Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective remote developer?

Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by apinstein on Sunday December 10, 2017 @07:26AM (#15891115)

I was hoping this thread would discuss remote whiteboarding. As a remote engineering team, I think inability to easily/quickly whiteboard collaboratively is our biggest productivity sapper. What are people using?

We have started trialing RealtimeBoard with an iPad Pro + pencil. It’s a good start but their iOS apps are kinda terrible. Anyone got something really successful?

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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by steamer25 on Sunday December 10, 2017 @12:04PM (#15892264)

Using a Wacom tablet with:

* A drawing app e.g., OneNote or Sketchbook or Krita

and

* A screen sharing app e.g., join.me

Has worked well for me. What's particularly nice is that you have a saveable, shareable, modifiable artifact when you're done with the remote session.

I'm also a bit surprised that Wiimote whiteboards never really took off: https://youtu.be/5s5EvhHy7eQ

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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by mronge on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:37PM (#15893080)

Also check out Astropad https://www.astropad.com which turns the iPad into a Wacom like graphics tablet.

Couple that with a drawing app and it works great

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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by debruinf on Sunday December 10, 2017 @02:44PM (#15893112)

I can only recommend groupboard, not sure they have an iOS app but their web app is as close to whiteboarding as possible: only focus on getting your idea on the board and not about styling and other fluff

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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by jansho on Monday December 11, 2017 @03:27AM (#15895809)

To add to the list, Skype for Business has a whiteboarding option. Easy and free.

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Re:Ask HN: What software/service helps you be an effective r... by allsystemsgo on Sunday December 10, 2017 @09:32AM (#15891518)

Pixelboard for iPad

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