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Now, that is something really cool, pity we didn't had something like that on BBS days.
Antique furniture meant something- it was done by hand. Same with ASCii- you could respect that it took some time to make it. What respect and feeling will there be for work in the future? Everything generated or thought cheaply generated on whims. Everything throwaway.
Will love to buy this once I get my Mac. Looks great, and also love the perpetual license for $9.99 rather than the host of subscription services, i'll probably end up buying it just to support good practices.
That's cool … but we're calling buying an app licensing it now? That word is a red flag for me — wondering what dark pattern is awaiting, finding myself digging for the fine print…
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> Monodraw does not use activation or any other form of DRM. We have complete trust in our customers. Interesting. But, why?
Any time spent on copy protection is time not spent on improving the product for the paying customers. I find it unlikely that such copy protection would actually convert a non-paying user into a customer. I also don't want to make the software network dependent in any way.
I used to think that but then kept tripping across customers who ran multiple copies of my software after purchasing a single license. I now wish I'd tightened the DRM from the start.
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Windows version in the future?
There are no current plans but never say never (the app is 100% AppKit, so porting means a full rewrite). I wish I had the time to port it to all three desktop OSes.
Bought this couple months ago, and am now always looking for more ways to include this for inline-documentation. the fact i can export to clipboard and re-import it and reconstruct all the shapes etc. almost flawlessly is such a big win.
Job Lifecycle: https://hexdocs.pm/oban/job_lifecycle.html
Composition: https://oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6.4/composition.html
Very nice.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8433417 - oct 09 2014
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545252 - may 14 2015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27832910 - july 14 2021
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32134469 - july 18 2022
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39651796 - march 9 2024
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45037904 - 1 year ago
and the some
all of these gained interest, so my conclusion is Monodraw benefits a lot from being regularly exposed to HN crowd.
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There are no current plans but never say never (the app is 100% AppKit, so porting means a full rewrite). I wish I had the time to port it to all three desktop OSes.
as a noob Swift dev (Swiftie?) , why AppKit over SwiftUI? Maturity of former?
Bought this couple months ago, and am now always looking for more ways to include this for inline-documentation. the fact i can export to clipboard and re-import it and reconstruct all the shapes etc. almost flawlessly is such a big win.
On one hand, this could provide a lot of value as some things are just plain hard to explain using only words. On the other hand, aren't you worried about when someone else comes along and needs to update one of those comments? If they're not aware of this tool, it's either going to be incredibly tedious or simply not going to happen.