Drawbang
Creative
pixel art editor
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
4 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 4 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.07.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea, pixel art suits the picture-feed format
From 2 comments
Very cool. I've had the idea of transforming http://www.patternify.com/ into something like this for a long time, but I'm glad somebody else did it :)
sgdesign on HNAwesome. I think the format (picture feed) has the potential to work across a bunch of verticals - movie posters (to get movie recommendations), art (to get gallery…
dcaranda on HN
Could build an interesting community
From 1 comment
Very nice! I can imagine this app will get many users and create interesting community. And I think that initial paying model unnecessarily limits potential users since there…
t_hozumi on HN
Objections
Not similar enough to Instagram; the Instagram comparison is misleading
From 2 comments
Oh come on. "Instagram for pixel art"? When will the baity associations end. The description on the app store sums it up perfectly - "Draw! is a pixel art editor. Draw 16 x 16…
highace on HNI agree. I'm not sure how this is at all like Instagram. Is it because there is a feed? Then why not the Twitter for pixel art?
jgv on HN
Price too high at launch; free tier would aid growth
From 3 comments
I really like this idea! However, I think the value of this really lies in building a community of users that share their drawings. That's what makes instagram really great and…
monatron on HNLooks nice but started too expensive. Why don't you put it free to get user acquisition and then you raise the price ?
gfalcao on HNVery nice! I can imagine this app will get many users and create interesting community. And I think that initial paying model unnecessarily limits potential users since there…
t_hozumi on HN
Content creation may be too hard to build a steady feed
From 2 comments
Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough to create a stream…
unalone on HNHi, we made an app called Tinygram (http://tiny.by) that I think is more Instagramm-y (uggh!) than this. Its not done yet (missing a few big features) but it has a smaller canvas…
fufulabs on HN
Requests
Android version
From 1 comment
Sweet. Any chance for Android version?
ArekDymalski on HN
Public gallery and editing others' animations
From 1 comment
That kind of honesty my friend, will gain you enemies. In other news I think it is missing features to be a commercial product; I don't know too much about iOS but if maybe you…
jQueryIsAwesome on HN
Custom canvas size and emoticon export
From 1 comment
That kind of honesty my friend, will gain you enemies. In other news I think it is missing features to be a commercial product; I don't know too much about iOS but if maybe you…
jQueryIsAwesome on HN
Questions
Why the restrictive colour palette
From 1 comment
Nice idea! What are other similar apps that did this? (Assuming you did research). I see bsaul did something similar but he used geolocation as sharing platform…interesting… And…
justjimmy on HN
How will the maker encourage enough content for a feed
From 1 comment
Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough to create a stream…
unalone on HN
Alternatives named
Tinygram (10x10 pixel art social app)
From 1 comment
Hi, we made an app called Tinygram (http://tiny.by) that I think is more Instagramm-y (uggh!) than this. Its not done yet (missing a few big features) but it has a smaller canvas…
fufulabs on HN
16color.com
From 1 comment
Just as a reference point, this brought to mind an old app (in the desktop sense) from 2001 - http://www.16color.com/ The site is still up, and they claim 40,000 movies were…
tomwalsham on HN
World of Pictos
From 1 comment
Hey, i did https://itunes.apple.com/app/world-of-pictos-by-simple-app/id473964357 , please contact me using the "contact" if interested...
bsaul on HN