Show HN: Sketchology • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by sp332 » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:17 PM UTC

nulagrithom wrote: post #16

taejo wrote: post #3

> Previously the domain of thousand-dollar tools Or Inkscape

Inkscape is on iOS?

Thousand-dollar tools are on iOS?

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by ewebbuddy » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:18 PM UTC

mickrobk wrote: post #20

guizzy wrote: post #18

Any plans for other platforms? Android? Windows 8?

The first 6 months or so of development were on Windows/Linux, so cross platform compatibility is something I've always had my eye on. I can't say when though, in all honesty an iPhone version is far more likely to come before Android or Win8.

iPhone version awaited! :) The app does seem nice and handy. A better icon and nicer website would help though not a big deal.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by mickrobk » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

flyosity wrote: post #17

This looks like a really wonderful app, but the icon needs a lot of work. Maybe export a beautiful, colorful world as the icon and have it look sort of abstract? A big ugly S is something I really don't want on my home screen, to be completely honest.

Appreciate the feedback - at the very least though it's better than the development version:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sketchologyapp/static/img/old-icon.p...

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by tsenkov » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:26 PM UTC

Looks great. Congrats!

Funny thing that came to me about an artist using it, falling into "recursion stack overflow":

- This is it, it's finished... Wait, I can make this beautiful picture as only a detail of a greater, bigger and better masterpiece? (3h later) This is it, it's finished... etc. :)

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by bennyg » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

Looks awesome! I can't wait to get my hands on an iPad at work and download it. I love vector drawing/illustrating - and based on your other comments, I'm hoping there's some export functionality (even as svg) in the near future so I can edit my creations on the internet. Your demo illustrations look amazing too - nice artistic touch.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by fwdbureau » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

First, congrats on the app and the selling method. Free trial and extras for sale are definitively a honest way to go on the app store! I understand it's hard to export a svg, but how about exporting a hi-res picture? When choosing 'save image', the super resolution option disappears, and zooming before saving exports only a partial tile. It would be great to be able to save a huge picture, for pro printing, for instance

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Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by honzzz » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:31 PM UTC

It would be nice to indicate in a title that the link is only useful for people with specific platform. It's kind of disappointing to go there and find out I cannot try it because I don't have that kind of device. Something like "Show HN: Sketchology [iOS]" or "The thing [Android]" or something like that could be helpful.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by mickrobk » Wed, Oct 23, 2013, 2:33 PM UTC

fwdbureau wrote: post #26

First, congrats on the app and the selling method. Free trial and extras for sale are definitively a honest way to go on the app store! I understand it's hard to export a svg, but how about exporting a hi-res picture? When choosing 'save image', the super resolution option disappears, and zooming before saving exports only a partial tile. It would be great to be able to save a huge picture, for pro printing, for inst…

Definitely - it's on the todo list!