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Astropad
Company blog · blog.astropad.comprogrammingdesignbusiness
Astropad is the company blog at blog.astropad.com, writing about programming, design and business. Since 2015, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Astropad engineering blog for posts on Apple's Sidecar competition with the app, the rewrite of Astropad in Rust, and the difficulties of relying on Apple APIs. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Creative software and accessories designed by ex-Apple engineers. Explore remote desktop software, iPad drawing tools, screen protectors, and more.
Most-linked posts?
- The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-10-12
What Hacker News says?
https://blog.astropad.com/the-catch-22-of-apple-apis/ seems relevant
Comment linking /the-catch-22-of-apple-apis/
on “Dramatically reduced power usage in Firefox 70 on macOS with Core Animation”Submitted What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple as a story · 372 points
HN discussionAstro HQ | Firmware Engineer | Minneapolis, MN | ONSITE | Full-time We are Astro HQ and we build hardware and software tools that unlock creativity and productivity. Our tools are in use by tens of thousands of creative pros and some of the largest animation studios in the world. Our latest product is Luna Display – The first and only hardware solution that turns your iPad into a wireless second display. We are look…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2018)”Submitted The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs as a story · 88 points
HN discussionAstropad | https://astropad.com/ and http://lunadisplay.com | Windows Software Engineer | REMOTE or Minneapolis, MN. | Fulltime THE ONE LINER: Help us take Astropad and Luna Display to Windows via Rust! LANGUAGES WE USE: Rust, C, C++, C#, Assembly (You should know 2 of these well) ABOUT THE COMPANY: We are a small, bootstrapped startup founded by a team of ex-Apple engineers. Our tools are used by tens of thousands…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2020)”Submitted Apple Watch and how good design is honest as a story · 14 points
HN discussionMaybe I'm just being old here, but MongoDB (initial release 2009) doesn't really feel like the old guard of open source to me. Not calling dibs: fair enough. Edit: Just noticed the pronoun you used and was confused. I vaguely remember these people (the creators of this product) from when they launched the product as, well, male. Turns out they still are: Here's their separate blog post btw: https://blog.astropad.com…
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on “What to Do When You Get Sherlocked by Apple”Submitted Why We're Rewriting Astropad in Rust as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAstropad | https://astropad.com/ and http://lunadisplay.com | Windows Software Engineer | REMOTE or Minneapolis, MN. | Fulltime THE ONE LINER: Help us take Astropad and Luna Display to Windows via Rust! LANGUAGES WE USE: Rust, C, C++, C#, Assembly (You should know 2 of these well) ABOUT THE COMPANY We are a small, bootstrapped startup founded by a team of ex-Apple engineers. Our tools are used by tens of thousands o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2019)”Submitted Apple Watch and Honest Design as a story · 5 points
HN discussionIt mostly depends on what stylus you use. Here are the recommended ones: http://blog.astropad.com/styluses/ We have a 7 days free trial take it for a spin, judge for yourself.
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on “Astropad – Transform your iPad into a professional graphics tablet”Submitted The Catch-22 of Building a Business on Apple’s APIs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionFor those who haven't heard, Astropad allows illustrators, artists and animators to turn their existing iPad into a professional graphics tablet for macOS. Choosing Rust to meet the cross-platform requirements for Astropad is a great choice and a interesting one. I have read the previous article [0] on how Astropad was unfortunately Sherlocked by Apple [1] in the Catalina + iPadOS Sidecar feature and given that Astr…
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on “Why We're Rewriting Astropad in Rust”Submitted Managing your psychology as an indie dev as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted iPad Pro fever: 75% artists want to buy it as a story · 1 points
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