Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by anairs » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:43 PM UTC

Hands down Miro has been a great tool for.What I really liked about Miro is that it has a desktop app which makes it really snappy, its simple and intuitive to use and has great collaboration features (stickies, comments, notes etc.)

hope that helps

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by cygned » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:44 PM UTC

iandanforth wrote: post #4

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

We use Miro for backlog grooming and idea visualization. The Jira sync is very helpful for us.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by aeonsky » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:50 PM UTC

murkle wrote: post #3

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

The second I'm presented with a pop-up as the first thing on a website, I close out.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by jacobn » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:51 PM UTC

aaronharnly wrote: post #14

rubayeet wrote: post #6

Google Jamboard + Wacom Intuos tablet with stylus [1] [1] https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuo...

Which hardware are you using exactly? There are a lot of different price points; I’d love to find the cheapest that is still good enough to be useful.

While not the cheapest, we use it on iPad Pros with styluses - works pretty well.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by finaliteration » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:53 PM UTC

aaronharnly wrote: post #15

I’d love to hear what hardware people are using. I’m looking at buying hardware for some of our team, but obviously woild like to find the right cost/quality ratio.

I’ve been using a Wacom Intuos S combined with Microsoft Whiteboard. The Intuos wasn’t outrageously expensive and has been working really well for my needs (mostly just process and class diagrams during online architecture discussions).

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by sidcool » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

Mural

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by matdehaast » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

sixhobbits wrote: post #9

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

We use room. Love it and the founders are super helpful if you run into issues

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by karaterobot » Fri, May 22, 2020, 2:59 PM UTC

Figma. It's not all that useful for actually mimicking a whiteboard, in the sense of drawing arbitrary shapes with a pen. It has a pencil tool, but it's not great. Fortunately, most of what we do is drawing rectangles with text in them and lines between them, and it's pretty good at that. Plus, it supports undo with cmd-z, which most whiteboard apps don't seem to.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by tyingq » Fri, May 22, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

wortelefant wrote: post #13

Mural.co - other than miro, it allows unlimited anonymous co-editing without a need to sihn on. Since we use it only occasionally, we just have a single facilitator account for the team

Mural's MS Teams integration looks pretty good too. I imagine they will get a fair amount of sales based on that.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Post by sixdimensional » Fri, May 22, 2020, 3:07 PM UTC

Prior HN on shared whiteboards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22675247