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Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by louhike »

soneca wrote: post #16

Great work! My feature request: similar to the "insert pic", create an insert slide. You upload a .PPT and select which slide you want to use. If teachersare going to use this, many of them will already have a powerpoint to use. Adding to this, an easy way to navegate betweens different whiteboards of the same author (so it is easy to go to the next slide). Just my opinion about what might work.

The problem is that it will then become an interactive powerpoint, not a whiteboard anymore. It sounds more like a new product to me, not just a simple new feature.

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by nfmangano »

wodow wrote: post #14

I love it - works perfectly... but immediately the feature creeper in me has kicked in. Killer features 1. Be able to type in text (any font will do) 2. Drag-and-drop an image to be be able to annotate it over the top (would be excellent design task, e.g. using screenshots of some work-in-progress). 3. Movable objects?

If you need those features, you're welcome to have a look at my phd project, http://sdcl.ics.uci.edu/research/calico/, check out the second video. Admittedly, it's a java application rather than a webpage, but a few companies have found it useful so far. The project is available on github here: https://github.com/uci-sdcl/calico.

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by MarkMc »

krmmalik wrote: post #27

Oh my god. I love this! I've been waiting for a simple polished solution for this for years and years. When skype came along and then we got skype extensions, I thought they'd solve this, but oh no. Every solution that has come out so far has been mediocre at best. I'm glad someone decided to tackle this properly. I haven't had chance to try on iPad, but from the homepage it seems it'll work fine there as well?

Haha thank you! Yes it works fine on an iPad - in fact better than an laptop because using a finger to draw is so much more fluid and intuitive than a mouse or touchpad. Here's a video of me using WhiteboardFox.com to draw with my iPad: http://youtu.be/MDEHFHG1l3Y?t=1m10s

And yes I had the same thoughts last year when I was looking to work with a remote programmer: "Surely, surely someone has a half-decent solution?!". At the time, no. Now, yes :)

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by balabaster »

wodow wrote: post #14

I love it - works perfectly... but immediately the feature creeper in me has kicked in. Killer features 1. Be able to type in text (any font will do) 2. Drag-and-drop an image to be be able to annotate it over the top (would be excellent design task, e.g. using screenshots of some work-in-progress). 3. Movable objects?

I agree, these 3 features would push this over the top in terms of usability. This would make remote consulting so much easier too.

Edit: Well done though, awesome 1st cut :)

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by caente »

lazyant wrote: post #29

great! only missing typing text

I don't think this should have typing of any kind. I think it will be faster and easier if stays as it is. The focus should be in making it even more reactive/real time.

We might start using it right away :-)

Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely

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Post by 8ig8 »

wodow wrote: post #14

I love it - works perfectly... but immediately the feature creeper in me has kicked in. Killer features 1. Be able to type in text (any font will do) 2. Drag-and-drop an image to be be able to annotate it over the top (would be excellent design task, e.g. using screenshots of some work-in-progress). 3. Movable objects?

Re: #2, feature exists. See Options > Insert Pic.
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