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Witeboard
- kissgyorgy 6y agoI like the simplicity very much! It can be already useful. One thing is missing though; showing the zoom level. It is very necessary when more than 6 people try to write lots of things.
- quickthrower2 6y agoNice! I enjoyed using this in me old brick (iPhone 6). Makes we want to have a stylus.
- syspec 6y agoThis has almost no features. And I love that about it. Very responsive as well when testing from different tabs
- achow 6y agoAny pointers on locally hosted Whiteboard application? In our company we cannot use Whiteboards on cloud.
- dwwoelfel 6y agoYou could try spinning up https://github.com/precursorapp/precursor https://github.com/precursorapp/precursor The cloud version is running at https://precursorapp.com https://precursorapp.com
- pbsurf 6y agoTake at look at https://github.com/styluslabs/stylusboard https://github.com/styluslabs/stylusboard - no web client but native apps for all major platforms
- solidasparagus 6y agoI love that this exist, but the core problem with remote whiteboards is that everyone can write something legible when using a marker on a whiteboard, but it's way harder with a mouse/trackpad. It would be nice to have some features that made it easier - the features I really miss from apps I use to create diagrams are basic shapes like rectangles and the ability to select and move/resize/copy existing drawing. Witeboard is great name BTW.
- charles_f 6y agoI generally tend to agree. But drawing on that thing from my tablet is pretty darn awesome, it is not that far from the real thing
- zuhayeer 6y agoCheck out https://excalidraw.com/ https://excalidraw.com/
- teglsbo 6y agoThank you! What I am missing is not a whiteboard. Whiteboard is just a solution that works in the office. The underlying requirement is: I want to be able to express myself in a visual way together with others. So a solution to the same requirement, that works remote, shouldn't have to mimick a whiteboard. Instead I would like the ability to : * Draw straight rectangles, lines and arrows * Type text with my keyboard * Move stuff afterwards * Let participants point at different places simultaneously I'm looking forward to trying out Escalidraw. It seems to cover the first points, but not the last one.
- red_trumpet 6y agoThe first points might also describe a diagram tool like draw.io
- boomskats 6y agoSo I find miro.com does exactly all of this very well. It just happens to try to do a whole bunch of other stuff alongside it, which makes the initial investment in moving your team to using it quite substantial.
- andeee23 6y agoTry out figma. It wasn't made for this purpose exactly but it supports everything you just listed.
- ric2b 6y agoThis is amazing! It's so clean and intuitive and it supports live collaboration and saving documents without ever registering for an account, love it!
- CodeAid 6y agoThis is how an webapp should be. No fuss, directly to the point!
- DodgyEggplant 6y agoand an excellent first class domain!
- 3gg 6y agoPerfect for the coding interview in times of covid!
- 3gg 6y agoBest Time to Buy and Sell Stock II https://witeboard.com/9eae7ec0-05fe-11eb-943a-d1242b840242 https://witeboard.com/9eae7ec0-05fe-11eb-943a-d1242b840242
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- avtar 6y agoDon't bother clicking on that link unless you want to be greeted with a swastika...
- 3gg 6y agoSorry, that was not me! I had put my mouse-drawing abilities to test crafting a solution to the leetcode problem, and soon after publishing the link here, swarms of HN denizens rushed in and destroyed the beautifully crafted solution that would have otherwise gotten me a job in top tech companies.
- coding-saints 6y agoSorry if this was already suggested. Make sure you fix that load time asap so you don't lose any potential users prior to the screen being interactive. A quick hack might be to simply display a quick overlay dressed up like a landing page with a short description and have it load behind that until some CTA is pressed. That may prevent anyone from thinking the link is broke or whatever. As for the widget, I enjoy seeing the trend lately. It's nothing innovative, but is starting conversations on how remote workers have more options to incorporate similar things into our workflow. Great job!
- Diesel555 6y agoMy load time was not perceptible. It was telling me to draw before I could mentally register the page.
- Ataraxy 6y agoI'd make the cursor a little lighter shade in color if it's a blackboard.
- Stratoscope 6y agoI wrote "Hello World!" on witeboard.com using the active pen on my ThinkPad Yoga. It couldn't keep up with my writing and made a mess of it. Out of curiosity, I tried ziteboard.com (which came up in a search for "online whiteboard"), and it rendered my handwriting perfectly. Here are the results from the two sites: https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE https://imgur.com/a/nCKMEKE I repeated the experiment on my Galaxy Note 8 with its active pen, with similar results on both sites (not included in the images above). Witeboard completely failed, while Ziteboard rendered my handwriting as expected. I also tried conventional touchscreen/TrackPoint/touchpad input on both devices to make sure it wasn't an issue with the active pen, but the results were again the same. As one last test, I connected a mouse to the ThinkPad and tried both sites. Witeboard worked a little better with this pointing device: it mostly kept up but did have a lot of straight lines and sharp angles when I tried to draw scribbly circular patterns. Ziteboard again performed perfectly. I have no affiliation or prior knowledge of either of these sites, I am just reporting my experience in a quick test of each.
- brbsix 6y agoI'm not sure why this is being downvoted. I had a similar experience. Witeboard seems to have trouble with curves. Trying to draw an "o" would invariably result in geometric shapes, a perfect circle, or some sort of rectangle. I was experiencing a lot of latency as well, which only aggravated the situation.
- frosted-flakes 6y agoThere's a shape detection checkbox in the menu. That's probably the cause of geometric shapes.
- Stratoscope 6y agoThanks for the tip. I tried turning off that option and unfortunately it didn't improve things at all.
- brbsix 6y agoThat stopped it from conversion to perfect circles or elongated rectangles, but I still have issues drawing anything with smooth curves. E.g. Here's a side by side just drawing "o's" at varying speeds on witeboard and ziteboard.[0] To get anything remotely legible on witeboard, I have to be exceptionally slow. Even then, it's not a great result. [0]: https://imgur.com/a/QqJ3vpq https://imgur.com/a/QqJ3vpq
- bootcampwhere 6y agohttps://witeboard.com/e5aa64b0-0603-11eb-815d-c91a6e22db0a https://witeboard.com/e5aa64b0-0603-11eb-815d-c91a6e22db0a
- nickt 6y agoNice job. Very responsive from my iPad Pro with pencil.
- kristopolous 6y agoIs this live? As in if I share it, is it collaborative? (Excuse me if that's clearly stated or implied and I'm just dense)
- frosted-flakes 6y agoI think so. I opened it in two tabs and everything I drew in one showed up in the other (using the link creates by the share button).
- kristiandupont 6y agoNeat. A bug report: after about 15 seconds of use, I got a little "You are disconnected" warning. It disappeared almost immediately, clearing the whole thing.
- DoctorOW 6y agoExperienced this same issue. I didn't even have time to read the warning.
- hestefisk 6y agoBeing able to drop stickies would be nice. Ultimate consulting tool.
- Brajeshwar 6y agoSign-up fails in Safari (the email field is hidden). https://www.dropbox.com/s/jp86ens24h2043s/Screen%20Shot%202020-10-04%20at%2011.21.27%20AM.png?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/jp86ens24h2043s/Screen%20Shot%2020...
- teddysc 6y agoSign-up in Chrome failed with 502 Bad Gateway too
- mongol 6y agoA good remote whiteboard is surely missed in these times of remote work and isolation. But I begin to doubt that is possible to create something for regular computers that can fully replace the interaction and creativity that you can have with a colleague at a real whiteboard. Something about the size I think. It is not legible to draw as much on a screen as on a whiteboard and if you need to zoom and stuff the case is already lost.
- konschubert 6y agoAgree that the computer screen is too small There is the google Jamboard. It’s not perfect but I think it has the right idea.
- ponker 6y agoIt's also about being on your feet and in close proximity to your colleagues. It's not just about the writing surface.
- mongol 6y agoYes indeed. To hand over the pen and ask them to extend or elaborate on what you have drawn.
- creata 6y agoVery nice interface! Two minor suggestions. (1) when you enable "blackboard mode", the cursor should become white. As it is, the cursor is very hard to see on the blackboard. (2) it honestly took me a while to figure out that you can share just by sharing the link. Maybe make that clearer somehow?
- esoterae 6y agoDoesn't allow characters it doesn't think belong in my email address. LH of @ is local-only. Binned.
- anirudhmurali 6y agoGreat tool, so instantaneous. Bug: Erase All button doesn't work for me.
- vincnetas 6y agoSame here. Tested on ipad safari.
- mettamage 6y agoInterestingly, this web app exists already for 3 years. https://www.producthunt.com/posts/witeboard https://www.producthunt.com/posts/witeboard
- GistNoesis 6y agoCrash my lubuntu 18.04 session every time, when using firefox 80.0.1 (works fine with chromium though), Nvidia-driver 450.51.06, after waiting to load the screen goes black and blinks a few time.
- formalsystem 6y agoOnline whiteboards are just awful with a mouse, what's worked really well for my livestreams has been a WACOM like tablet that I can hook up via USB to my laptop or Desktop. I got this, it's cheap and great https://www.amazon.com/GAOMON-M10K2018-Graphic-Pressure-Battery-Free/dp/B07HQDN7W6/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=gaomon&qid=1601794752&sr=8-3 https://www.amazon.com/GAOMON-M10K2018-Graphic-Pressure-Batt... I use it to annotate pdfs and also with the MS whiteboard, it's not necessarily the best to collaborate with but I really like how I can zoom infinitely out to keep adding stuff. I prefer this setup over regular whiteboards for solo brainstorming sessions
- jansen 6y agoVery cool product, please keep at it. Feedback: scrolling feels tedious. Please allow holding space key + mouse click and drag to move around the board (similar to how most design tools handle this).
- boltefnovor 6y agoIt said “write anywhere” but it didn’t tell me why I should or what would happen so I closed it.
- hotgeart 6y agoCan't see my cursor on the blackboard (WIN 10)
- mikro2nd 6y agoSame experience on Firefox/Ubuntu - made it unusable.
- rcarmo 6y agoI want one of these that is free, cross-platform and lets me paste/drop in in some icons I have. And as a native app, not a web page. I realize that is almost impossible these days, but one can dream.
- creata 6y agoWhy do you want it as a native app? I, personally, prefer web pages wherever possible, because I know that they are well-sandboxed and can be run pretty much everywhere.
- denysvitali 6y agoperformance maybe? But we can use something in between: WASM
- StavrosK 6y agoIt's not impossible at all, it should be fairly straightforward to learn something like React Native or Flutter or Swift and make it, and we'll love you for it!
- swayamraina 6y agoTwo points as feedback 1. I use a stylus with my mac and this apparently does not work as expected. The web client should also support an option for stylus mode. 2. The "erase all" function is not working.
- ju-st 6y agoMS Paint as a service
- Johnyma22 6y agoSo Etherdraw? :) https://github.com/JohnMcLear/draw https://github.com/JohnMcLear/draw
- darshan 6y agoIt seems at least mostly on topic to share here this thing I released a little over a year ago: https://www.swapadoodle.com https://www.swapadoodle.com It's definitely not useful for the same things, but it has a lot of similarities and seems potentially interesting as something to compare and contrast with this.
- TeMPOraL 6y agoTested on my Dell Latitude 5290 2-in-1 (AKA. my sidearm), with Dell's active pen, running Firefox. Looks sleek, initially seemed to work fine with pen drawing. That was until I touched the screen with my palm. Then all hell broke loose - the app got stuck imagining there are some input events happening in the middle of the screen, so every attempt at drawing created a squiggly mess - every nth point dropped by my pen got connected with an imaginary point in the middle of the screen, and then back to my drawing.
- mrkramer 6y agoNice domain name.
- YetAnotherNick 6y agoGoogle has not much known product in google docs suite, called jamboard which works really well for this usecase and has tablet apps which makes it very good to use with apple pencil. Benefits over this include better tools, better sharing and security, and I am guess stability and scalability.
- lweber 6y agoI'm running Linux Mint 19 on my XPS15 from 2019. Opening this page in Firefox gives me an instant crash and reboot. I tried 2 times. Won't use again.
- Frauber84 6y agoI miss uploading images and PDFs that I can "lock" and write on top. Ziteboard does it, but it is expensive and also when someone zooms everyone is zoomed, which kind of sucks. Jamboard is also bad at writing on background images. We do need a good whiteboard app with a simple share indeed for classes.
- aldanor 6y agoJust noticed - undo is pretty flaky, e.g. if you draw a few shapes that get shape-detected like squares and circles, pressing undo will not only erase the last shape but also remove shape-detection on the second-last shape.
- akatechis 6y agoIs this supposed to be a touch/pen interface first? I'm trying it out with a mouse, and having many issues, like drawing of random lines as I draw, as well as losing lots of draw operations when it does a sync with the server.
- joshxyz 6y agoAwesome https://witeboard.com/02902930-064e-11eb-bc00-27b189d22b71 https://witeboard.com/02902930-064e-11eb-bc00-27b189d22b71
- joshxyz 6y agoLmao you guys drew all over it
- ablekh 6y agoI have tried to use various similar applications and the experience was overwhelmingly negative (due to limitations of mouse-based control). Thus, I'm considering getting an inexpensive graphics drawing tablet purely for ideation, note making, document annotation, and IT architectural diagramming (not for graphics design or digital painting!). A brief research narrowed down my choices to XP-Pen Deco 01 V2, Huion H610 Pro V2 and GAOMON M10K 2018 models (GAOMON and Huion are reported to be using the same [Huion's] driver). One thing that I'd like to know is whether one of these models has any significant advantages versus the two others? For example, I suspect that a touch ring on GAOMON might be much easier / more natural / more reliable to use than two-button zoom design on Huion and even more so than assignable buttons on XP-Pen. Another - and much more important - question is security and privacy. My concern is whether these (or any other similar devices, for that matter) send any private user information to their manufacturers (would denying relevant firewall prompts be enough? if so, would that be a problem from the driver update and/or other functionality perspective?). Finally, I'm curious about potential differences between these models in terms of their support for non-mainstream applications, e.g., Miro and ArchiMate. I would appreciate sharing your thoughts on this.
- kerryoco 6y agoyet another: a long time ago I found fabric.js and took a different approach to many I see here, which is to use it's SVG-style approach to the canvas. this has many pros and cons as you can imagine: https://dpkt.oko.nyc https://dpkt.oko.nyc I haven't attempted to support drawing in a serious way yet, I want to do it justice when I do. never-ending personal project, constructive criticism welcome