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Re:Show HN: Magma – Multiplayer AI for Artists on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @10:14AM (#36138667)
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Show HN: Magma – Multiplayer AI for Artists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZESJfjwxLjk

Hello HN community! I’m one of the founders of Magma, a multiplayer art platform. You might recall our earlier post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869131), and today we’re sharing a significant update with our artist-focused, multiplayer AI assistant, a first in the realm of collaborative creative tools. Hope you’ll like it!See how it works in this YouTube video:...

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Can you message me at [email protected] and I'll reply with some additional details? :) I'd like to make sure Magma works for you.
Maybe, let's chat. Email me at [email protected]
So what could go wrong is lack of permission. Can you try doing "chmod 666 /dev/hidraw*" on root on trying again?
All right, you can now go to "Edit -> Connect Stylus". Try reloading if you don't see it. I pray that it works for you. It's still somewhat experimental. :)
Sorry, forgot to clarify. WebHID is a way to get pressure sensitivity on Linux. It was tested on Wacom One and Intuos Pro. But may work on more tablets.
We have an experimental WebHID support for some Wacom tablets. Can you let me know your username? I can enable WebHID for you and will leave you some instructions on how to try it out.
Took us a few months but we're now wrapping up last investor for our Seed/SAFE round.
We actually have it on the roadmap. Not sure if it will be a file export but imagine being able to share your drawing as GIF timelapse, or being able to go back to any point in your drawing or generate a video from the entire process. Or even use your own drawing flow as a virtual drawing partner.

Thanks for the suggestion!

We actually have 3 co-founders. Radek built aggie.io - it's been online for a few years. He initially built it to draw with his friends from South America. ;) First-hand need for art collaboration hehe.

Wojtek and I were in the meantime building code2flow.com, collaboration solution for diagrams. Also took us a few years.

2 years ago we decided to join forces and built an ultimate art collaboration solution with the experience and codebases from Aggie.io and code2flow.com.

Hard to say how many years ... Definitely over ten thousand of engineering hours but at the same time things were a bit harder few years ago when it comes to browser APIs so if we decided to rebuild it today it could take less time but we would also be more experienced.

Today we're hiring some more people and it's a team effort!

Thank you so much. :) Yes a lot of development went into it so that drawing experience is top notch. We're now expanding in areas that make it useful for a real production workflow. Game dev seems to be a sweet spot. I've been to GDC and spoke to a lot of people and got really good feedback.

Show HN: Magma Studio – multiplayer drawing/art platform for game dev/animation

https://magmastudio.io/

Hey, I'm the co-founder of Magma and coded huge chunks of the product. My other co-founder Radek coded the collaborative drawing engine in Typescript with parts in Web Assembly and also using WebGL - that's why it has a native app feel. If you have an iPad or a Wacom tablet we support pressure sensitivity (enable Windows Ink if you have issues).We prepared 10 drawings that you can join. Beware...

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Re:Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (2014) on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:40AM (#13579770)
Author of code2flow here (https://code2flow.com) - I think you could use my tool to easily create many types of trees. It's not generic, as in, it is focused on charting programs/algorithms and workflows but I've seen people (ab)use it for many different use cases, like so: https://code2flow.com/fRRlCK
The free version is perfectly functional. :) Saas version will be affordable once it's done and once it has more features.

Current paid versions are more for bigger teams and companies requiring on premise solution.

Great feedback. Thank you. 2) Probably not good for nontechnical people but on the other hand most accurate for technical people. 3) Your point sounds reasonable. How would you describe the need of some companies need to host 100% of their data? Medical companies for example. This is the point I was trying to convey in the pricing. 4) Square is the new web 3.0 :)
You're welcome to use the free trial version and I can assure you that the SaaS paid version will be very affordable.

As for $100/$300 pricing, these are on premise business/enterprise versions meant to be used by bigger teams where data confidentiality is crucial.

Also, if this product can save more than 3 engineering hours per month for your whole company than I'd say the self-hosted product is totally worth it. Simple math. :)
Let me start by saying that the free trial is perfectly functional and you can use the product totally for free and you are welcome to!

The pricing for individuals is gonna be published soon along with the SaaS product. It's probably gonna be something like $10/mo but still couple more features need to be built to justify that (like permanent links which content can be edited)

As for the $100/mo - we do have business/enterprise customers who find lots of value in it. I guess the price has been initially verified by the market so should I justify it?

I guess I can justify the price by saying that the project has taken numerous hours of engineering, testing and experimenting. I think this is natural in pricing models that bigger customers pay more.

If you can do the same in a week than good for you.

Peace and take care :)

Indeed, it does look a bit weird in that case. On the other hand check out this flowchart https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ - the same thing looks very clear here.
I don't have anything large at hand that I can share. Here is a small real-world use case https://code2flow.com/wclEvF - and this is another https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ In the latter example, please note that "Update failed: flash error" generates only one node in the flowchart.

The most complex flowcharts were created by customers and testers but I don't want to expose their data. They have hundreds of lines of code resulting in huge diagrams.

There is Sass version in the works that will be probably $10/mo - still working on the features and billing.
Nice, thanks for sharing. :)
I see, this arguably makes such loops easier to follow. I'll look into making it optional though.
I'm glad you like it. I just deployed a fix that should address the download problem. Cheers.
I just wrote you an email but I'm replying here as well. If you just need to make some flowcharts they will not have a code2flow stamp in any of the pricing tiers. Maybe except free trial, but it does not watermark the output either yet. You are welcome to use the free trial until we have a paid SaaS or buy the basic self-hosted version.

The enterprise version is for companies embedding code2flow in their own products.

Many thanks!

Hey, I'm not sure what you mean but if you can post a link to a broken flowchart I could try fixing it.
By text-based do you mean ascii-art? Right now you can output graphics alongside with text to PNG, PDF or SVG - https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.png https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.pdf https://code2flow.com/8qRgzO.code.svg
After trying hand-written approach and later perl's Parse::RecDescent I ended up using peg.js (http://pegjs.org) parser generator. It was probably the most flexible and performant out of all the options I tried.
Interesting idea, I'll definitely look into it and let you know. :)

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