Show HN: Inscribed, create stop motion animation and slide powered by Excalidraw

[chunza2542]

https://inscribed.app/

Inscribed.app, a slide-based tool for creating stop motions animation and slides.

I've been writing a lot of tech content lately and needed a way to create a stop motion to visualize ideas for my blog.

I'm a big fan of Excalidraw and Apple Keynote, so this tool is an attempt to combine the UX of the two together. Sketch like Excalidraw with a slide making interface (with shortcuts) like Apple Keynote.

Features: - keyboard shortcuts: copy/paste/del, up/down navigation - adjust document size - drag and drop images - google fonts integration - presentation mode - export as GIF, or as iframe to embed everywhere you want.

Try it yourself: https://inscribed.app

Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEXE8-6yEzw

Github: https://github.com/chunrapeepat/inscribed

Hope you like it. any feedback is welcome.

[anitil]

What a fantastic idea! I love using excalidraw and I've used it for making slides by just screenshotting and manually editing, this is so much nicer. I really like the example of following a flowchart as well.

One small nit - in your video you use some naughty words, if you're looking to sell this I'd consider dropping that. I probably can't share the video with my colleagues, for example

[chunza2542 → anitil]

i'm glad you like it! for the naughty words, it a list of quote from my fav show, slicon valley, but yeah, i will do it better next times. appreciate your feedback.

[reynaldi → chunza2542]

i think youtube allows you to blur some parts of your video

in case you don’t want to recreate the video

[yoz]

This looks great! I love that it builds on top of existing tools has so many kinds of export already. Thank you so much for sharing it - I'm always looking for good tools for quick animation and presentations.

Like you, I'm a big fan of Keynote. It would be amazing to have Keynote-style smooth animation here too (tweening, easing curves, Magic Move, etc.), though I'm sure it would be a huge project in itself.

[chunza2542 → yoz]

glad you like it! the animation features is interesting, noted.

[igniuss]

Super neat! I made something similar with tldraw for presentations at my company, definitely not as clean as this! I'll be sure to give it a try for my next one

[chunza2542 → igniuss]

you're welcome

[foz]

really nice! do you support onion-skinning for building smoother animations? Motion paths would be cool too. Ok enough ideas, it's a great project already!

[mephitix → foz]

+1, onion skinning was the first thing i was looking for given it was billed as a way to create animation.

Anyway, nice project, cool to see excalidraw hosted like this.

[dmje → mephitix]

Yeh, and duplicate slide option? I may be missing it, on iPad…

[chunza2542 → foz]

noted!

[michaelbrave]

I primarily use excalidraw via a plugin for obsidian, I wonder what amount of effort it would take to get it running on that.

[chunza2542 → michaelbrave]

could you share the use case or elaborate more? (if you want to embed the content there you can edit on the web and export as iframe)

[emrekursun]

It's really a great tool, well done! I enjoy using Excalidraw, and this tool makes a lot of sense, especially with the gif feature. However, would developing such an application cause any licensing issues?

[chunza2542 → emrekursun]

no licensing issues. Excalidraw is published under MIT license. if my project keeps developing, we can contribute some parts back to Excalidraw. this is a win-win.

[reynaldi]

this looks amazing, can't wait to use it for my next articles

also nice job on the video demo, was it made using inscribed? :p

[chunza2542 → reynaldi]

screen studio + capcut + epidermic sound (and a little bit of inscribed xd)

[loa_observer]

Wow, it looks really easy to use.

[chunza2542 → loa_observer]

thanks man

[internet_points]

Pretty cool. I love Excalidraw and use it all the time, this is a nice addition :-)

[chunza2542 → internet_points]

glad you like it.