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Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by deadbeef404 »

vikrum wrote: post #2

Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!

The memories of KidPix have come flooding back! The is awesome! FYI: After a few minutes of using this, it seems to work quite well in Chrome on Ubuntu.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by machinelearning »

zck wrote: post #27

Great -- the very first button I press (the frowning cat) cleared out my entire painting. And I have no idea how to get it back. Clicking on every button shows that clicking the cat again brings it back. What does this cat actually do? Labels would be useful.

The bomb feature could very easily turn creative play time into a traumatizing event for a child. I second the labelling of the buttons. With that being said, amazing product!

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by matt2000 »

vikrum wrote: post #2

Hey HN — so, after finding a 15-30min block at the end of each day over the span of about a a month, this little side project is about done. I had a blast working on this with my kids acting as PMs :) I haven't tested it on non-OSX, and I imagine that the unicode/emoji support will be broken. I considered just including the OTF for those, but that's on order of ~40MB. Ideas welcome!

Very fun, thanks for making this and open sourcing as well. Maybe as our kids get older they can start checking out the source.

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by sanoli »

Sorry for asking here, but does anybody know of a web page where you get to see someone's drawing and then you write a caption for it, then someone else will have the caption open on their monitor and they get to draw it, and on and on? It was fun! Then I lost the URL...

Re: Show HN: Kiddo Paint

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

kbenson wrote: post #38

It's worth mentioning TuxPaint[1], which has been around for over a decade. That said, well done! There's no reason we shouldn't have plenty of choices for free and open source childrens software. 1: http://www.tuxpaint.org/

I've never heard of KidPix before but KiddoPaint seems like a web based less colourful TuxPaint - always loved the sound effects, the kids liked them too.
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