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Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by vikrum »

azinman2 wrote: post #17

Good job! I liked Kid Pix as a kid myself...big part of my childhood. The other day I was thinking back to my school days when Apple's ImageWriter II's were everywhere, and people used Print Shop (I think?) to make banners all the time. Because of how the printing technology worked -- writing to a continuous stream of paper -- banners were easy to do. We had banners in many of our class rooms, birthday parties, etc.…

I have many fond memories of Print Shop! I remember that program would also print "greeting cards" that you'd fold in quarters. The banners were a pre-birthday task that'd never get overlooked :)

It's interesting that an entire category of features fell by the wayside as a byprodct of the elimination of form-feed/perforated paper.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by tekromancr »

stevejohnson wrote: post #19

I love the spirit of this, and I've been waiting for someone to make it for years, if I didn't get to it first! If anyone wants to make a similar web app, I maintain an open source library whose sole purpose is putting JavaScript drawing programs on web pages with custom tools. http://literallycanvas.com/ Here's a simple web app I made with it that saves to local storage and uploads to Dropbox and Imgur: http://drawp…

Oh, cool! I actually played with literally canvas a little while ago when I built this: http://tekromancr.github.io/drawchat/

I eventually decided to go with drawingboard, though I don't remember exactly why. But I was absolutely thinking about using literally canvas to build a kidpix-style webapp!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by stevejohnson »

tekromancr wrote: post #33
stevejohnson wrote: post #19

I love the spirit of this, and I've been waiting for someone to make it for years, if I didn't get to it first! If anyone wants to make a similar web app, I maintain an open source library whose sole purpose is putting JavaScript drawing programs on web pages with custom tools. http://literallycanvas.com/ Here's a simple web app I made with it that saves to local storage and uploads to Dropbox and Imgur: http://drawp…

Oh, cool! I actually played with literally canvas a little while ago when I built this: http://tekromancr.github.io/drawchat/ I eventually decided to go with drawingboard, though I don't remember exactly why. But I was absolutely thinking about using literally canvas to build a kidpix-style webapp!

I'd guess there was some kind of missing API. I've done a lot of work on the API over the past six months, so you might find it to be a lot better these days.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by sumo »

We had the same idea but wanted to go much much further. You should really try it out, its called Collusion. https://col.lu/ You have to sign up but it keeps your drawings like google docs and is real-time collaborative without the other people signing up.

Works on everything too, tablets, laptops, supports ms surface etc and is free for public drawings.

The explore page on our website also shows you what others have drawn so also check that out. https://collusionapp.com/explore

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

sumo wrote: post #35

We had the same idea but wanted to go much much further. You should really try it out, its called Collusion. https://col.lu/ You have to sign up but it keeps your drawings like google docs and is real-time collaborative without the other people signing up. Works on everything too, tablets, laptops, supports ms surface etc and is free for public drawings. The explore page on our website also shows you what others have…

I don't know if I'd say it's really the same. There's tons of drawing apps, but this is much more of a nostalgic thing, and it's for kids.

Also, it's open source, which is a huge draw. (I'm going to be porting it to a web platform... probably tonight, I'm excited.)

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by sumo »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #36
sumo wrote: post #35

We had the same idea but wanted to go much much further. You should really try it out, its called Collusion. https://col.lu/ You have to sign up but it keeps your drawings like google docs and is real-time collaborative without the other people signing up. Works on everything too, tablets, laptops, supports ms surface etc and is free for public drawings. The explore page on our website also shows you what others have…

I don't know if I'd say it's really the same. There's tons of drawing apps, but this is much more of a nostalgic thing, and it's for kids. Also, it's open source, which is a huge draw. (I'm going to be porting it to a web platform... probably tonight, I'm excited.)

Depends what you mean by kids, but actually we did a lot of work with schools and the kids love it.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by neovive »

vikrum wrote: post #31
azinman2 wrote: post #17

Good job! I liked Kid Pix as a kid myself...big part of my childhood. The other day I was thinking back to my school days when Apple's ImageWriter II's were everywhere, and people used Print Shop (I think?) to make banners all the time. Because of how the printing technology worked -- writing to a continuous stream of paper -- banners were easy to do. We had banners in many of our class rooms, birthday parties, etc.…

I have many fond memories of Print Shop! I remember that program would also print "greeting cards" that you'd fold in quarters. The banners were a pre-birthday task that'd never get overlooked :) It's interesting that an entire category of features fell by the wayside as a byprodct of the elimination of form-feed/perforated paper.

I fondly remember Print Shop printing cards and banners on the Epson LX-80 dot matrix on the Apple IIe monochrome (green and black screen). Piecing a banner together these days from a series of 8x10 sheets is just not the same. :)
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