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Hey, thanks for sharing. It looks neat! Here's some (unstructured, rushed) feedback:

Consider adding some PWA metadata (manifest) so there's a bit more space when the app is added to the home screen.

Are you using perfect-freehand? If so, you might wanna give Steve Ruiz a shoutout!

The latency is not bad (iOS Safari) to be fair. I'd check how this works with the Apple Pencil though (including the additional APIs and pen properties it opens)

I have giant fingers, so this is nice for doodles, but writing gets frustrating. a basic zoom would fix that (problem: keeping the UI non obtrusive).

Consider adding colour (even a pre-defined palette to keep this super simple, say 3-4 colours). I got some fun creations from people who played with a similar project (https://lines.potato.horse), largely because they had just the right amount of creative control.

Also, consider adding an OLED-friendly colour scheme (with perfect blacks #000). Some inspiration: https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/night-rider/ and https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/dark-mode-articles/

(100% yak shave here, so not important) but: I'd check if the note content could be shared with the link (e.g. via data URIs) (mostly for fun)

Ah, finally, make it plomk like mmm.page or potato.horse (disable silent mode and click on the nav)! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT






100% shoutout to perfect-freehand/Steve Ruiz!

this is amazing feedback, thank you for taking the time to write it all out. I love the idea of audio feedback!


I was going to complement OP on how amazing this feels, not realising the drawing was lifted from somewhere else.

Seems like a glaring omission to mention Cloudflare D1 and... SVG, but not the guy who did the drawing part of your drawing app


It is a glaring omission with no excuse. I should have mentioned it.

I don't think it's such a big deal. It's a very well known package. The main reason I mentioned him was that it might be a nice/friendly thing to do.



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