DoodleMaster
Dev tools
ui code generation
SHOW HN2018
302points
141comments
#88of 2,155 in 2018
Top 5%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
12 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 19 critical, out of 48 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Idea: 10 for, 12 againstDocs: 1 for, 3 againstDesign: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Cool, exciting idea
From 3 comments
Codeless UI is so exciting! This reminds me of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad from the early 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
jakelazaroff on HNI think this is great. I see a future where designers can draw and create an interactive prototype. Anything beyond that is, my (educated) guess, long way off. Anybody hoping…
GijsjanB on HNwoooooa this is so cool!!!
LifeQuestioner on HN
Reminds of earlier tools like Palm Graffiti and Sketchpad
From 2 comments
Codeless UI is so exciting! This reminds me of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad from the early 60s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sketchpad
jakelazaroff on HNits a great concept & prototype - really reminds me of the palm pilot graffiti writing system and alphabet [0]. after just watching the video - seems like adding a plugin system…
andyidsinga on HN
Objections
Drawing is no better than dragging components from a palette
From 3 comments
Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I see any advantage over dragging movable/resizable components from a toolbar, but there are several obvious disadvantages.
nebulous1 on HNNeat, but wouldn't it just be easier to have a pallet of controls / components that user could drag into a view and cut out the need for interpreting a drawing?
steveharman on HNIf you already have a consistent design language,and those pre-baked pieces, it seems like assembling them visually is the easy part. This would still leave the behavior logic an…
mpolichette on HN
Rule-based layout is better than drawing for responsive UIs
From 1 comment
Maybe I am not a UI designer but I much prefer rule based approaches than drawing. Rule based means I tell use instruction like "this button must be on top on that button…
GuB-42 on HN
Repo was hard to run and poorly organised at first
From 1 comment
This is not the sort of repo I would present to the public. * There are no instructions on how to actually run the thing. * There is no requirements.txt or similar, so I have no…
akx on HN
Requests
Explain how the model was trained and the training data
From 2 comments
Congrats! Can you maybe say a bit about how you trained it?
johannesbeil on HNHow was the PyTorch model trained? (Most interested in the training data)
punnerud on HN
Add a web demo or easier way to try it
From 1 comment
karanchahal, not sure if this can be renamed retroactively, but this may have been a good "Show HN" candidate: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html Regardless, it's a cool…
alangpierce on HN
Questions
Why doodle instead of typing widget names?
From 1 comment
Why doodle? What difference does it make than to simply type the name of the widget you want?
atulvi on HN
Alternatives named
Microsoft Sketch2Code
From 2 comments
Microsoft also offers this as Sketch2Code: https://github.com/Microsoft/ailab/tree/master/Sketch2Code
Someone1234 on HNOnly the other day I was looking at https://sketch2code.azurewebsites.net, which does something similar atop Azure cognitive APIs (I work on Azure).
rcarmo on HN
Yotako
From 2 comments
Haven't used it, but Yotako seems similar: https://www.yotako.io/
tyingq on HNthis is pretty cool! one thing on the image drawing one is that there are "industry-wide" common practices when using a placeholder/drawing one to represent an image as a…
laurentb on HN
Anvil
From 1 comment
We've built an explicitly Visual Basic-like development environment for the web, which I think fits your bill: https://anvil.works. It's got a drag'n'drop UI creator, you use…
meredydd on HN
Crane.ai
From 1 comment
While i am a fan, we took it up a notch by allowing users to upload their UI and we write the supporting code using A.I. https://crane.ai/
wonderofworld on HN
Wireframe Sketcher
From 1 comment
Wireframe Sketcher (my fav out of them all) does this in a more efficient manner.
jack9 on HN