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Ask HN: Review my startup: http://sparkwall.me
Hi All,
Just released our private beta of Sparkwall and we would love to hear your feedback!
Sparkwall is a visual collaboration tool that helps remote dev and creative teams communicate by sharing designs in real time.
The app is built on node.js, socket.io and MongoDB using Amazon EC2 and S3 for hosting and storage.
Some of our features:
- Upload files through drag-and-drop
- Support for 300 different image formats
- Write text and draw freely.
- 16000x9000px work space
- Point with your mouse, and ppl can see it in real-time <-- I like this feature :)
We are currently running on Firefox 4 and Chrome 8+ (Other browsers will be supported shortly)
Invitation Code: HACKERNEWS
Sign up: http://sparkwall.me
Thanks
Johan Ekhager
Co-founder / CTO
http://sparkwall.me
- JohanE 15y agoLink: http://sparkwall.me http://sparkwall.me
- joezhou 15y agoamazing! Google docs watch out this is way cooler
- JohanE 15y agoThanks! :) Any other thoughts about the funtionality?
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- dangrossman 15y agoI recall something exactly like this on HN a few weeks ago, public with a unique URL for each wall, except it didn't have shared mouse pointers. What was that post?
- oberglof 15y agowould be really interesting to find out
- JohanE 15y agoInteresting. Couldn't find any post of it. If someone remember the name or post, please reply here. Good to know about similar products. :)
- dangrossman 15y agoHere it is: http://corkboard.me/Ix1gsxLPuz http://corkboard.me/Ix1gsxLPuz http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486982 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962554 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1962554
- JohanE 15y agoOh, thanks alot! Will check it out.
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- instakill 15y agoLooks good. The creative team at our digital agency love it.
- JohanE 15y agoThanks! Would be great to hear their thoughts aswell, if you don't mind.
- swanson 15y agoAre you using node.js for the whole stack? Or is there a Rails app running alongside for doing user accounts, payments, the marketing site/landing page etc?
- JohanE 15y agoIt's all built on node.js. We used rails before to handle user accounts and static pages but realized we could make it all with node.js and MongoDB instead with some cool template language. :)
- swanson 15y agoAre you using a library for the user stuff in mongo/node, if you don't mind me asking? I haven't found anything that seems better than devise/cancan.
- JohanE 15y agoWe've built a lot on our own. Maybe Senchalabs Connect can help you, otherwise check https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/modules. Don't know if it's better than devise/cancan though.
- Omni5cience 15y agoDevise and Cancan are User Authentication middleware for Rails Check out https://github.com/ciaranj/connect-auth https://github.com/ciaranj/connect-auth I can't vouch for the effectiveness, but it seems to be under active development.
- ffumarola 15y agoI like it. Good MVP. I could see my ecommerce company using it. What features are you planning on rolling out?
- JohanE 15y agoThanks! Just curious, how do you think you would use it? New features are coming, support for safari, IE9, iPad/iPhone and Android and then make current functionality smarter and better. We will also listen to users so they can say what they want us to focus on.
- ffumarola 15y agoOur designers frequently mock up designs for new features / versions of the site. They then get email responses that say X,Y, and Z (multiple times from different people). Sometimes they get conflicting X-1 and X-2. With this I could see them sharing the wall with everyone and then getting collaborative feedback from all of the stakeholders. What features specifically are you implementing? I would like undo, redo, step backward, step forward, and a better way to manage text.
- amourgh 15y agoi need an invite code to sign up could u send me please one : amourgh@gmail.com
- JohanE 15y agoYou're invited!
- anselmo_silva 15y agoAn absolutely thumbs up for the idea behind. It looks so well executed on a beautiful refined layout. Success.
- JohanE 15y agoThanks for those warming words! :) Invite your friends/co-workers! And if you want to give more feedback, contact me at johan@sparkwall.me. //Johan
- Omni5cience 15y agoI'm curious if you were inspired by Jef Raskin and the ZUI