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ASK HN: (What) Would you pay for this Google Chrome Web App?
- franze 16y agoand if not, what's missing so that it would be worth your hard earned money?
- scrrr 16y agoCould be fun for children on the iPad/Galaxy Tab I guess. If you provide a couple outline-images (Disney-licensed characters would be best I guess..) and better tools to color them, e.g. other brushes. Right now it does not appear to be a finished app.
- simias 16y agoMmm, forgive me if I'm missing something obvious but I don't understand what your app does exactly. Care to make a longer description? Or maybe better if you have some time, a video?
- franze 16y agosimply said: it uses google chromes filereader object to enable drag & drop (for images), after a successful (image) drop it does some blob recognition algo (outline detection) on the image canvas, then replaces onmousemove a circular section of that canvas with the data from another canvas (of the same image with another color "filter") or to put it a more complex way: it magically transforms images into magic digital coloring pages.
- asmosoinio 16y agoI too didn't understand the purpose... Also: Are you supposed to be able to drag&drop pictures from other tabs to this tool? Didn't work for me, but "Chhose File..." worked fine.
- franze 16y agothe drop event of google chrome seems not to support "other tab drop" currently, only drag & drop from the desktop, don't know whats the reason behind it .... difficult to word this in a way so that it does not confuse "not technical experiences" users ... drag'n'drop != drag'n'drop ... thats a difficult sales argument
- anonymoushn 16y agoI think sample images would do a lot for you. Some sort of detailed description would be helpful too, because I had no idea what the app did until I used it, and if I had to pay for it first I would probably just not use it. Also, when you upload an animated .gif the different colors seem to uncover different frames of the image, which confused me for a minute. ---Edit--- It looks like this http://ompldr.org/vNzFpaw http://ompldr.org/vNzFpaw
- franze 16y agostrange effect, must look into it ... but it looks awesome
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- feint 16y agono. its the sort of tool i would use once or twice. I would only pay for a chrome app if it was something that provided value day in day out.
- swalberg 16y agoSpeaking as a parent of 3 young boys, I can't see myself using this, let alone paying for it. We've got a house stuffed with crayons and colouring books. At the dollar store, they're probably a buck each, so it's not as if this is a cost avoidance issue. In my mind, part of the fun of colouring is putting something to paper. My kids used to play on tuxpaint and they'd just see if they could fill the page with stamps. Give them a colouring book (or blank paper) and they actually try to make something. Something that I can put on the fridge. A story they can tell you. This has none of that.
- franze 16y agovalid point(s) ...but then, what's the fridge of the internet? facebook?
- DanielStraight 16y agoI don't think kids young enough to enjoy coloring books are likely to care about Facebook.
- swalberg 16y agoCould be. We share pics of the kids with non-local family over facebook. But really, putting stuff on the fridge is more about making the kid feel appreciated than anything else.
- senko 16y agoHow about turning it into a regular web service which parents can use to upload any photo and turn it into a coloring page (PDF) they can print out. You could have a "free" service for producing, say, one paper a day, and charge for version with more. Any parent whose child likes it will want to buy it. You could copy some of patio11's ingenius marketing tactic - have a set of pages (done using your tool from freely available (or purchased) photos) that people can download, and hook them on the app.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoMake two versions, one ad-free for 99cts and one free with ads.