[HN Gopher] Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage... ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack Author : jazzychad Score : 53 points Date : 2021-08-31 17:36 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (stickerdoodle.app) (TXT) w3m dump (stickerdoodle.app) | werber wrote: | I would love to be able to make stickers on my iPad and use them | on my iPhone. But even without the pencil my first sticker looks | terrific! Great job on this!! | jazzychad wrote: | This should certainly work already if your iPad and iPhone are | logged in to the same iCloud account. The stickers should sync | automatically when you launch the app on the other device. | Please let me know if it's not working for you! | pimlottc wrote: | Wow, very polished! The UX looks and feels great. The 3D sticker | effect is really cool and fun. The first time hints are effective | and it's really easy and quick to start making real stickers. | Kudos! | | A few bits of feedback: - after zooming in photo mode, I | naturally tried to pan to get my object in view, but that quickly | created a path and then immediately went into the save screen, | which was jarring. I know it tells you to try but panning and | zooming is just second nature. Maybe show a message if the path | drawing time is very short? | | - tracing a photo is harder than the demo makes it look! The zoom | view is very helpful here but it is still a very painstaking | process, and if you mess up, you have to start over. I was hoping | that it would use my path as a start and automatically refine it | but nope. | | - if the photo path starts in the upper left, the zoom is | blocked. Perhaps you can move it automatically if needed. | | - took me a moment to figure out how to copy a sticker for use in | Signal. I expected to be able to long press on the sticker and | get a context menu, but that doesn't work. You have to go to | "options" which is not immediately obvious. Also, having to pick | a image size is not something most users want to think about, | they just want to copy and paste like text. | jazzychad wrote: | Thanks for the kind words and feedback! | | Yeah, the photo tracing experience is the most contentious part | of the app. Lots of similar feedback from lots of people. I | will be improving that in the coming updates. The zoom/pan is | definitely tricky b/c it conflicts with the drawing gesture, so | panning isn't the easiest thing to accomplish. Again, planning | to rethink how to make that better. | | You should be able to long-press a sticker in the main view and | get the same options menu for copying/etc.... does that work | for you? | | I'm also planning on supporting other messaging services like | WhatsApp, Signal, Telegraph, etc... | pimlottc wrote: | > You should be able to long-press a sticker in the main view | and get the same options menu for copying/etc.... does that | work for you? | | Ah, you're right, it does work in the gallery view, just not | in the detail view where you end up after creating the | sticker. | mft_ wrote: | Only a 5.3MB download for the whole app? Bravo! | jazzychad wrote: | Thanks! I worked pretty hard to keep out all the cruft that | lots of apps seem to have now. I wanted it to be used all | around the world, so I wanted to be respectful of everyone's | data limits and ensure it could be easily downloaded by as many | people as possible. | jazzychad wrote: | Hi HN, I hope you will enjoy this app. I was inspired to make it | because my daughter likes to make little doodles on my iPad, and | I thought it would be fun to add a "sticker" effect so they stand | out better against a solid background... then I thought it would | be fun to turn it into a Messages sticker app; next thing you | know Sticker Doodle was born. | | I launched the app with translations in English, Spanish, German, | Italian, Arabic, Japanese, and Chinese. Everything is stored and | sync'd with iCloud, and there is full support for dynamic text | sizes and light/dark mode. I took great care to make it an app | everyone around the world could use and enjoy. | | I'm happy to answer questions or take feedback! Lots of features | and updates already added to the todo list :) | laosb wrote: | As a user since your beta on Airport: Congratulations for making | it on App Store! Just to let you know that Telegram has client- | side API (and SDK) for creating sticker packs - hope you can | support it! | laosb wrote: | Er forgot the link to doc: https://core.telegram.org/import- | stickers | jazzychad wrote: | Great, thank you! I will look at the Telegram API/SDK. | _understood_ wrote: | TAKE MY $2.00!!! | cantoni wrote: | This is really fun to play with, and people love getting custom | stickers. | charlietran wrote: | This is excellent! There used to be a similar app called "Sticky | AI", but the company abandoned it after a while and the backend | for the app shut down. This works great and has no external | dependencies. | doomrobo wrote: | Looks very cool! I'm surprised Apple hasn't done this yet. I | predict this will either be shut down or bought. | dudus wrote: | Are stickers the new Emojis? Every app seem to have a slightly | different implementation and they don't really interoperate well. | | An this tool be used for WhatsApp stickers? And how different are | Slack and Discord Stickers? | | i wonder if we'll see some standardization in the future akin to | the addition of emojis to Unicode. | okdjnfweonfe wrote: | stickers are the half-way point between images and emoji, as | in, bigger emoji, usually sent without a message. | | Some platforms upgrade emoji to stickers when used solo | (telegram for example) | | there isn't anything majorly special about them on any platform | AFAIK ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-08-31 23:01 UTC)