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Agree that close to the metal threeJS gets you best performance but don’t sleep on Unity WebGL.

They announced at their Unite conference a few months ago they were gonna add proper mobile support for it. Nice to see them investing.

Also shameless plug for [https://spatial.io]. With Unity’s URP we can get near AAA visual quality in the browser. Plus hosted multiplayer, chat, native web/mobile/vr apps, etc.

The future is bright for web and no install! And with App Store’s 30% cut the economic winds are at our back!

[https://spatial.io/toolkit]


They've been saying they'll improve the WebGL experience for as long as I can remember.


Agreed. Not only that loading textures etc the whole pipeline is insanely complex.


Unity is useless for web games. Period. I have the scar tissue to prove it. The whole asset management pipeline is just insanely hard to use. Can’t collaborate or even source version control across devs. Compilations suck. The whole box in a box is dumb. It wastes real estate. So much insane friction. Just because of 3d artists and fan boys the whole eco system is a waste of time. Open web tools with hot loading for devs is yeaaars ahead of Unity. And their performance will always suck.


Spatial is a 3D collaborative version of video chat in VR/AR.

4 years in the making, lifelike avatars help you feel like you're sitting next to each other. Collaborate in virtual rooms full of images, videos and 3D models. Join from Oculus Quest, HoloLens, MagicLeap or the web. Free and available now at www.spatial.io


Pretty cool feature set. Didn't realize you could do things like "remember where I parked" automatically.


Doing a startup is really hard. Emotionally grueling and demanding. You have to fight for every 100 users you get. At a bigger company you get 100k's or millions of users "automatically". Right now, I'm more interested in building world changing products that are used by millions, and I feel like my chances for success are higher at a big company since lots of really cool startups die because they couldn't get enough awareness/marketing to get adoption.

"At a startup all your challenges are external. At a big company, all your challenges are internal".

Fwiw, I started a startup that was acquired so I'm also incented to stick around so that probably biases my thinking a bit too.


this is pretty amazing. i love how you've maintained the power & simplicity of a physical whiteboard.


thanks!


I'm a user and their service is different from Google Voice. It's a professional sounding 1-800/voicemail system intended for business, not personal use. "Push 1 for customer service, Push 2 for sales" type of thing.


Grasshopper is a pretty cool service, had some clunky UI though. We use it at BumpTop.com.

They mailed us some chocolate covered grasshoppers recently as a mktg campaign, kinda crazy.


Actual grasshoppers?!


Do you have any suggestions for how we could improve BumpTop?


For starters, it only works with the Desktop folder, not any other folders. Personally, I like to keep my Windows desktop very tidy and so having the power of BumpTop is useless.

It would be great if BumpTop can navigate the full drive and directory tree using the cool features of BumpTop without resorting to Explorer and without being tied to the desktop.


BumpTop already works on any folder :)

We have an experimental "Bump This Folder" shell extension, which provides a little button in Windows Explorer that turns the current view into a BumpTop. It needs to be enabled in the BumpTop settings.


I have 1.6 million files on my computer at the moment. Not sure how they'd map to bumptop. Even just photos; all the demos I've seen limit files to only a dozen or so. How would you manage a few thousand photos?


1.6 million files break down in most viewing paradigms. In BumpTop you can turn on "infinite workspace" and you can have thousands of files. Then use pile by type or date to automatically make that more manageable.


You can also check out a video of BumpTop on big ass touchscreen here: http://www.vimeo.com/1144121

I'm a founder of BumpTop, we loves hacker news.


BumpTop is hiring developers too, all the way up in Toronto, Canada! http://bumptop.com

C++, OpenGL or Flex. Email me if interested anand at bumptop.com


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