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Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by calinet6 »

rio517 wrote: post #57
thebouv wrote: post #12

I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so an example of when this is used would be great. Some feedback: I use Balsamiq and have for years. The whole reason I use a mockup tool in the first place is so I don't have to draw everything by hand or m…

I have a real need for such a tool - I work at a non-profit (MAYDAY PAC) and we pull expertise from distributed technical volunteers. While it's a good start, I agree it's far from "We fixed mockups" To your point: The inability to use pre-drawn UI items here is a deal breaker.

It's a collaborative sketching tool; not a collaborative mockup tool.

It remains flexible enough to play with visual concepts outside the restrictions of a UI kit. That's a good thing in my book.

I've actually been looking for a collaborative sketching tool for quite some time; but using terms like 'live whiteboard.' Seems closer to that.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by cachvico »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #42

If anybody from Trello is around, we'd love to do an integration. As Trello users ourselves, we want to be able to attach a Precursor wireframe directly to a card and sketch our ideas in a Precursor doc without leaving Trello. Contact daniel@precursorapp.com

Send them an email...

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by paulus_magnus »

Too wrote: post #74
keithy wrote: post #58

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As a college CS student, It's actually super useful for college students working on a project. The only good choice right now is Google DOCS for collaboration, having a realtime collab mockup creation tool would be very helpful for multiple college students working on a project.

There are quite many choices if you look around, in uni we used http://cosketch.com for math alot and i was very happy with it, it looks a bit outdated today but the workflow is better than most similar tools i've tried, very quick, non intrusive, keyboard shortcuts etc. Only drawback is that things are not saved permanently and it doesn't have many widgets if you plan to use it primarily for mockups. Another good ti…

I'm working on something similar: - vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934

http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e

- unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34...

- draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab

A bit like if google docs had a baby with OneNote

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by ichub »

paulus_magnus wrote: post #105
Too wrote: post #74

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There are quite many choices if you look around, in uni we used http://cosketch.com for math alot and i was very happy with it, it looks a bit outdated today but the workflow is better than most similar tools i've tried, very quick, non intrusive, keyboard shortcuts etc. Only drawback is that things are not saved permanently and it doesn't have many widgets if you plan to use it primarily for mockups. Another good ti…

I'm working on something similar: - vector graphics/drawings created by freehand / writing http://write-live.com/d/dba21681-8d3f-4fbe-8b4b-e5c1983df934 http://write-live.com/d/8f9b7846-a7b9-4e5c-b704-dad9aa87d14e - unlimited* levels of zoom http://docs.write-live.com/WriteliveServer/webview.html?d=34... - draw on a tablet, view on tablet / web http://write-live.com/d/538254c5-7d31-41f2-83bb-bcd0a7cee7ab A bit like if…

I finished something like this too, after working on it for about a year: http://papertogether.com/ Of course it's not as fully featured, but it was a fun experience. I'm surprised to see that so many others had this idea and implemented it too - I thought I was the only one interested in collaborative drawing.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by KurtMueller »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #34
Spooks wrote: post #25

How did you find the process of working with React for this project compared to other js libraries

It's much more pleasant to build UIs with lots of different states in React, because you have a full programming language at your disposal. The last js library I worked with was Knockout.js. Having to use Knockout's limited subset of a programming language to do view logic meant that lots of view logic lived in the models. But the really big difference is in using ClojureScript. I converted CircleCI's open-source fro…

Would you mind expounding a bit as to why the big difference in creating ui was clojurescript? Thank you!

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by dwwoelfel »

moron4hire wrote: post #66
dwwoelfel wrote: post #50

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I would have thought it would be a touch event, but it's actually a normal scroll event. The only difference I can see is that it has the ctrl bit flipped. Here's the stackoverflow answer: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15416851/catching-mac-tra...

I understand that, but do any of the touch events fire in parallel? Like, just before the pinch happens, is there not a touch start even for when the fingers touch the screen? The idea is to change the rate of the normal scroll event only if there are fingers on the screen.

I don't think there are any touch events at all when you're using a trackpad on a mac. For mobile, we can distinguish by the touch events.

Re: Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React

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Post by moron4hire »

dwwoelfel wrote: post #108
moron4hire wrote: post #66

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I understand that, but do any of the touch events fire in parallel? Like, just before the pinch happens, is there not a touch start even for when the fingers touch the screen? The idea is to change the rate of the normal scroll event only if there are fingers on the screen.

I don't think there are any touch events at all when you're using a trackpad on a mac. For mobile, we can distinguish by the touch events.

Oh, yes, I'm sorry. I completely spaced on what you were saying.
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