I built an AI screenshot tool for developers because explaining bugs is harder than fixing them

Hi Product Hunt community, Taking a big leap today 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!