after the day job.
And every single time I shipped something, I hit the same wall: the App Store and Play Store want polished screenshots — multiple per device size, ideally localized into every language you support. It's the unglamorous last step between "I built a thing" and "people can actually find it."
So I'd go looking for a tool. And every time, the same story: $30 a month for something I'd use twice a year, or a free tier that stamped a watermark across my work, or a feature-bloated editor where I'd lose an hour fighting the UI.
That weekend project became LaunchShots. It does one annoying job — store screenshots — and tries to do it fast, free, and without getting in your way.
I put it online, posted it once on Reddit, and people actually started using it — from all over the world. No marketing budget, no ads, just a tool that happened to solve a real problem.
There's no backend, no account, no upload. Your screenshots are processed entirely on your device and never touch a server. That's not a marketing line — it's how it's built.
Because there's no server cost to cover, I'm not forced into a subscription model. The core tool is free, with no watermark and no signup. That's the whole point.
A lot of what's in the tool — mobile support, landscape orientation, device frames that fit your screenshot — came directly from people who used it and told me what was missing.
$ echo "hello"
Got an idea, a bug, or just want to chat? I read everything.