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ag_47 | 9 years ago

Now I'm curious, Are there any websites that do something similar to /r/place? (hackathon idea?)

Also, reminds be of the million dollar front page [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

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A long time ago, I built http://www.ipaidthemost.com/, which is kinda related, at least to TMDH anyhow. Far, far less collaborative than /r/place, but similar in terms of staking out ownership.

jacquesm|9 years ago

Hilarious. That's got to be the most direct monetization strategy since tmdhp.

Liron|9 years ago

Similar to https://flashcash.money

joenot443|9 years ago

I love it. Wish this had been my idea.

Twirrim|9 years ago

Does that actually make money?

bsimpson63|9 years ago

http://www.drawball.com/

theklub|9 years ago

Actually this idea has been around for years, and sadly isn't new at all. I just checked and there is one that's been around since at least 2006, http://da-archive.com/index.php?showtopic=42405

I remember lueshi

ag_47|9 years ago

Right, true. Collaborative drawing was basically the "hello world" of real-time platforms back in the day (Firebase, Parse etc). But I think most of those were ephemeral canvases.

Raphmedia|9 years ago

/r/place spawned this clone: http://placepx.com

AldousHaxley|9 years ago

Not quite the same, but my startup, Formgraph[0], also does public, real-time collaborative drawing. I even did a similar write-up about the stack behind it the other day[1]. Looks like they're relying on Cassandra and Redis. I went with RethinkDB. Should probably do a write-up about the front end in the future.

[0] https://www.formgraph.com

[1] https://medium.com/@JohnWatson/real-time-collaboration-with-...

criley2|9 years ago

Some redditors have created /r/place derivatives already. I'm not aware of one prior to /r/place but it seems impossible that it hasn't been done before

splintercell|9 years ago

http://8192px.co/

caspervonb|9 years ago

<shameless-plug> Also available on GitHub (https://github.com/8192px/8192px) ;-] </shameless-plug>

Ajedi32|9 years ago

There were definitely a few that popped up after /r/place closed down. (pxls.space being the most popular) They were nowhere near as successful as /r/place though.

unknown|9 years ago

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est|9 years ago

4chan's moot's previous startup was something called canvas.

wingerlang|9 years ago

That was not realtime nor collaborative on a single pane. It was a "remix" platform where one user created the initial drawing, then people used it as a base and drew around/over it to change it - in a new picture.

It was quite interesting for a little while.