own project // 2026
PixelPinch
The download page for my free screenshot tool, built around a retro computer that eats screenshots.
- Client
- My own app
- Year
- 2026
- What I built
- Download page with an animated hero scene, a pixel cursor, and a token math explainer
- Platform
- Static HTML, CSS and JavaScript on Vercel
- Live site
- mitmllc.com/pixelpinch
PixelPinch is my free macOS tool that shrinks screenshots so they cost fewer tokens when you paste them into an AI chat. I gave its page a look of its own, a CRT terminal in deep navy and mint green with scanlines, separate from the rest of the studio site.
The hero is a short animated scene I call feeding time. A screenshot gets captured, it's too big for the hungry retro computer to eat, PixelPinch shrinks it, and the computer eats it. It's all CSS and JavaScript, and clicking the scene replays it. The mascot wears a rainbow-striped strawberry badge as a nod to the old Apple logo, and the pixel cursor turns into a pointing hand over anything you can click.
Further down, a section works through the token math with a real example and says plainly where the estimate stops being exact.