Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

#1

Post by simonmales » Fri, May 22, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

I feel my team was way more productive when we all were whiteboarding together when designing new solutions.

Recently I have been day dreaming about VR whiteboards and tablet assisted whiteboards as I feel the tactile sense of a pen would help.

What are you using today?

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#2

Post by nikivi » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

I love https://excalidraw.com

Christopher Chedeau did a recent talk on nice challenges they had building it in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fix2-SynPGE

I want to build a plugin for Figma to embed Excalidraw inside Figma as I use Figma for all my design work already.

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#3

Post by murkle » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:15 PM UTC

This seems very good: https://awwapp.com/

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#4

Post by iandanforth » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

https://miro.com/ (previously realtimeboard.com)

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#5

Post by sethammons » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

Wacom tablet and any shared canvas, usually Zoom’s. A colleague uses an ipad pro with a stylus.

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Post by rubayeet » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

Google Jamboard + Wacom Intuos tablet with stylus [1]

[1] https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuo...

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Post by darkerside » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:20 PM UTC

One by Wacom, with Autodesk sketch express. You can zoom share screen into the app, and it's much better than Zoom's native whiteboard function. Pressure sensitivity and functional pen buttons are so key.

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Post by senko » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

murkle wrote: post #3

This seems very good: https://awwapp.com/

Thanks!

Cofounder here, happy to answer any questions.

While AWW has been around for some time we've seen a big surge (~6x) in the past two months due to current situation (as did most online/collaborative tools).

While AWW can be used directly on site, we also have an embeddable version, for example some interviewing startups use us as part of their web-based interviewing workflows.

Edit to add: AWW was launched here almost 10 years ago as a hobby project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886353 It grew steadily over time and now profitably employs several people and is used by millions of people worldwide.

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#9

Post by sixhobbits » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

I've been following the progress of https://room.sh and it looks really promising. Haven't used it much yet though.

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#10

Post by iso1631 » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

I use a real whiteboard on my wall in shot of the camera