from Hacker News

Show HN: Minimator, a Minimalist Graphical Editor

by maxwellito on 1/7/22, 12:17 PM with 32 comments

• by bhagyash on 1/7/22, 2:55 PM

  Loved the concept, makes drawing sooo easy even with a trackpad.

  Some tips :-

  1. When holding down shift allow straight lines only and no curves. It's the norm in design softwares

  2. When I drag to create the line, the drop point if off and not accurate to the nearest dot of my mouse position. I'm unsure if it's a bug or have you deliberately built a non-accurate system.

• by phsilva on 1/10/22, 1:59 AM

  Congratulations on having a dependency free project [0]. (just typescript)

  We got so used to read code using frameworks that pure JavaScript seems other world.

  [0] https://github.com/maxwellito/minimator/

• by bleachedsleet on 1/10/22, 2:21 AM

  A similar tool: http://100r.co/site/dotgrid.html

  Absolutely love small, simple tools like this that have one singular purpose and execute it with restraint.

• by mickael-kerjean on 1/10/22, 4:48 AM

  very interesting "securityCheck": https://minimator.app/dist/services/features.js

• by jarbus on 1/9/22, 2:01 AM

  Reminds me of dotgrid from 100rabbits http://100r.co/site/dotgrid.html

• by Sholmesy on 1/10/22, 12:27 AM

  This is excellent.

  Another commenter pointed it out, but it rang true for me; it is difficult to make an ugly drawing in this style. Very nice.

• by vladstudio on 1/7/22, 4:39 PM

  Love it! It does one thing, does it well, and it's hard to make an ugly drawing in this style :-) I'm not sure how useful it is in practice, but as a piece of computer art, it's great!

• by pfist on 1/10/22, 1:16 AM

  What a delightful tool. I can imagine having a lot of fun creating logos and icons with this.

• by RobertRoberts on 1/10/22, 1:23 AM

  This was very helpful. But I didn't understand the rules, so I thought it was broken when it kept showing me the same word.

  I eventually figured it out by accidentally clicking the question mark (I am an avid interface clicker) and read the instructions...

• by dusted on 1/7/22, 12:35 PM

  The "pinch to change" is kinda bad, since.. mice. But the drawing itself is interesting, the constraints makes it a very enjoyable experience, but do try not to assume people are using a touch screen,.

• by speps on 1/7/22, 3:27 PM

  Make it so you're presented a canvas right away and an option to give it a title and resize later. Excalidraw does this very well.

• by jjice on 1/7/22, 9:39 PM

  Was this hijacking the browser's back button for anyone else? Not a fan of not being able to press back to go to the previous page. The site is neat though.

• by ibdf on 1/10/22, 5:27 PM

  This is super neat, thanks for making it. Two pieces of improvement:

  1. Allow for diagonals straight lines 2. Allow for different line thickness

• by priyanmuthu on 1/9/22, 6:32 PM

  This is such a cool tool. Thank you very much.

• by amazing_stories on 1/9/22, 7:38 PM

  I love these types of projects! Good job.

• by busymom0 on 1/9/22, 9:07 PM

  Is it just me or does it not work on iPhone? I try touching and dragging and long pressing but none worked :(

• by fvold on 1/9/22, 7:45 PM

  Wow, this is nice!

  Is there a hotkey to toggle the eraser?

• by rendall on 1/9/22, 9:52 PM

  Brilliant! Just, amazing. Well done.

• by robbiejs on 1/10/22, 1:36 PM

  Very nice, love it.