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Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by fwdbureau »

mickrobk wrote: post #30
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!

yay! In the meantime there's always the possibility to export to web, save the tiles one by one on your HD and reassemble them in Photoshop like a puzzle. Quite a fun operation

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by AlexDanger »

Well done. After a couple of minutes playing with it i see your app has nuggets of subtle UX brilliance. I think my favourite is the eraser and how it responds when you start erasing faster....

Also very alluring marketing.

Best of luck, I hope you do well, you clearly have vision. Your app made me smile.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by incision »

Looks very neat, I'm disappointed that's it's apparently iPad only. I'd love to give it a try next to Sketchbook Ink [0] on my Android devices.

Though, I have to say, I'm growing really weary of dramatic copy that insists on telling me how "beautiful" (4x) everything is.

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adsk.sketc...

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by unwind »

mickrobk wrote: post #12
andrew_gardener wrote: post #9

So does the tool just abstract pixels or is it using Vectors? If it is vectors, what kinds of tools does it offer for exporting? Note that I'm not into designing at all but I might suggest this to a friend for their projects

It's fully vector but you cannot export to SVG or any other open formats due to the performance difference between Sketchology and other vector apps. (More than 100x even against x86 hardware.) You can export to web[0], which creates a zoomable raster copy of the drawing, but this is obviously limited to getting an editable vector copy. [0] For example: http://www.sketchologyapp.com/u/sketchology/18

Due to the what? It's not up to the application to decide if its data is useful in other applications or not, that's just ... silly lock-in talk. Quite an annoying attitude, if that's representative.

Luckily I a) can't draw and b) don't have an iPad so I'm not a lost customer.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by aidos »

mickrobk wrote: post #19
aidos wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Congratulations, it looks really nice. Are you going to be sharing the details of how you've done it or will it remain secret? Just interested because I've done a lot of work with large svgs (sometimes million+ nodes) over the last year (for an ongoing project) so I'm well aware of the performance issues you mentioned.

Thanks! I want to talk about it - I think it's probably the coolest part of the program. It's difficult though, I left my job about 2 years ago to work on this so commercial success is a definite goal. Hopefully sometime in the future I'll be able to give out algorithmic details without compromising that.

Totally understandable. I'm in a similar position myself (though in a completely different space).

If you ever decided the secret was too much to bear and you'd like to get it off your chest you could always drop me an email (in my profile) and we could discuss it :)

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by [deleted] »

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.

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Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by mortenjorck »

mickrobk wrote: post #23
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...

How about a big S made out of a colorful cluster of microscopic creatures (like the zooming demo image)?

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by chrisdevereux »

honzzz wrote: post #29

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.

Not useful doesn't imply not interesting.

Having the 'Show HN' posts all tagged with platforms would sorta make me feel like I'm in a supermarket, skipping past the isles containing stuff I'm not going to walk out with.

Re: Show HN: Sketchology

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Post by gnufied »

mickrobk wrote: post #23
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...

Does it require any special pen or works with hand? Looks pretty sweet btw.
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