Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Discord, and Slack

Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by dudus on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:36PM (#28374489)

Are stickers the new Emojis? Every app seem to have a slightly different implementation and they don't really interoperate well.

Can this tool be used for WhatsApp stickers? And how different are Slack and Discord Stickers?

I wonder if we'll see some standardization in the future akin to the addition of emojis to Unicode.

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by zaik on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @07:41PM (#28374938)

https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0449.html

Now we just have to wait until people leave walled gardens like Slack and Discord and start using the Internet standard for IM.

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by dudus on Thursday September 02, 2021 @02:28PM (#28395588)

So it's basically a XML file that defines sticker packs and stickers as png files. No notes on size constraints, image formats, installation, distribution, sharing across apps. Seems like an early stage standard.

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by blengert on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @02:34AM (#28376984)

In case you are interested in adding WhatsApp sticker support, here is the link to the client side code for iOS: https://github.com/WhatsApp/stickers/blob/main/iOS/README.md

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by okdjnfweonfe on Tuesday August 31, 2021 @06:42PM (#28374528)

stickers are the half-way point between images and emoji, as in, bigger emoji, usually sent without a message.

Some platforms upgrade emoji to stickers when used solo (telegram for example)

there isn't anything majorly special about them on any platform AFAIK

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by mafriese on Wednesday September 01, 2021 @04:44AM (#28377597)

I think the problem with emojis is that everyone has the same options to pick from - if you have stickers you can express yourself in a way that fits more your own style(?)

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Re:Show HN: I made an app to draw stickers for iMessage, Dis... by fennecfoxy on Friday September 03, 2021 @04:36AM (#28401778)

As a furry on Telegram, they definitely will be. They don't seem as popular with nonfurs/off telegram...yet.

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