To Be

[bshimmin]

I feel like someone spent a lot of money on the domain and then subsequently tried to work out what the hell to do with it, "pivoted" a number of times, and somehow ended up with... whatever the hell this is.

[Mahn]

It looks stupid now, but in retrospect twitter and instagram looked stupid as well. It's the kind of startup that either fails horribly or explodes in usage inexplicably.

[r109]

Myspace and Geocities had a baby? But they're both dead?

[pcthrowaway]

More like Google Wave and Google Docs had a baby.

[DiabloD3]

This is interesting, but the front page is rather cluttered and makes it hard to pay attention to the core message.

[codemac]

AdBlock Plus blocked this entire page, if anyone is seeing an entirely white page like I was.

[TazeTSchnitzel]

Perhaps the domain was previously used for serving ads and the block list needs updating.

[GigabyteCoin]

So did noscript.

I temporarily allowed the domain and it was well worth the click.

[intrasight]

Yup - blank page. That's all I needed to know.

[arcameron]

Completely white page with NoScript, please add a <noscript> tag

[kephra]

This page follows a typical JavaScript antipattern of not showing anything to search engines, web scrapers and people who block JavaScript.

A noscript tag sould at least tell me, what the site offers when enabling JS, to give me a reasont to enable JS.

And it takes ages to load on a normal DSL line. I dont want to know how slow this page is when browsing with a cell phone.

I just checked. This page not only requires JavaScript, but also a Desktop environment. There is no drag and drop on my computer.

[of]

That's a good idea. Why would someone downvote this?

[NiklasPersson]

I'm thinking modern art, make no sense, have fun, be "strange", create something raw and unique... yeah. Some people will have fun with this I'm sure. Not for me at this moment in life though, but that shouldn't matter to anyone.

Cheers

[jstanek]

What exactly is this? It looks to me like a multiplayer vaporwave-inspired shirt maker.

[dinkumthinkum]

My advice is the demo video should show something compelling being created not a bunch of completely random nonsense that does nothing to evoke any kind of connection with anyone. Presumably you created this with this Hamletesque title to create memorable "Internety" experiences. Show one. Otherwise I think it is hard to understand. Sure, someone else could probably create something much better than is in that video but if even the creator can't create something compelling ... its a bit weird. Just my advice. It is an interesting drawing tool, otherwise.

[jbullfrog]

I thought the same thing. Was wondering why the lack of anything substantial created. They made a video. Could have made a more complete project with their product for the video. :)

Regardless, cool idea.

[unicornporn]

Target group:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seapunk

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=%22seapunk%22

[Orangeair]

It's like a hipster Web 2.0 version of YTMND.

[at_]

Maybe I'm overreacting b/c this aligns with my interests pretty directly but this is outrageously cool + well-executed. And better yet looks like there's already a bunch of interesting users on there.

Completely eliminates the technical barriers to creating this type/genre of net art so it's gonna be interesting seeing the effect that has alone

How long has this been around?

[of]

to.be has been around since 2012 / 2013. I'm glad you think it's cool.

[Det_Jacobian]

The concept was a lot more interesting to me than the implementation. I thought I would end up being able to view a and click bunch of masked, active HTML items, instead it seems to bake it down into a single image. Editing tools looked neat, but "print on a T-shirt" was the last thing I expected, and a disappointment.

[of]

Hmm, I'm not sure what you mean by 'bake it down into a single image'. You should be able to drag around the HTML elements on the field, if you've made an account and are working on your own field, or pulled it from someone else.

[emehrkay]

I haven't had a chance to read through some of the source, but does anyone know how the photo editing is done? Are there libs to handle those effects?

[nicwolff]

Safari 7.1, no extensions: blank page. Firefox 34.0.5, clean install: blank page. Chrome 39.0.2171.99, clean install: blank page.

[hypron]

Looks like a great site to make dank memes with.

[grandalf]

Love it. A free form virtual world. Been wanting to build one of these for a long time.

[antihero]

Somehow, I'm not sure how, you've crippled the scrollbar on my browser :S

[blacksqr]

|| !

[rvern]

or not (to be)?

[WA]

Could be used to create "mood boards" for games, stories, art