Precursor
Dev tools
wireframing tool
SHOW HN2015
334points
105comments
#41of 2,565 in 2015
Top 2%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
27 positive, 21 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 18 critical, out of 72 comments about the project. Thread score +0.19.
Design: 11 for, 2 againstIdea: 6 for, 4 againstPerformance: 6 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 7 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast, smooth and beautifully designed UI
From 4 comments
Wow this is amazing! Great work guys. It's fluid and beautiful and functional.
malux85 on HNThe app is not personally useful to me, but this has to be the best feeling web app I've ever used. Fluid, no illusion-shattering glitches, everything just works, including…
newobj on HNBeautifully designed, and props to the engineers for keeping everything so snappy, even with all the animations. Really quality work.
mako-taco on HNAmazing app! The design is very elegant and clean. I love The minimal use of colors and UI interactions are delightful.
alexgaribay on HN
Good keyboard shortcuts and desktop-like feel
From 2 comments
WOW impressed with the shortcuts. Within a second of loading, I started using all the typical adobe shortcuts, and they even got a shift+? for the shortcut menu. That alone is…
dluan on HNThe app is not personally useful to me, but this has to be the best feeling web app I've ever used. Fluid, no illusion-shattering glitches, everything just works, including…
newobj on HN
Fills a gap for live collaborative sketching
From 2 comments
As a member of a totally distributed UX team, yes. We've been looking for just a simple whiteboarding tool that updates live, supports a pen tablet, and lets us collaborate…
calinet6 on HNVery nice looking landing page. On the surface this seems to fill the void left by Easel.
robotnoises on HN
Objections
Lacks pre-built UI components and element libraries
From 5 comments
I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with…
thebouv on HNI have a real need for such a tool - I work at a non-profit (MAYDAY PAC) and we pull expertise from distributed technical volunteers. While it's a good start, I agree it's far…
rio517 on HNI'd like to congratulate you for such an impressive user interface: so fast, sleek and well designed. For the purpose of creating mocks I'd like to have more prebuilt components…
enriquecastl on HNSerious Slow Clap guys. To do this as a web app is really impressive. Great UI. Only recommendation would be to have a library of prebuilt commonly used components, similar to…
vfrogger on HNUX is great. Like others pointed out, it is of limited functionality. You would need to add pre-made elements to be able to wireframe things. Then ability to link those. But UX…
desireco42 on HN
Closer to sketching than full mockup tool
From 3 comments
I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with…
thebouv on HNI have mixed feelings here: 1. This is just wire-framing, not mock-ups. Adding mock-up features will take away the realtime-discussion-ness of the product, so that's that. 2.…
arihant on HNIt's a collaborative sketching tool; not a collaborative mockup tool. It remains flexible enough to play with visual concepts outside the restrictions of a UI kit. That's a good…
calinet6 on HN
Bugs in zoom, browser compatibility and connection
From 4 comments
Having trouble zooming in and out (ctrl + scroll). The zoom is incredibly sensitive and once I've zoomed one way, I can't get back to normal... Only to the polar opposite.
danhardman on HNI have a black screen, a blue tooltip saying "Right-click" and nothing whatsoever happening when I right click. Firefox 31.5.0 edit: is it really necessary to downvote for…
planetjones on HNIt's pretty sluggish on Firefox.
tacone on HNAny news? I still can't use it.
Trufa on HN
Requests
Shareable or community UI component libraries
From 2 comments
I think something that could really help this app succeed, is sharable UI elements. There are a lot of common things I don't want to redraw (date pickers, dropdowns, file…
1qaz2wsx3edc on HNSerious Slow Clap guys. To do this as a web app is really impressive. Great UI. Only recommendation would be to have a library of prebuilt commonly used components, similar to…
vfrogger on HN
Trello integration
From 1 comment
If anybody from Trello is around, we'd love to do an integration. As Trello users ourselves, we want to be able to attach a Precursor wireframe directly to a card and sketch our…
dwwoelfel on HN
Better text and font size controls
From 1 comment
This is pretty amazing! I am looking for a quick way to sketch some apps and this might be the simplest way to do so even though it misses a couple of things. Some of the things…
foxpc on HN
Questions
Who is the target audience and when is live collaboration used
From 2 comments
I'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with…
thebouv on HN> I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with someone else. That's just me though so…
Mahn on HN
Is there a demo without signup
From 1 comment
Why can't apps like this have a accessible demo available to try it out? Not interested enough to spend time signing up and I avoid SSO whenever I can for various reasons.
cracell on HN
Alternatives named
Balsamiq
From 2 comments
This is cool, in concept. But there's no way that drawing all the shapes manually is an improvement over my existing system for creating annotated wireframes using Balsamiq…
dbg31415 on HNI'm trying to figure out the audience. I've never had to collaborate on a mockup. I make mockups. I review mockups. I mark mockups up. But I've never wanted to do one live with…
thebouv on HN
Moqups
From 1 comment
No offense, but this tool seems pretty raw. Why announce it now? https://moqups.com is a great web based mockup app I have been using for a few years. It's very slick.
ripberge on HN
Google Docs
From 1 comment
As a college CS student, It's actually super useful for college students working on a project. The only good choice right now is Google DOCS for collaboration, having a realtime…
keithy on HN
Cosketch
From 1 comment
There are quite many choices if you look around, in uni we used http://cosketch.com for math alot and i was very happy with it, it looks a bit outdated today but the workflow is…
Too on HN