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> If there’s drawing we have an app that we use where anyone can draw and anyone can see what’s being drawn.

somebody had success with such draw apps? this is a missing piece for us

With close to a decade of remote work experience under my belt at companies that are more than 50% remote (GitHub) down to being the only remote guy, I have concluded that some things are best left in the physical world...

There is an actual whiteboard on my wall and a webcam on a stand. When I want to whiteboard something, I get up, switch camera angles, and literally draw it out. I have found this to be far more productive than any whiteboard apps out there.

For something more interactive, Google Draw isn't awful, but it's not a pen and paper.

Thanks for commenting! That's true, I do have a whiteboard within arms reach in my home office. Sometimes I'll take a picture of it and send it along when talking about a problem.

Haven't had success here either, generally I'll use a whiteboard or a piece of paper and show it to my web cam.

If I have more time I'll throw something together in Illustrator. Would be nice to have something more collaborative.

So just googling around I found this and it seems to work pretty good. https://awwapp.com/b/u21itcedr/

So you're vouching for a product you haven't used?

Hard to imagine anyone on the internet doing such a thing.

Sorry that was clickbate to see if we could all get going in a drawing frenzy...seems to have worked lol We have some artists on here.

I had really good luck with the one built into google hangouts. I think it depends on what you're trying to convey. Sometimes just sharing mockups works really well too.

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