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RushPL··on Show HN: Magma – Multiplayer AI for Artists
I'm here to answer any questions or comment on feedback. Thanks!
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Can you message me at damian@magmastudio.io and I'll reply with some additional details? :) I'd like to make sure Magma works for you.
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Maybe, let's chat. Email me at damian@magmastudio.io
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
So what could go wrong is lack of permission. Can you try doing "chmod 666 /dev/hidraw*" on root on trying again?
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
All right, you can now go to "Edit -> Connect Stylus". Try reloading if you don't see it. I pray that it works for you. It's still somewhat experimental. :)
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Sorry, forgot to clarify. WebHID is a way to get pressure sensitivity on Linux. It was tested on Wacom One and Intuos Pro. But may work on more tablets.
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
We have an experimental WebHID support for some Wacom tablets. Can you let me know your username? I can enable WebHID for you and will leave you some instructions on how to try it out.
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Took us a few months but we're now wrapping up last investor for our Seed/SAFE round.
RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
We actually have it on the roadmap. Not sure if it will be a file export but imagine being able to share your drawing as GIF timelapse, or being able to go back to any point in your drawing or generate a video from the entire process. Or even use your own drawing flow as a virtual drawing partner.

Thanks for the suggestion!

RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
We actually have 3 co-founders. Radek built aggie.io - it's been online for a few years. He initially built it to draw with his friends from South America. ;) First-hand need for art collaboration hehe.

Wojtek and I were in the meantime building code2flow.com, collaboration solution for diagrams. Also took us a few years.

2 years ago we decided to join forces and built an ultimate art collaboration solution with the experience and codebases from Aggie.io and code2flow.com.

Hard to say how many years ... Definitely over ten thousand of engineering hours but at the same time things were a bit harder few years ago when it comes to browser APIs so if we decided to rebuild it today it could take less time but we would also be more experienced.

Today we're hiring some more people and it's a team effort!

RushPL··on Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation
Thank you so much. :) Yes a lot of development went into it so that drawing experience is top notch. We're now expanding in areas that make it useful for a real production workflow. Game dev seems to be a sweet spot. I've been to GDC and spoke to a lot of people and got really good feedback.
RushPL··on Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014)
Author of code2flow here (https://code2flow.com) - I think you could use my tool to easily create many types of trees. It's not generic, as in, it is focused on charting programs/algorithms and workflows but I've seen people (ab)use it for many different use cases, like so: https://code2flow.com/fRRlCK
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
The free version is perfectly functional. :) Saas version will be affordable once it's done and once it has more features.

Current paid versions are more for bigger teams and companies requiring on premise solution.

RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Great feedback. Thank you. 2) Probably not good for nontechnical people but on the other hand most accurate for technical people. 3) Your point sounds reasonable. How would you describe the need of some companies need to host 100% of their data? Medical companies for example. This is the point I was trying to convey in the pricing. 4) Square is the new web 3.0 :)
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
You're welcome to use the free trial version and I can assure you that the SaaS paid version will be very affordable.

As for $100/$300 pricing, these are on premise business/enterprise versions meant to be used by bigger teams where data confidentiality is crucial.

RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Also, if this product can save more than 3 engineering hours per month for your whole company than I'd say the self-hosted product is totally worth it. Simple math. :)
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to!

The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited)

As for the $100/mo - we do have business/enterprise customers who find lots of value in it. I guess the price has been initially verified by the market so should I justify it?

I guess I can justify the price by saying that the project has taken numerous hours of engineering, testing and experimenting. I think this is natural in pricing models that bigger customers pay more.

If you can do the same in a week than good for you.

Peace and take care :)

RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Indeed, it does look a bit weird in that case. On the other hand check out this flowchart https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ - the same thing looks very clear here.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
I don't have anything large at hand that I can share. Here is a small real-world use case https://code2flow.com/wclEvF - and this is another https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ In the latter example, please note that "Update failed: flash error" generates only one node in the flowchart.

The most complex flowcharts were created by customers and testers but I don't want to expose their data. They have hundreds of lines of code resulting in huge diagrams.

RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
There is Sass version in the works that will be probably $10/mo - still working on the features and billing.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Nice, thanks for sharing. :)
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
I see, this arguably makes such loops easier to follow. I'll look into making it optional though.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
I'm glad you like it. I just deployed a fix that should address the download problem. Cheers.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
I just wrote you an email but I'm replying here as well. If you just need to make some flowcharts they will not have a code2flow stamp in any of the pricing tiers. Maybe except free trial, but it does not watermark the output either yet. You are welcome to use the free trial until we have a paid SaaS or buy the basic self-hosted version.

The enterprise version is for companies embedding code2flow in their own products.

Many thanks!

RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Hey, I'm not sure what you mean but if you can post a link to a broken flowchart I could try fixing it.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
By text-based do you mean ascii-art? Right now you can output graphics alongside with text to PNG, PDF or SVG - https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.png https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.pdf https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.svg
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
After trying hand-written approach and later perl's Parse::RecDescent I ended up using peg.js (http://pegjs.org) parser generator. It was probably the most flexible and performant out of all the options I tried.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Interesting idea, I'll definitely look into it and let you know. :)
RushPL··on Show HN: Side project to validate startup ideas
Idea sounds good but your website did not convince me to use it. There hasn't even been a demo. I'm not going to sign up only to see how it works.
RushPL··on Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
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