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Thanks malloryerik! Yeah, easiest is really just an iframe. When you create a new web room, the url will be https://app.grapic.co/room/<room id>. If you instead use https://app.grapic.co/embed/<room id> it will render a slightly more minimal version that looks better as an embed.

Thanks!

Thanks! Let us know how it works for you!

I like your tool rajeevk. Will definitely have a try!

I remember those projectors fondly too. I guess it was a hassle to keep all the pages in order during a presentation and so on but they were also so flexible. Super easy to just draw on top of a picture.

So happy you like the tool and find it exciting! So do we =)

Hi HN,

During the pandemic, two friends and I built Grapic [1], an AR app to let us use real paper and whiteboards to brainstorm when working remote. We're all visual thinkers and found the drawing part really lacking in tools like Miro.

The aim is to make it possible to screen share any real surface. We use AR and some computer vision to let you mark a rectangle on a flat surface (like a whiteboard or paper notebook), and then stream a stabilized and "flattened" version of that surface as video. The video can either be shared as to a webRTC room that you can access with a link or directly into a zoom meeting over Airplay [2].

The app is currently iOS only and we're holding off an Android version until we know there is sufficient demand.

We would be super thankful for any feedback or advice!

Best

Niko

[1] Grapic website: https://www.grapic.co/

[2] Note: There is unfortunately a bug in Zoom on macOS Monterey where Airplay to Mac interferes with Zooms Airplay screen sharing. Zoom is working on a fix but in the meantime there is a workaround: https://www.grapic.co/zoom-troubleshooting

For longer sessions I tend to use a tripod, or a coffee cup, for sure. One thing we've noticed when using it ourselves is that as the stabilization and other details got better holding the phone started to take less and less mental energy. Also, in practice I'm actually only drawing for quite short spurts when talking, so I often just skip the tripod and just pick up the phone when I'm about to draw.

Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words!

For us I guess the need arose in a pure remote environment. But none of us had ipads to draw on at that time. Totally agree on the mixed / hybrid work setup though. I think I've had a million awkward meetings around a whiteboard with one or two remote team members trying to see what was going on with a laptop camera pointed to the whiteboard.

We realized quite quickly that we need good integrations for this tool to be really useful and we'd really love to have integrations with Teams and Meet as well. Those services are much tougher to get video into though but hopefully we can have something there relatively soon. Another cool use-case we think is together with digital whiteboards like Miro or FigJam. We have a pretty cool FigJam integration coming up which we're hoping will be a really nice experience.