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Show HN: Swap-a-Doodle, a cross-platform social drawing app

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Re: Show HN: Swap-a-Doodle, a cross-platform social drawing app

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Dude that's awesome. Congrats! I like its simplicity and minimal interface, with no shenanigans. Just a plain ol' drawing app that lets you share. Great stuff :)

Thanks so much! I was definitely inspired by Go's (the language I use on the back end) careful balance of well-honed simplicity. There was a lot more work than one might think to keep things so simple!

Re: Show HN: Swap-a-Doodle, a cross-platform social drawing app

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Hi, all. OP / owner / founder here. I’m finally launching a product that’s taken me years longer than I’d anticipated to complete. It’s a much bigger project than anything I’ve done before. My first app was the first battery indicator on Android, back in 2009, which was very successful by my standards (I didn’t have a college degree at the time and made way more money from it than I’d ever made from a job.) I also ha…

Note: if you draw, hit Share, then back out, it wiped my contents without a prompt.

Were you using it in a browser? If you just use "Forward" in the browser, you'll go back (that is, forward) to the doodle you created, if you accidentally back out of it. In the native apps you can't go "forward" again, but if you have a (free) account, all your created doodles are in your "Doodles" folder.

Or am I picking up on confusion about my general model (which I'm certainly open to feedback about). If you draw and don't share, but press back or try to leave the page, you're prompted about destructively leaving. Sharing creates the doodle and makes a link for you to share (or bookmark, or whatever you like), so the contents aren't considered wiped at that point; they're considered successfully sent.

Please let me know if I'm failing to understand what isn't working as you expect, of if you think my model is confusing to new users. Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Swap-a-Doodle, a cross-platform social drawing app

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Here's an example of something really adorable made collaboratively by two people. The first person sent the first part to the second person, who used the Doodle-on-Doodle feature to add to it and make an even cuter story out of it.

https://www.swapadoodle.com/d/5288420972691456

I think 9× is the best speed to watch it at. (I'm still thinking of adding a way for the author of a Doodle to change its default speed.)

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