Very cool and lots of business potential. My nephew loves to 'make' comics. I can see parents uploading their kids drawing and adding speech bubbles.
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Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Awesome and useful are orthogonal. I found it awesome too, but I have no use for it.
I wouldn't say that they are necessarily orthogonal, in fact, I would say that most of the time they align pretty well.
In what is usually described as a sweet spot or what Steve would call good design.
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#83Useless? No way! Just a clever title! ;)
Nice work, bookmarked! You should create more useless projects IMO! Or better this one!
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#84Nice. Reminds me of my Bubble Project concept from a couple of years ago. http://valentinlaube.de/projects/bubble%20project/
Edit: check out the interactive prototype on the bottom of the page
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#85Your app didn't really like my vertically oriented screen, but otherwise it's really neat, the random picture button is really genius (lets us use the software quickly). I hate to be "that guy" but... maybe using rounded buttons for the "preview and save" would be better? It seems to fit the aesthetic
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#86It's sad that people call their little/fun projects useless. I just used your project and thought it was awesome. And even the worst project ever is useful for you . It's how you learn, build and explore. Plus, some truly great things have started out as "useless."
Sadly, it's often a good idea to preface "Show HN" submissions with this nowadays so that someone else doesn't tell you how useless your project is in the comments thread.
It's the analogous of Reddit comments starting with "I know this will be downvoted but..."
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#87Turn this into a Facebook app that lets you make comics and it could be big.
Also, add some more fonts ;)
Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#88Looks awesome !
I was using befunky, and ps previously, but this one s gonna be my new fav
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#89Re: Show HN: my useless weekend project, add speech bubbles to images
#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sadly, it's often a good idea to preface "Show HN" submissions with this nowadays so that someone else doesn't tell you how useless your project is in the comments thread.
It's the analogous of Reddit comments starting with "I know this will be downvoted but..."
Sort of, except that this is usually considered as down vote baiting on HN and is frowned upon. From HN's guidelines: "Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you."[0]. In this case though, I don't feel it was OP's intention to invite down votes.