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Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
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Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
i spent a long time researching various writing devices, such as the reMarkable, the microsoft surface, the ipads, wacom, etc., and the ipad (in my case, the non-pro) at the time at least really had the best ratio of pixel latency to price. it really wasn't even a competition. writing on an android with slow pixel latency or something is really jarring, but yeah, the apple pencil setup is truly great.
What makes an ipad with the pen better than a microsoft surface book or surface pro? I'm looking at buying pro 7 or book 3 for taking notes in onenote and whiteboarding.. so these is definitely a relevant post to me.
I haven't looked into it recently but yeah, like I said I was trying to find the sweet spot with pen latency and price. The iPad was cheap (~$350) and had great pen latency, whereas the reMarkable was not cheap or as full featured, and the Surface was also not as cheap and had reports of bad pen latency (e.g., see https://www.reddit.com/r/Surface/comments/e8kho9/if_there_is... for an example)
Update: It appears the situation has improved across the board. https://www.tomsguide.com/news/the-remarkable-2-is-an-ipad-p... says 20-21ms is pretty standard now.
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#133I started building my own with a friend because nothing else had what I wanted (great freehand drawing and text tools) and was cheap. We've only just finished the MVP, so feedback would be very helpful! https://browserboard.com/ I have no idea if it'll hold up under load, I guess let's see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You can share the URL to collaborate with someone else.
Neat; simple but I like it. One concrete thing that jumps out at me as I play around with it: I keep instinctively trying to hit Ctrl+Z to undo, which doesn't work (and then I remember there's a button). Might be nice to make that shortcut work.
Also: I enjoyed this:
> No BS
> Browserboard is written by two people in their spare time who aren’t thirsty for advertising dollars. We have no reason to spam you or violate your privacy.
A thought: any interest in porting to Sandstorm? It seems like the app would be a perfect fit, and giving people an easy way to run it themselves gives you an out if it gets too popular for you to keep running it for free. If you're not familiar:
Relevant blog post: https://sandstorm.io/news/2014-07-21-open-source-web-apps-re...
(Disclosure: I am one of the more active contributors to Sandstorm)
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#134I recommend WBO : https://wbo.ophir.dev/ I am the main developer, and I have been maintaining and using it for several years now. Some of its advantages : - It is fully open-source, free, and without advertisement. You can easily deploy it to your own server. - All the whiteboards have an infinite size. - It is fully web-based, you can use it without installing anything, even on relatively old browsers. - It's transl…
Thanks for sharing, looks interesting.
By the way, for some reason I have problems scrolling with the trackpad as it scrolls very slowly, while scrolling with the arrow keys works just fine.
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#135I heard about a whiteboard app that has fading gestures that were highly reviewed. Does anyone know which app has these?
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#136Its still very much in development, but we're building https://whiteboard.systems/ Its based on the idea that for most system diagrams, you just need boxes, text and arrows. everything else is superfluous. Its collaborative by default so you can invite someone to join you with the URL. The tools aren't discoverable yet, so to use it: - option(⌥) + click to create a box - option(⌥) + drag to create a grouping box - se…
Looks like we built a similar tool for the same purpose, designing system diagrams (https://collabuml.com).
Other than that, looks cool.
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#137I started building my own with a friend because nothing else had what I wanted (great freehand drawing and text tools) and was cheap. We've only just finished the MVP, so feedback would be very helpful! https://browserboard.com/ I have no idea if it'll hold up under load, I guess let's see. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ You can share the URL to collaborate with someone else.
As a suggestion, it would be nice to be able to try it without registering an account.
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#138I've been following the progress of https://room.sh and it looks really promising. Haven't used it much yet though.
room.sh co-founder here. Thanks! :) We've got loads of cool stuff on the horizon so stay tuned. That being said, happy to answer any questions if anyone has any.
As a suggestion, the website allows you to type a room name, which opens a new tab and asks you for the room name again, certainly the second step could be avoided.
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#139Our company was stuggling to conduct remote interviews, so I made a shared whiteboard tool to help out. Great for team collaboration as well. You can generate as many unique boards for free as you want here: https://interviewboard.io
I feel you, I created another tool which has helped me on system design interviews: https://collabuml.com, hopefully you will find it helpful.
Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?
#140While I don't use it daily, I built https://collabuml.com (launched on HN a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955971) which has been helpful for me, I made it this way as lots of time you mostly care about writing system diagrams instead of freestyle whiteboard.