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New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by Groxx »

(in the FAQ)

  [Q:] It does funny stuff to my other pictures (not drawings).
  [A:] Yes, yes it does. :)
This could open the door to worlds of fun with people who try to push the boundaries... like... I dunno, send back a picture of a garden gnome in a bikini if there's no solid background.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by kyleburton »

theBobMcCormick wrote: post #20

Do you have any thoughts on a future revenue model? Maybe build out some kind of add-on "pro" features?

That is a goal, what kind of things would you look for? What would be worth paying for? Corp/multi user accounts?

Thanks for checking it out!

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by Groxx »

fname wrote: post #7
modoc wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah this seems like a great phase one offering. I'd love to see the features you describe plus maybe some line cleanup (make boxes into boxes), maybe OCR (with PDF return type), etc...

or returning a Visio document back to me would be a complete win

Thereby putting Visio out of business, except as a reader. Definitely a win! Also, Microsoft would probably pay big-$$$ just to bury something like that (possibly putting it into use later in a web app).

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by unshift »

kyleburton wrote: post #15

My apologies to someone, a pic didn't make it back: mattp@a-bb.net had a permanent delivery failure. No idea how to contact them...hope they were here and see this.

that's me! forwarded an old whiteboard pic just to try it out, and didn't notice the reply-to was an old work address that apparently no longer exists. thanks for the heads up!

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by kyleburton »

pook wrote: post #27

This is a great idea! It would be interesting to see this combined with a project management system. I imagine being able to snap your whiteboard, have the image cleaned, and placed right onto a project wiki, in one move (similar to Posterous, perhaps).

Thanks! That's an interesting idea - I know some wikis (like Confluence) can receive emails...I'll put that onto the list.

Re: New service cleans up whiteboard pics with an email

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Post by kyleburton »

fourneau wrote: post #24

Without complicating the service at all, I would love to see Dropbox integration. We use Dropbox for all of our shared files and being able to go from: Whiteboard->Email to Service->Dropbox immediately would be amazing.

Thank you for the idea, I know dropbox has an api. Added to the list, thanks!
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