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WhiteyBoard: An Instant Whiteboard For your Instant Office
Created by YC 2010 Alumni as a side project.
- lacker 17y agoWe need one of these!
- jasonwilk 17y agoI know you do Kevin.
- thehodge 17y agoSeems they put the price up $10 because of the techcrunch feature, wonder if that will bite them on the arse. Would be interesting to see the ghosting / soaking reviews, does it leak into the wall, how hard is it to clean.
- jasonwilk 17y agoThat was seriously a mistake. It was never supposed to cost $15. We launched the website last night and had a mix up. If you do a wayback query, you will see the homepage has always said $25.
- thehodge 17y agoOkay cool, any chance of UK delivery if I pay shipping (I also work with a UK sticker company if your after a UK distributer)
- jasonwilk 17y agoFollow us on Twitter.com/whiteyboards to stay up on international shipments. We will start accepting them next week sometime.
- dskhatri 17y agoWhere in Los Angeles are you?
- jasonwilk 17y agoI'm actually in San Francisco finishing up Y Combinator for my primary business. The other guys are in Los Angeles near Loyola Marymount University.
- prawn 17y agoMy concern would be accidentally wiping some of the pen/texta/marker onto surrounding walls.
- yarone 17y agoI wonder how well the whiteboard would work on a "standard" (North American) textured wall. In the video, the person (obviously a model) sticks the whiteboard on the door (not the wall). The door is clearly a very smooth surface.
- hristov 17y agoI was thinking exactly the same thing. It is going to be very inconvenient if you feel the texture when writing. All my walls are textured as are the walls in most American offices.
- jasonwilk 17y agoHey guys, we are going to have version 2 ready soon, which will alleviate any problems with majorly textured walls or brick walls. Currently, this version works on textured walls. It gets the job done. You can follow us on twitter.com/whiteyboards to stay updated. I'll be sure to have the team get on it.
- singular 17y agoSeems very similar/identical to Magic Whiteboard - http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/ http://www.magicwhiteboard.co.uk/ - a UK product that was featured on the UK version of dragon's den - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvguJJNilA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QvguJJNilA - is Whiteyboard a completely separate company or have Magic Whiteboard not yet got a US patent?
- jasonwilk 17y agoThis has nothing to do with them. Have a separate patent in the US.
- ableal 17y agoWhat I would like to know is where to buy 3M VHB double-sided stickers. They're much better than the crap 3M and others sell in supermarkets, which can't hold an asthenic gnat. Judging from the peel-off paper I saved, that's the stuff our local highway-toll radio-pay company uses to hold the transceivers to the windscreen. One nearly needs a crowbar to pry them off the glass.
- johnohara 17y agoAnybody using IdeaPaint? --> http://www.ideapaint.com http://www.ideapaint.com Rust-Oleum sells a product too. --> http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128 http://www.rustoleum.com/CBGProduct.asp?pid=128
- yankeeracer73 17y agoNot to go off topic or anything but is this kind of an unfortunate name? "Whitey" has pretty negative connotations here in the US anyway.
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- jasonwilk 17y agoThe co-founder is Australian. I couldn't sway him on the name. I agree, it is questionable and apologies if anyone is offended. Our team is multi-national and they all voted to move forward with the name.
- anonymousDan 17y agoThe connection never even entered my mind to be honest, and I'd be ahem well acquainted with the term.
- teamonkey 17y agoWhere I come from it means to vomit before passing out due to excessive drug taking. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whitey http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=whitey
- mkramlich 17y agoIn reality, very few if any black people will probably end up using it anyway. Probably the same relative percentage that frolic around on the beach, go skiing, etc. Black people and white boards -- can't ever think of a time when I've seen that combination. Folks, I'm half-joking. Obviously, some black people use whiteboards. What struck me was how they're really on the fringes of the core demographic who use them, at best. So the name struck me as funny. And agreed, not the safest choice, but like that saying: no publicity is bad publicity. The only kind of bad publicity is no publicity at all.
- imajes 17y agoJason- You've got a few issues here. I'm only buying it because you're on HN, otherwise i'd have run away, but: - Your paypal integration is busted. I can't complete checkout. - Your billing page seems to still display http - i know you're using an iframed wuform-- but it's not going to cut it. People want to give money. You're not helping them do it. makes a billion times more sense to give up on the iframe and direct straight to wuforms. If you would rather a more integrated e-comm experience, i suggest shopify or similar.
- jasonwilk 17y agoWe seem to be processing checkout fine. I understand your concerns with the http, I thought it would be fine since we are using Wufoo iframe, but I guess that's not cool for the general public. I really appreciate you pointing that out. If you still can't process or feel uncomfortable, email me your paypal address and I will send you a PayPal request. My email: jason at tinycomb.com
- xal 17y agoIf you want to use Shopify I can give you half off the sticker price for a fellow HNer.
- jasonwilk 17y agoThanks Xal. I will get in touch for sure. I wonder how many sales i lost out on today because of the ssl issue. Probably a lot. #fail
- revorad 17y agoHi xal, can I use Shopify for charging monthly subscriptions for my webapp?
- xal 17y agoSorry you can't. It's something people ask us all the time but it's just not the battle we picked ( so to speak ). I haven't got personal experience with them but I'm hearing good things about chargify.
- fnid2 17y agoWhen I click on the play button, a new window opens, but it's blank... Put up some photos maybe? I'm on FF 3.5.8
- jonchui 17y agoI really like this idea Jason! & you can't really beat that price point (especially compared to the INCREDULOUSLY expensive ideapaint) But, this reminds me of the $28 DIY 4' x 8' whiteboard? http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2007/06/16/how-to-dirt-cheap-wall-sized-whiteboards/ http://chrismetcalf.net/blog/archives/2007/06/16/how-to-dirt... Anyone ever tried making their own?
- jasonwilk 17y agoThanks Jon. I've never tried making one myself. Took us 6 months to make a mass-market version of this to help out startups.
- noonespecial 17y ago"Showerboard" ghosts excessively and is very hard to clean. I ended up with a big sheet of clear acrylic from "home depot" instead. It was 36" x 72" (3 feet by 6 feet) and cost about $48. It worked perfectly, was easy to hang because its quite rigid and makes a very cool effect when you shine a light on the edges. (The marker marks light up a little). You can find the stuff in sheets of many sizes by the window and glass repair stuff.
- nitrogen 17y agoWaxing the showerboard helps. I'd suggest experimenting with different brands of automotive wax to see which one is easiest to clean without resisting the markers. My middle school geometry teacher used waxed showerboard (over 10 years ago) and it worked quite well. Thanks for the idea of using the acrylic. I may have to try that; maybe I can combine it with a FTIR multitouch system or something.
- lotharbot 17y agoHow hard/expensive would it be to get a simple pattern printed on this, say, small faint dots forming a 1" grid? I currently use a pair of metal whiteboards with pre-printed grids (glued to a folding table) for my D&D setup. I'd be really interested in using this as a replacement, but I'd rather not have to draw in the grid by hand. Even better: if I supplied a black and white, vector-graphic image, could I get it faintly printed on one of these sheets?
- jasonwilk 17y agothis will be on version 2. Coming soon. Follow us on Twitter.com/whiteyboards for those updates. DM us for any other requests, I like the feedback from HN.
- prawn 17y agoOffer some preprinted with browser chrome for web developers. I'd buy that. Or underlines (for to-do lists).
- wmblaettler 17y agoHow about 'static stickers' (static cling film) with various overlays, browser chrome, iphone template, grids, lines, etc. Can stick to the board wherever you want and write over them as well.
- profgubler 17y agoJust a note. You are already using gmail so why not sign up for google apps so you can have an email that isn't gmail. It looks a lot more professional and it won't cost you anything as long as you don't have more than I think 3 users on it.
- kitcar 17y agoJust bought one. Going to attach it to my draftsman table I picked up at a thrift shop - should make quite a useful work surface...
- gchucky 17y agoAny word on how easy it is to remove? I'm planning on moving in a few months and I wouldn't want to leave it stuck to the wall in my current apartment.
- fhirzall 17y agoI'm not sure why, but the video doesn't load in Chrome.
- seanmcdonnell 17y agoJason, are you running a micro retail business and a seed stage growth venture at the same time? Any advice for someone aspiring to do the same?
- miesl 17y agocan this work as a projector screen you think? can you make it in 10 foot wide?
- miesl 17y agoHow easy is it take off the wall and put back on repeatedly or is this meant for a one time application?
- juvenn 17y agoHi Json, I'd hope I could buy one here, from China!
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- lsc 17y agohow are you doing distribution? by hand or is that outsourced?
- krishna2 17y agoGo to the nearby Lowe's and ask for Tile Board. You get a 4' x 8' for $13-and-change. Just glue it to your wall. I have it at my home (in fact, I got them cut in smaller sizes so my three year old can put one on the floor and draw on it).