How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still believe?

Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by melvinroest on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:05PM (#21708544)

Well, not everyone does that. I applied to YC with my side project [1] and got rejected. I didn't expect to get in, but if I would have, then I would be full-time on it.

Now I can't, which is a shame. So in that sense, I wish someone would fund me. I have a lot of "doodling the internet" type of ideas. I use digital note taking extensively myself, so I know what's missing.

[1] doodledocs.com

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Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by mikekchar on Thursday December 05, 2019 @01:16AM (#21710348)

I'll give you a hint. You should pivot to a collaborative design app. There are a couple around, but very few that have that "doodle feeling". You should be able to pick up a pen, sketch something quickly and then have someone else be able to modify/review it.

I'll give you another hint. Add shape recognition and move from capturing and storing pen strokes and generating bitmaps to capturing pen strokes and generating shapes. Add rudimentary grouping and ungrouping functionality, ability to move, stretch, rotate, etc. Allow pasting clip art and letting it grow/shrink/rotate when grouped with other objects, but just with a rough scaling, etc -- it doesn't have to look pretty. It's just for sketching things out.

Practically every software/design team needs an application like this and there will be money to pay for it.

P.S. I was on a team that built this as a windows application about 20 years ago, but we were ahead of our time. A SaaS webapp would be the bomb here.

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Re:How to proceed when you run out of cash, but you still be... by hazz99 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:18PM (#21708658)

What differentiates you from drawing apps?

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