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Dabbleboard releases developer API (plz give feedback)

10 points by zhyder 18y ago

zhyder 18y ago
You may remember we had launched Dabbleboard on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798. For those who haven't checked it out before, it's an online whiteboard with a completely reinvented UI ("a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck"). The feedback was amazing (useful in terms of features and motivating as well), and -if you haven't seen the site in a while- you probably will discover that a lot of your feedback has been incorporated. Thanks again! One of the obvious features is to have a developer API. Dabbleboard makes more sense when integrated with other communication and collaboration services. As a standalone app, its usefulness is limited. Please give us feedback (either as a comment here, or by email) regarding anything about Dabbleboard. Though of course I'm hoping you'll evaluate/use the API and have feedback about it in particular :).
buglewood 18y ago
I'm liking this! have to take a look...
larrykubin 18y ago
I didn't see this the first time around, but I love the app! It's so fun. I love the public galleries and toolkits, and the ability to embed and share drawings so easily. If I had more time on my hands at the moment, I'd give more feedback and actually play with the API. Bookmarking and will get back to it!
- zhyder 18y ago
  Thanks! Would love to hear more from you (feel free to email zhyder AT dabbleboard DOT com).
andrewf 18y ago
I dabbled away, then followed the prompt :To save your drawings, log in or sign up". After signing up I was returned to /main, with a blank slate and no drawings down the left hand side. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1
- zhyder 18y ago
  That's somewhat intentional, but I can see how that isn't obvious. At the signup screen, I guess we should add a checkbox with "Copy drawings made as Guest1234 to new account".
colinplamondon 18y ago
How do you make money?
- zhyder 18y ago
  Don't make any yet from the website, though we're planning to offer a premium version with more features at some point (SSL, view-vs-edit access control, SVG export, etc.). We're fortunate to have gotten a couple of custom whiteboard contracts though, which have given us some money to burn. (Already started burning as well: lawyers!)
  - colinplamondon 18y ago
    Really cool, that sounds great. It'd also be great to be able to export .psd files that are fully layered, but I'm not sure if that's even possible.

10 points by zhyder 18y ago

You may remember we had launched Dabbleboard on HN a few months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=202798. For those who haven't checked it out before, it's an online whiteboard with a completely reinvented UI ("a digital whiteboard that doesn't suck"). The feedback was amazing (useful in terms of features and motivating as well), and -if you haven't seen the site in a while- you probably will discover that a lot of your feedback has been incorporated. Thanks again! One of the obvious features is to have a developer API. Dabbleboard makes more sense when integrated with other communication and collaboration services. As a standalone app, its usefulness is limited. Please give us feedback (either as a comment here, or by email) regarding anything about Dabbleboard. Though of course I'm hoping you'll evaluate/use the API and have feedback about it in particular :).

buglewood 18y ago

I'm liking this! have to take a look...

larrykubin 18y ago

I didn't see this the first time around, but I love the app! It's so fun. I love the public galleries and toolkits, and the ability to embed and share drawings so easily. If I had more time on my hands at the moment, I'd give more feedback and actually play with the API. Bookmarking and will get back to it!

zhyder 18y ago
Thanks! Would love to hear more from you (feel free to email zhyder AT dabbleboard DOT com).

andrewf 18y ago

I dabbled away, then followed the prompt :To save your drawings, log in or sign up". After signing up I was returned to /main, with a blank slate and no drawings down the left hand side. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_5; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.2 Safari/525.20.1

zhyder 18y ago
That's somewhat intentional, but I can see how that isn't obvious. At the signup screen, I guess we should add a checkbox with "Copy drawings made as Guest1234 to new account".

colinplamondon 18y ago

How do you make money?

zhyder 18y ago
Don't make any yet from the website, though we're planning to offer a premium version with more features at some point (SSL, view-vs-edit access control, SVG export, etc.). We're fortunate to have gotten a couple of custom whiteboard contracts though, which have given us some money to burn. (Already started burning as well: lawyers!)
- colinplamondon 18y ago
  Really cool, that sounds great. It'd also be great to be able to export .psd files that are fully layered, but I'm not sure if that's even possible.