Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

http://scratchpad.co

by adraper • 14 years ago

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francov882• 14 years ago

Amazing tool. This is the kind of thing you've always dreamed of finding.

danialtz2• 14 years ago

>"Sign up and get started now!" I register, and then nothing. Isn't this tool already released?

adraper10• 14 years ago

Sorry, guess some of the release text made it into the beta signup, we'll have a working app ready in the next day or so, if you signup i'll make sure you get first access—promise!

danialtz2• 14 years ago

Alright. Thank you.

KThornton• 14 years ago

Soooo excited about this!

schrototo• 14 years ago

Did you get the idea for this from that one footnote to Bret Victor's recent essay? If so, that's some impressive turnaround time.

adraper10• 14 years ago

Ha, I wish I could say I was that fast, although the whole thing's still very much in it's infancy sadly my turnaround time isn't quite that quick!

thehodge2• 14 years ago

I think people are taking the lean startup method of throwing a landing page up to gain intrest a little too far, this feels quite deceiving and to be honest has annoyed me that oh.. I'm just signing up to a mailing list and have to actually invite my friends to be 'front of the line'.. makes me feel like nothing has actually being built at all apart from a pretty landing page.

adraper10• 14 years ago

As the designer/developer behind this I promise you plenty is being build, we'll be ready to start inviting people to use it in the next couple of days.

Sorry to have annoyed you, but there's really no better way to gauge interest/insight into what your doing early than this type of approach, it really does work out for the better in the long run.

thehodge2• 14 years ago

"Sign up & Get Started Now!"

Thats exactly what your call to action says.. but thats blatantly a lie.. It gives the expectation of instant access.

"Sign up to learn more, Coming Soon, Be the first to know"

all alternative CTA's that are less deceitful.

nopassrecover• 14 years ago

Yeah, and using the lean startup method on a HN post like this is particularly deceiving (considering HN is usually for stuff that's been built).

mzuvella• 14 years ago

Standard HN comment these days. Bitch about signing up or sharing something and not make a single comment about the product itself.

johnmurch• 14 years ago

Looks like signup is broken :( Love to test this new tool out!

adraper10• 14 years ago

Odd, send me an email at andrew[at]scratchpad.co and I'd be happy to give you access when we have the tool live in the next day or two

adambratt• 14 years ago

Love the idea but isn't this the same thing as using command+shift+ctrl+4 and then pasting into a photoshop document?

adraper10• 14 years ago

It's similar yes (and partly what it's based on, i've been doing just that for years), but not everyone has photoshop (or wants to go through the effort of screenshot-ing and organizing their clippings on their hard drive

justjimmy• 14 years ago

How are people gushing about this service in the comments when it's not even released/available -_-

I got so excited, signed up, and then nothing :(

adraper10• 14 years ago

Sorry, as was noted below the CTA was a little misleading, I've updated it since—nothing sinister was meant by it, just trying to gain insight into what people want as we put the finishing touches on the app, you should get an email in the next couple of days to start using it

pc86• 14 years ago

What was the CTA before? Right now it says "Get Started Now" which is clearly not the case.

codegeek• 14 years ago

In IE8, the stylesheet does not load.

mrbogle• 14 years ago

You can do this today with the http://easel.io chrome extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/deejobgbijaihniifc...

It uses html/css, so you can even edit the things you import.

smit• 14 years ago

How different is this from easel.io?

adraper10• 14 years ago

The biggest difference is there's no extension to install (not a big deal to most). Also, we're focused on non-designers being able to get their thoughts/likes across easy to designers.

That said, as a designer myself the Scratchpad process is largely based on an existing process I've employed for a while to get things going to show other's in a simple manner what i'm thinking and get early buy in to be able to move forward faster and on my own terms.

bdclimber142• 14 years ago

I couldn't help but realize the remarkable design similarities to http://www.blogic.com. I'm curious if it inspired you.

adraper10• 14 years ago

wow, some definite similarities, but no hadn't seen that site until just now. It's actually based on another site design I'd done a few years ago: http://yourboxseat.com/

bdclimber142• 14 years ago

Darn, I was going to say I was flattered.

jonny_eh2• 14 years ago

Looks like your site's SSL cert expired.

rnernento• 14 years ago

This is awesome, but isn't it a copyright nightmare waiting to happen?

jonny_eh2• 14 years ago

As long as you don't redistribute what you copy I can't imagine it being a problem. It looks to be meant for prototyping/wireframing.

Scratchpad: Rapid prototyping from UI elements you clip/collect from the web

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