👋 Hello Dev Community – I’m Building Snippai, an AI-Powered Screenshot Agent

Hi everyone! I’m Tom, a software engineer with a focus on AI and productivity tools. This is my first post on Dev.to, and I’m super excited to join such a vibrant community of makers and developers.

🚀 What I'm Building

Right now, I’m building Snippai, an AI-powered screenshot assistant designed to help you get more out of the images on your screen. It can:

• 🧠 Understand text, formulas, tables, and code in screenshots

• 📄 Convert content into LaTeX, Markdown, or structured formats

• 🔍 Extract and summarize important information from visual content

• ⚡ All in one click — no prompts, no extra work

Snippai is designed for students, developers, researchers, and professionals who often work with visual data and want a smarter way to reuse or understand it.

💡 Why I Built It

As someone who deals with code, technical diagrams, and research papers daily, I found myself constantly taking screenshots and manually retyping or copying content. That felt like a waste of time — so I decided to build something better.

🛠️ Tech Stack

Frontend: Electron + React + Typescript

🫱 Let’s Connect

This is just the beginning. I'm currently iterating fast, and would love feedback, suggestions, or just to connect with like-minded builders. Feel free to say hi in the comments — and if you’ve built something similar or are working in this space, I’d love to check it out!

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to contributing more here on Dev.to 🙌

One more thing...

The project is open-source on Github: Snippai Feel free to check it out and give a star if you like it!

Comments

[Nevo David]

this looks super useful, i’ve always wanted something that gets past the copy-paste grind. you think most folks stick with these kinds of tools after the hype dies down, or does it all depend on how well they fit into daily habits?

[Nathan Tarbert]

pretty cool tbh, can’t tell you how many times i’ve wasted time copying from screenshots - you think making it open source will help it get used long-term or does most stuff just fade out after the first hype?

[Dotallio]

I love the one-click, prompt-free workflow - feels like a big win for anyone drowning in screenshots. What's been the trickiest part to get right: code blocks, formulas, or diagrams?