SuperBased

💬 Maker's Comment

Hi Everyone, Took a big leap in launching SuperBased, a screenshotting app to make sharing of screenshots with AI easier. I've been building SuperBased for the past many weeks after dealing with this issue since Nov/Dec 2022 (popularization of Chatgpt) and just shipped the product & the product video, so figured I'd share here. The problem I was solving for myself: Every day I'd spot a bug, take a screenshot, crop it, paste it into AI Chat or IDE, do these steps 3-4 times, and then write three paragraphs explaining what was wrong because the screenshot alone didn't tell the story. I was spending more time screenshotting and explaining bugs than fixing them and I wanted to make it a lot easier. What SuperBased does: It's a desktop screenshot tool (Windows & macOS) with AI features built specifically for developer workflows: Multi-capture — select multiple screen regions, merge them side-by-side, copy or drag into any app Auto-capture — records a screenshot on every click, scroll, and focus change automatically AI analysis — ask questions about your screenshots, extract code, generate fixes Voice dictation — hold a shortcut and speak into any app, developer-aware (says "arrow" → gets =>) Token Compression Engine — renders text as optimized images for LLMs, 83% fewer tokens Screenshot notes — attach voice/text notes that embed into the image MCP integration — AI agents can use SuperBased programmatically The Token Compression feature is the one I'm most proud of. If you paste terminal output or code into ChatGPT/Claude, it costs thousands of tokens as text. SuperBased converts it to an optimized image — same content, 33-83% fewer tokens. Free to download at superbased.app. Happy to answer questions or take feedback!