looks good to me, congratulations
Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
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Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#52Very nice. Seems to be vector-based (ie. how the eraser and undo/redo work, and allowing things like pan&zoom). I'm the author of a similar tool, https://awwapp.com/ , which is bitmap-based, ie the eraser works as it'd on a physical whiteboard, and there's no zoom (or undo/redo). Great start, looking forward to seeing the future progress!
Care to share income numbers (assuming it is ads based)? thanks
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#53This is little 'scratch-your-own-itch' project I started working on about 9 months ago. Front end is GWT, back end is Java servlets. Database was originally MySQL but switched to Prevayler for performance reasons. My YouTube video gives a nice overview of the benefits of a virtual whiteboard: http://youtu.be/MDEHFHG1l3Y What does Hacker News think?
Really cool, i'm missing CMD+Z as Redo shortcut
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#54I 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?
Yes typeable text is high on the to-do list (although on a touch-screen tablet it's probably just a efficient to draw the text)
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#55SSL, private boards, and some kind of assurance that what we're drawing truly is being erased.
Add that, and we'll pay you money to let us use it. I suspect other companies will, too.
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#56Very nice. Seems to be vector-based (ie. how the eraser and undo/redo work, and allowing things like pan&zoom). I'm the author of a similar tool, https://awwapp.com/ , which is bitmap-based, ie the eraser works as it'd on a physical whiteboard, and there's no zoom (or undo/redo). Great start, looking forward to seeing the future progress!
Care to share income numbers (assuming it is ads based)? thanks
It's not, but we've recently rolled out the ability to add the wihteboard to your own site, which is a paid subscription-based service.
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#57Doesn't work if cookies are blocked. Well, it is a "white board," anyway.
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#58This is little 'scratch-your-own-itch' project I started working on about 9 months ago. Front end is GWT, back end is Java servlets. Database was originally MySQL but switched to Prevayler for performance reasons. My YouTube video gives a nice overview of the benefits of a virtual whiteboard: http://youtu.be/MDEHFHG1l3Y What does Hacker News think?
The video shows Mark explaining to Sally how a Facebook login would work on her website with the whiteboard.
A killer missing feature seems to be microphone support, which the video alludes to.
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#59Surprised to learn this is Java and long-polling. (These features scream Meteor / DDP to me.) Regardless, it's a v good start. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Show HN: A virtual whiteboard for working or teaching remotely
#60I 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.
Outstanding! But I would not think to look under "Options" for an active feature like this.