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Precursor
Company blog · precursorapp.com/blogdesignprogramming
Precursor is the company blog at precursorapp.com, writing about design and programming. Since 2015, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “Precursor – Prototyping and team collaboration should be simple”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (19) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers mention Precursor, a collaborative whiteboard and prototyping app, as a tool and as an example of a ClojureScript/Datascript product. Most comments are about the app rather than its blog posts.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 19 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Your wireframe should be easy to share with any developer on your team. Design fast with iPhone and iPad collaboration. Precursor is productive prototyping.
Most-linked posts?
- Precursor – Prototyping and team collaboration should be simple7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2015-02-28
- Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React5 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2015-06-04
- Every product designer should know about ClojureScript4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2015-03-12
- Show HN: Released Om-i, a perf instrumentation tool for Om apps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-02
What Hacker News says?
I can personally recommend precursor: https://precursorapp.com
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on “Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website”Submitted Show HN: Mockups fixed by making collaboration effortless, built with React as a story · 334 points
HN discussionAlso interesting to see the pitch on "ClojureScript is a Product Design Tool"[0], written by Precursor's designer. A lot of this stuff can be made more accessible for designers and FE developers who don't want to have to deep dive into all the new-fangled frameworks. [0] https://precursorapp.com/blog/clojure-is-a-product-design-to...
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on “React.js Introduction for People Who Know Just Enough JQuery”Submitted Clojure is a product design tool as a story · 18 points
HN discussionPayGarden | Full-stack | SF | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred, sponsor visa) + REMOTE (for some positions) What : With PayGarden merchants can accept big-brand gift cards as payment - imagine Stripe, but instead of credit cards, your customers can pay with Starbucks, Walmart, Amazon (& ~100 more) gift cards. See our partnership with Watsi [0] - turning major brand cards into life-changing healthcare for people, or Pri…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted Every product designer should know about ClojureScript as a story · 9 points
HN discussionPayGarden | Full-stack | SF | Full Time | ONSITE (preferred, sponsor visa) + REMOTE (some positions) What: With PayGarden merchants can accept major brand gift cards as payment - imagine Stripe, but instead of credit cards, your customers can pay with Starbucks, Walmart, Amazon (& 100 more) gift cards. See our partnership with Watsi [0] turning major brand cards into life-changing healthcare for people, or Private I…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2018)”Submitted Clojure is a product design tool as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI like the landing page for Precursor ( https://precursorapp.com/home ) because it shows off the app's collaborative features in the background (only on desktop) and goes straight from landing page to app without even a page refresh. It also has a few fancy animated svg illustrations and a well-done effect when you hover over the main cta.
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on “Ask HN: What are the best product landing pages you've stumbled upon?”Submitted Precursor – Prototyping and team collaboration should be simple as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYou could try spinning up https://github.com/precursorapp/precursor The cloud version is running at https://precursorapp.com
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on “Witeboard”Submitted Simplify flow diagramming with Precursor as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI ran https://precursorapp.com on Vultr in the early days. I had a setup with a few dedicated servers for the DB and load balancer, and then I would spin up and shut down application servers whenever I deployed new backend code. Infrastructure looked like: https://precursor.precursorapp.com/document/Backend-Infrastr... I used to recommend it to everybody, but don't any longer. I had two negative experiences that mad…
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on “Vultr introduces $2.50/month plan”Submitted Show HN: Let's make something, an experiment in collaboration with strangers as a story · 5 points
HN discussionPrecursor, a prototyping tool I worked on, had "multiplayer" mode way before figma https://precursorapp.com/ I'm certain they were aware of it. We had a signup from a Figma domain in 2015 and I emailed them about Precursor in 2016 before they had implemented multiplayer.
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on “How Figma's Multiplayer Technology Works”Submitted Show HN: Released Om-i, a perf instrumentation tool for Om apps as a story · 5 points
HN discussionI was the main author of Circle's frontend (the code is open-source: https://github.com/circleci/frontend ). I went on to build Precursor ( https://precursorapp.com ), which uses Datascript ( https://github.com/tonsky/datascript ) to accomplish a lot of the things that Om Next promises. If you haven't tried Datascript, you should really take a look! It does require a bit of work to make datascript transactions trigg…
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on “Why We Use Om, and Why We’re Excited for Om Next”Submitted Precursor is now open source as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm regularly hearing about web applications written in ClojureScript, a.k.a. Clojure (a dialect of Lisp, [1]) compiled to JavaScript. Recently I've heard of: - https://github.com/asciinema/asciinema-player - https://precursorapp.com/ (not open-source) [1] http://www.clojure.org/
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on “The Lisp Curse (2011)”Submitted Show HN: Precursor homepage as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI'm a fan of https://precursorapp.com/ , but will give excalidraw a go.
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on “End-to-end encryption in the browser”Submitted Product Hunt was a wake up call as a story · 4 points
HN discussionWrong guess. The project's repository has a list of things people built with DataScript. One of those is https://precursorapp.com It's highly usable, stable and fun app!
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on “DataScript: Immutable database and Datalog query engine in ClojureScript”Submitted Ideas are made with Precursor--watch the process designers use to wireframe as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI'm not a huge fan of remote teams for a number of reasons, but I've had some success with https://precursorapp.com/ as a quick collaborative whiteboard. I'd like to be able to use it inside Google Hangouts and have the whole session/artifacts recorded, which would cover a lot of the knowledge-spreading I miss. It doesn't do anything for the camaraderie/happiness/emotional aspects mentioned in the article though.
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on “We Tried Building a Remote Team and It Sucked”Submitted Show HN: Feature Requests for Precursor, Built with Om/React and Datascript as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPrecursor would be very challenging to build in ~120 lines of vanilla JS: https://precursorapp.com
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on “React Enlightenment”Submitted Optimizing Om Apps as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> you need to have a very good excuse to launch something with WebRTC and not support Firefox. I built audio chat over webRTC for https://precursorapp.com [1]. I built support for both Firefox and Chrome, but I can understand why someone would choose not to support Firefox. There are lots of annoying little differences between the two implementations. For example, Firefox wouldn't fire a negotiationneeded event afte…
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on “Dear Slack: why is your WebRTC so weak?”Submitted Precursor–fast prototyping web app, makes collaboration easy as a story · 1 points
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