TinyGrab

TinyGrab was a screenshot sharing tool for Windows, Mac and iOS. The tool allowed the user to take a screenshot and automatically uploaded it to their servers, with the URL passed directly to the user's clipboard allowing them to paste the link in an email, blog post, on Twitter, or an instant messaging application. The service was tiered with free accounts limited to ten "grabs" a day and paid accounts giving unlimited grabs and the ability to use FTP to upload to custom servers.[1]

TinyGrab
Original author(s)Chris Leydon
Developer(s)Keyone Productions
Initial releaseApril 2009
Stable release
2.04 / July 27, 2011
TypeImage hosting service
Websitetinygrab.com

History

TinyGrab was envisioned in April 2009 by former British student Chris Leydon, whilst at Staffordshire University in the United Kingdom.[2] The first version of TinyGrab was limited to run only on the Mac OS X operating system. Soon after, TinyGrab expanded upon this by releasing an application that allowed users of Microsoft Windows to use the service. TinyGrab for iPhone was released on 26 May 2010 and is now available in the iTunes app store.[3]

TinyGrab was one of the original applications featured in the MacHeist nanoBundle in November 2009 and offered as a free download for a limited time. The inclusion in the nanoBundle is speculated to be the primary reason for TinyGrab's mass uptake in users in a short period of time.

In March 2010, TinyGrab was profiled in Macworld Magazine.[4]

In May 2010, TinyGrab appealed to its users for help with funding the project in order to keep it alive.[5]

In 2011, TinyGrab's servers were hacked. This compromised the products code base and led to speculation about the developer's financial future.[6][7]

In July 2011, TinyGrab announced they had been purchased by US developers Company 52, and claimed that the product was now secure.[8]

Date Event
June 2009 Mac version goes into public beta testing
July 2009 Mac version launches
September 2009 iPhone version is announced
October 2009 Windows version launches
April 2010 TinyGrab 2.0 is announced
May 2010 iPhone version launches
September 2010 TinyGrab 2.0 beta announced
April 2011 TinyGrab gets hacked and is forced to prematurely launch TinyGrab 2.0
July 2011 Chris Leydon sells TinyGrab to Company 52.
December 2011 TinyGrab launches a redesigned grab page
July 2016 TinyGrab website went offline and stops all services without any messages to buyers.
gollark: Ah.
gollark: Is there not some extremely small one you can use?
gollark: Run a CGI server of some kind?
gollark: Eßentially, finding *any match* is easy via bitsets, but finding the *best* match requires actually looking at each document to find the term frequency (and maybe term positions), which sounds slow.
gollark: Hmm. I'm not actually sure how to fastly™ do ranking of search results for this.

References
  • Xavier Lur. "TinyGrab: A Simple But Impressive Screenshot Sharing App for Macs". TechXav.com.
  • Simon Mackie. "TinyGrab Makes Sharing Screenshots Simple".
  • "TinyGrab CrunchBase Profile".

Footnotes
  1. Jason Fitzpatrick. "TinyGrab Captures And Shares Your Screen".
  2. Chris Leydon. "A Tiny Application, A Big Audience To Grab".
  3. http://tinygrab.com/iphone
  4. Karl Hodge. "TinyGrab review - Digital Lifestyle - Macworld UK".
  5. "TinyGrab Appeal".
  6. "A Developers Worst Nightmare (The @TinyGrab Story)". cocoaCoding, 3 April 2011
  7. Chris Leydon. "TinyGrab".
  8. "TinyGrab has new owners, and is now stable!". Tinygrab Blog, July 27th, 2011
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