matb33

Built one too, but with Meteor. I actually create a login for you automatically with auto-generated username and you can rename your username if you care. Also can copy paste images, not just drag drop

http://sket.sh/

So someone made one, cool! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051047

Maybe it's a matter of adjusting some copy... "Show HN" was appropriate when HN consisted of its higher quality membership. You were showing your project to people who were more likely to provide better quality feedback.

Now that the population has grown, there are more commenters and more Show HNs, yet the presentation hasn't changed to accommodate this (same number of posts per page, same comment layout despite more comments, etc).

Maybe something like "Review HN"? Whatever it would be, it may be time to get more specific. Ultimately you're trying to filter out unhelpful comments. Those will always appear, but now there's just more of them in the same space...

I turned that feature off because of Markdown. To force a carriage return, you need to have two spaces at the end of the line.

This is the way to go, and really not that hard to implement for the library developers

I'd love to see a videoconferencing solution for cheap that dedicates a full wall of your home office (projector and hd camera combo) mirrored to a similar wall at the office, always on. I know there are expensive 100K type solutions out there, but I think a simple kit could be pulled off.

If someone wanted to do a quick face to face, they'd just walk up to your wall and start talking :) Additionally you could link walls with other remote workers or other wall set-ups elsewhere in the main office.

Edit: a mini short-throw projector would work well here

Edit2: for privacy, since this setup would be always on, you could switch to "closed door mode" which would project a wall and door picture instead. Perhaps the camera on the office end could detect using kinect style magic when someone knocks on your "door" :)

I sent this to some writers at an agency and their immediate feedback was pointing out grammatical errors in your website copy (they pointed out the about page specifically). They are looking at the service in greater depth, but nonetheless this was an immediate turn off for them. It's a classic case of judging a book by its cover, but I admit to doing the same when reading over code or even visiting a site with terrible design...

It would be a good idea to make such corrections considering you are targeting writers! ;)

EDIT: you could spin this by asking for collaboration, using your own tool, for the copy on your About page

I've been waiting for someone to build this... I occasionally googled "markdown track changes" in the hopes that something turned up.

My need for such a service stemmed from working at a full-service agency, where website copy would be written in docx, sent to the client for review by email attachment with track changes enabled, then eventually on to the coders to flow in to the site.

It would be so refreshing to receive copy in markdown format instead of poorly utilized docx files! (It drives me nuts seeing headings done by bolding and increasing size...). In the meantime I wrote a decent XSLT to transform docx to markdown... But ideally everyone in the chain would be using markdown.

If Draft could make this type of workflow more appealing than passing around docx files by email, I'm sure you'd get many agencies jumping on this service. Good money to be made there.

I wonder how well it can perform for amputees. I'm guessing there is HUGE potential here, one that a Leap Motion simply can't compete with.

Is it retina? I'm worried about how tiny everything will be... I haven't found anything concrete about how Unity handles high dpi

Edit: you said MBA, I read MBP... Nevermind, no retina :)

Feedback: 1) Uploaded signature via smartphone option, which is great! But cropping was very difficult. Can you make that window bigger? It was like.. 100x100

2) The bounding box for the select tool may have been imprecise -- my scan for my initials had lots of whitespace above it.

3) At one point I tried to do a rotate, and it failed, bringing me back to the screen to re-email my signature. But the Next button was gone

So far so good, this is awesome.

Does a URL shortener service exist that compresses the URL instead? It wouldn't be as short of course, but then you could recover the original URL yourself if the service is down. A browser could, should this become a popular enough method, be capable of detecting such compressed URLs and doing the decompression and redirect

Fork a recipe, pun intended? ;)

Edit: call it gitmeafork.com! (sorry for the bad joke!)

Ah I see where you're coming from. The list I was speaking of originally was a wishlist. It wasn't a "buy only these things or you're no longer family" ;) Incidentally my app supports "secret gifts". You can enter a surprise gift that everyone but the recipient can see. That avoids duplicate gift buying even when someone else had the same great idea for a "secret gift" that you did :)

I deleted my previous comment as perhaps I am taking your comment too personally.

I agree with you that it is nice to be surprised. I am just pointing out that there are legitimate uses for the "clinical" approach to gift giving: wedding and baby registries are quite common. If you don't know the newlyweds/parents nor the contents of their house very well, the registry can go a long way to giving them a gift that they actually need and will use.

Cheers

The holiday website built in Meteor I was speaking of: http://holiday.mcmillanagency.com/

Wait until you get married, then you'll understand ;) Wedding registries, baby registries... And in many cases that type of gift-giving extends to Christmas and birthdays.

Same here... Over 10 years ago my mom gave me a paper list of gift ideas for the whole family. I was supposed to cross off what I was buying to avoid duplicates. Didn't take long for me to write a web app to manage it. I rewrote it last year after 10+ long years of solid usage: http://www.gifttracker.net/

It's a slightly different take on the wish list "problem" in that mine isn't about getting gift ideas, it's about sharing lists and reserving to avoid duplicates.

Send a screengrab, sketch on it, annotate, all in real-time (using Meteor framework): http://sket.sh/

You could leverage zencoder to generate your thumbnails. Send the job as a test so it's free (limited to 5 seconds but that's ok since we only want thumbnails) and specify your thumbnail settings as desired. You could even set the clip length to one frame so the video encoding step is nearly skipped. Since zencoder runs on AWS, you should get near-LAN transfers between S3 and zencoder

Since discovering Meteor, I haven't bothered using other frameworks anymore (apart from Jekyll for static sites). If it's dynamic in any way, I use Meteor. Once you're used to its paradigms (and quirks), putting something together that ties back- and front-end together is nearly effortless and an absolute joy. I've built several projects so far of various size and complexity, and unlike some of my older projects, jumping back in to add a feature a few months later is just so much easier. Less moving parts... More concise perhaps. Hard to put the experience in words. So far I have two public apps built in Meteor: http://my.groceries.io/ And my favorite for sending screengrabs to coworkers: http://my.sket.sh/

I have another coming soon that hooks Stripe and Zencoder up.

And next week I will be able to share the link to our company's Holiday special website, built with Meteor.

I can't recommend the framework enough, even in these early stages.

I've never tried ArmA with a TrackIR setup but it sounds like it would be kind of annoying, i.e. when moving your head, your screen obviously stays on the desk, so you end up turning your head and looking at the screen from the corner of your eye. I'm sure you can adjust sensitivity, but it sounds pretty awkward nonetheless.

In the case of having the head-mounted display, it makes perfect sense. The immersive experience in first person shooters would benefit tremendously from that separation.

I suppose it's a good idea to let game developers experiment with the various control schemes, just as they did early on with defaults key mappings. Eventually it landed as WASD, Ctrl for crouch, space for jump, etc. I remember using right-click to move forward, inverted mouse, ZX for strafing...

I just have the feeling that "looking where you want to aim" is the totally wrong approach and look forward to game developers settling on a quasi-standard of how it should all work, just as they eventually did with keyboard/mouse mappings.

I'm trying to get a sense as to how exactly the head tracking will correlate with the controls. From the videos I've seen, it looks like the implementations so far have your head movements working in some combination with movements coming from your mouse/game controller.

Maybe it's just me, but I'd much prefer controlling my character's body (i.e. where the gun points) with the traditional controller/mouse, and use head tracking to move my character's head/camera only.

I think it'd be less tiring that way, and probably more immersive too. As I'm moving around in the game world, I could easily look around without changing the direction I'm travelling.

The main reason was the sharing mechanism. When you share your list with someone, you can type in their email even if they don't have a Gift Tracker account. What will then happen is an account will be created for them with no password. When they end up following through on the share link and viewing the list, they'll be using their newly created account.

Near the top of the page, a message will appear suggesting that they lock down their account with a password.

So to answer your question, nothing but knowing the user's email address stops someone from logging into their account.

Cool! I knew I wasn't the only one out there with this need. I wrote something similar over 10 years ago in old school PHP. I rewrote it recently enough for similar reasons as you (practice project). Mine is over at http://www.gifttracker.net/

Shameless plug: I wrote something really similar using Meteor, so the drawings are realtime and you're not limited to the iPhone (but works on it too). I was thinking of adding chat functionality too... Since it works on the desktop, it actually has legit uses like sending previews of works in progress with annotations. Would love to get more feedback though: http://my.sket.sh/

1) http://my.sket.sh/ Paste screengrabs, sketch & add notes, share link with friends (can share read-only version or collaborative version where you can sketch together in realtime)

2) http://my.groceries.io/ Input your grocery stores, then aisles in the order you travel through them. Then make your grocery list and eventually through use remembers which aisles to find your items

3) http://www.gifttracker.net/ Family members each have an account, enter gifts they want, and reserve gifts to avoid duplicates. NB doesn't run under https, been meaning to take care of this. If you want to try it out keep that in mind, pick a test password.

I wrote something similar, but with the added capability of having elements stack against each other as well: https://github.com/matb33/jquery-vertical-stack

Just tried this on my iPhone, the buttons feel native, impressive. Awesome work! Already have a use case for this

I have two as well and the eldest just started the Whys a few weeks ago. Some of my parent-friends with slightly older kids complain about the endless Whys... Maybe I'll get to that same point of annoyance someday (I hope not), but so far I relish the challenge, hoping not to get stumped too quickly!