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Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and
Slack
Author : jazzychad
Score : 167 points
Date : 2021-08-31 17:36 UTC (16 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (stickerdoodle.app)
(TXT) w3m dump (stickerdoodle.app)
| kinduff wrote:
| The press kit made me lol, specially the image you picked for
| yourself.
|
| Great job on the app!
| easton wrote:
| Whoa! I watched that WWDC session.
|
| Is there a story behind the Newton?
| 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!
| [deleted]
| 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.
| arittr wrote:
| As great as the feature is (and I've always wanted to be able to
| easily create Stickers) the best thing about this is the obvious
| love and care that went into the app. 10/10.
|
| Inspiring to see a "hobby" project at this level of polish. Thank
| you.
| 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.
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| 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 :)
| lloydatkinson wrote:
| Would it support Messenger?
| exportsmedia wrote:
| When I sent the sticker to another device it showed up as a
| broken thumbnail, is there something else I need to do to make
| the sticker show up on the divide I send it to?
| jazzychad wrote:
| hmm, is it possible to send me a screenshot of the other
| device (to the email in my profile)? it could be a couple
| different things happening, easier to diagnose if I can see.
| mrlagmer wrote:
| Very cool app. My kids will love this. I will be unlocking it
| for them nice work on the family sharing.
| 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.
| 2muchcoffeeman wrote:
| I wish I thought of this. Then I could quit my job.
| sintezcs wrote:
| A great app! But why Telegram is not supported? It's one of the
| most popular messages nowadays
| dudus wrote:
| Are stickers the new Emojis? Every app seem to have a slightly
| different implementation and they don't really interoperate well.
|
| Can 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
| blengert wrote:
| In case you are interested in adding WhatsApp sticker support,
| here is the link to the client side code for iOS:
| https://github.com/WhatsApp/stickers/blob/main/iOS/README.md
| zaik wrote:
| https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0449.html
|
| Now we just have to wait until people leave walled gardens like
| Slack and Discord and start using the Internet standard for IM.
| mafriese wrote:
| I think the problem with emojis is that everyone has the same
| options to pick from - if you have stickers you can express
| yourself in a way that fits more your own style(?)
| pgib wrote:
| This is great! If I create a sticker on one device, will it sync
| via iCloud to my other devices?
| mafriese wrote:
| yep
| mafriese wrote:
| Your app feels really clean! I like the dropping buttons when you
| want to delete a sticker and the sticker effect when you view a
| sticker and you pull it up or down. iCloud Sync also works like a
| charm! Hope you manage to get Whatsapp support in the near future
| ;)
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