Oh come on. "Instagram for pixel art"? When will the baity associations end.<p>The description on the app store sums it up perfectly - "Draw! is a pixel art editor. Draw 16 x 16 animated pictures and share them with your friends."
I really like this idea! However, I think the value of this really lies in building a community of users that share their drawings. That's what makes instagram really great and "sticky". I think putting a $1.99 barrier to entry into the ecosystem could be detrimental to the growth you would need for this to take off.
Hi, we made an app called Tinygram (<a href="http://tiny.by" rel="nofollow">http://tiny.by</a>) that I think is more Instagramm-y (uggh!) than this.<p>Its not done yet (missing a few big features) but it has a smaller canvas 10x10 and a unique way of choosing color shades and doing animation. It already has a sizeable community and sputtering of new content (pixel art is hard for most people we discovered.)<p>It is an interesting community building experience so far.<p>Anyhow in case you are curious on how closer it is to Insatgram, its free at <a href="http://bit.ly/tinygramming" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/tinygramming</a> .
clearly it's an idea whose time has come since i had almost exactly the same idea last saturday<p><a href="https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/269678506475151362" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/269678506475151362</a><p>and then followed through a day later<p><a href="https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/269942225394348033" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/zenpsycho/status/269942225394348033</a>
Nice idea! What are other similar apps that did this? (Assuming you did research). I see bsaul did something similar but he used geolocation as sharing platform…interesting…<p>And why the restrictive color palette? To create the nostalgic effect of old video games?
Neat. Your challenge here will be finding a large enough community of people who want to put the time and effort into illustrating and animating this – enough to create a stream of new content for users.<p>Instagram caught on in part because taking a photo is so easy. None of the composition involved in writing even a 140-character tweet: you just hold up the camera and snap. (Yes, photography involves composition, but pretty filters aid even the worst photographers there.) Do you have any idea of how you'll encourage enough content to create a meaningful feed?
Very cool. I've had the idea of transforming <a href="http://www.patternify.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.patternify.com/</a> into something like this for a long time, but I'm glad somebody else did it :)
Awesome. I think the format (picture feed) has the potential to work across a bunch of verticals - movie posters (to get movie recommendations), art (to get gallery recommendations), food, etc.<p>Pixel art is a great choice. The emphasis is on creation and expression - and maybe it hits a sweet spot - it requires more work than instagram (making it more legitimate as an art/craft) but less than creating the mona lisa...<p>You should get eBoy to use it: <a href="http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/" rel="nofollow">http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/</a>
Hey, i did <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/world-of-pictos-by-simple-app/id473964357" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/app/world-of-pictos-by-simple-app/i...</a> , please contact me using the "contact" if interested...
Very nice!
I can imagine this app will get many users and create interesting community.
And I think that initial paying model unnecessarily limits potential users since there will be many way to monetize.
Cute, but the square pixels actually look like small rectangles to me. How did it get past legal?<p>BTW, we really need an 8-bit GarageBand with sharing features.