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tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
TaqPolymerase · 2 months ago
Super useful and a great price. Added to my Login Items and remapped some of the extra modifier keys on my Keychron Q11 for even easier access to Draw/HUD. Perhaps one nice-to-have would be an indicator that 'Draw' is active so I know what my next click is going to do (maybe the menu icon changes?). Thank you!
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
Thank you for your feedback! That's a great idea, I'll look into it :)
tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
neilellis · 2 months ago
Great, perfect, bought it.
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
Thank you! I'd love to know about your experience using it. If you have any questions, comments, feature ideas, feel free to reach out via the support email :)
tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
K3UL · 2 months ago
Is there any plan for a Windows version ? This is so useful
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
Thank you! Yes, a Windows release is coming! Perhaps not for at least a month but it's definitely on my roadmap :)
tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
alyxya · 2 months ago
I really like the homepage. It’s clear what the product does just after a few seconds and looks nice and smooth :)

I’m curious if the annotation handles things like scrolling within a webpage. That would be a really cool feature if annotations automatically moved with the scroll.

tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
Thank you for the feedback! At the moment it's not scroll-aware, but it's an excellent idea, thank you.

I won't be able to make it app-aware, given the very rigid security posture (complete sandbox), but I may be able to make it scroll-aware, so at least within the same window it'd move relative to the 'global' position. I'll look into it :)

tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
alsetmusic · 2 months ago
I think you should indicate this above or below the demo in a smallish typeface. Your explanation makes sense, but the presentation comes off as sketchy without that info. Maybe it's just me. Thanks for responding.
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
That is a great idea! I'll add that, thank you :)
tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
alsetmusic · 2 months ago
The letters keep drawing after the mouse pointer stops moving. Is there such thing as an autocompleting typeface that recognizes handwriting from a Wacom tablet or something to explain this? If not, this demo doesn't seem authentic and that doesn't inspire confidence.
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
Hey, thanks for the feedback, the cursor movement is smoothed out in the screen recording tool.

I tried to strike a balance, original videos felt a bit too distracting with unfiltered cursor movements.

tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
lasergyro · 2 months ago
What about a control center toggle? Works alright for toggling the windowing system. In general having shortcuts to set it on/off/toggle would be great.
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
This might work! I'll implement this and see how it feels, thanks.
tomaszsobota commented on Show HN: HUD-like live annotation and sketching app for macOS   draw.wrobele.com/... · Posted by u/tomaszsobota
TuringNYC · 2 months ago
i'd love this for the iPad, i'd buy it right away but didnt see it for the iPad -- mostly because writing with a mouse is very difficult, but pens are easy
tomaszsobota · 2 months ago
And I'd love to make it for iPads too, just struggling to find the optimal UX for enabling and disabling the overlay.

On macOS you can just use the global hotkey or the app menu, on iPad I'd have to wire it up somehow else - supper happy to get ideas on what would feel seamless and unobtrusive for you. I'll definitely implement it then!

tomaszsobota commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss   techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer
rajaman0 · 3 months ago
Consumer brand quality is so massively underrated by tech people.

ChatGPT has a phenomenal brand. That's worth 100x more than "product stickiness". They have 700 million weekly users and growing much faster than Google.

I think your points on Google being well positioned are apt for capitalization reasons, but only one company has consumer mindshare on "AI" and its the one with "ai" in its name.

tomaszsobota · 3 months ago
> ChatGPT has a phenomenal brand. That's worth 100x more than "product stickiness". They have 700 million weekly users

I don't think majority of those 700m people use the product because of the brand. Products are a non-trivial contributor to the brand.

Also, if it were phenomenal, they wouldn't be called ClosedAI ;)

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