webdemo.myscript.com
Productivity
presentation builder
SHOW HN2018
163points
37comments
#239of 2,155 in 2018
Top 12%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
10 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 6 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Design: 1 for, 5 againstIdea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 2 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Handwriting recognition is very accurate
From 3 comments
I'm very impressed... I added a new slide to the demo. Then I tried my best to legibly write "TEST SLIDE" with a simple smiling face underneath. When I clicked preview, my poorly…
skibz on HNThe handwriting recognition is very good. The "diagram block" recognition not so.
amelius on HNBoth are much better than I would've expected to be fair, but yeah the block recognition is still slightly short of usable. The handwriting recognition is amazing.
lucideer on HN
Impressive and useful demo
From 3 comments
This is absolute witchcraft. SOooo amazing - keep up the great work!
bananatron on HNMuch needed. I usually draw them into a tablet, export them as images and then put them into slides. This is much neater. I couldn't test it in a tablet right now. How does it do…
lewisjoe on HNlove it
umtksa on HN
Objections
Back button history hijacking breaks navigation
From 4 comments
Interesting but a small annoyance is the evil destruction of history/back button functionality - totally unnecessary and is either manipulative or inept.
nmstoker on HNI accidentally clicked this link, got trapped, and came back here just to say the same thing. Any page that acts like this is simply dead to me.
petee on HNUsing this on Safari on iOS: Every time I tried to swipe Back I would briefly see the HN page, and then it would reload the demo page. It wouldn’t let me swipe Back to HN. Aaaand…
arkades on HNBack button hijacking = not even going to consider this.
xnyan on HN
Diagram block recognition is not good enough
From 2 comments
The handwriting recognition is very good. The "diagram block" recognition not so.
amelius on HNBoth are much better than I would've expected to be fair, but yeah the block recognition is still slightly short of usable. The handwriting recognition is amazing.
lucideer on HN
Saving to PowerPoint does not work on iPad
From 1 comment
Just tried on my iPad. Preview works in both Chrome and Firefox, but neither save (I do have PowerPoint loaded on the iPad and I use it there occasionally.) On Firefox when I…
MrTonyD on HN
Trackpad drawing is hard without a mouse
From 1 comment
Aw man, I don't have a mouse or trackball with me today. The trackpad sucks for drawing. I wish there was something I could do in freehand drawing interfaces that assumed…
thanatropism on HN
Requests
Add text input option
From 2 comments
Wow, this is the first time I actually want to get a pad! If not in your plans: - Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop. - In the current and past companies…
ellimilial on HNJust suggestion: since most people (esp at work) use traditional setup (keyboard+mouse), I think it'd be better if people can type for text instead of drawing.
wiradikusuma on HN
Integrate into Google Drive
From 1 comment
Google should integrate this in Drive. It's just too easy to make diagrams this way.
chpmrc on HN
Offline use
From 1 comment
This is a demo for their stroke to text converter. It took me a while to figure that out. I was hoping to run it local to my iPad, so I could create slides on my long plane…
MrTonyD on HN
Questions
What browser was used and does back button fail
From 2 comments
What browser are you using? in safari the back button worked fine for me.
sgillen on HNThe back button worked just fine for me on Chrome.
forrest92 on HN
How does it work on a tablet with hand drawing
From 1 comment
Much needed. I usually draw them into a tablet, export them as images and then put them into slides. This is much neater. I couldn't test it in a tablet right now. How does it do…
lewisjoe on HN
Alternatives named
Lucidchart
From 1 comment
Disclaimer: I work at Lucid Lucidchart is a much better and feature rich platform than draw.io and allows for creating slides and exporting them to Google slides. You'll have to…
10000100001010 on HN
draw.io
From 1 comment
Wow, this is the first time I actually want to get a pad! If not in your plans: - Could use a text input, otherwise pretty hard on desktop. - In the current and past companies…
ellimilial on HN
Nebo
From 1 comment
How different is this from the Nebo technology? Sounded great but in practice was too fiddly. Why not allow scanned documents to be OCR'ed to diagram + text. Thats the killer…
mintyc on HN
onthesamepage.online
From 2 comments
Looks great! I recently tried to make something similar where one could simultaneously sketch on a tablet and on a laptop - https://onthesamepage.online/about
zserge on HNI don't want to be that shameless, but https://onthesamepage.online does just that. I use it for sketching diagrams and mind maps daily. Not for presentations, but can export to…
zserge on HN
Moleskine digital notes
From 1 comment
You should partner with Moleskine. They already have a platform for taking notes in handwriting form and digitizes them, but taking them directly from Moleskine to Ppt. I would…
Peopleguyintech on HN