A creator built a daily drawing app to help friends stay consistent with sketching. The tool encourages one drawing per day within groups, with the maker maintaining a 34-day streak and open teams available for Hacker News users to join.
Lazydraw is a terminal ASCII editor for drawing diagrams and sketches with export capabilities, built on the Bun runtime and OpenTUI. It can be installed globally via Bun or npm and supports mouse input, customizable themes, and autosaving to JSON files. The tool ports drawing logic from ASCIIFlow and includes features like grid rendering, clipboard integration, and multiple export formats.
A developer tested TypeSafe's Jev, a text-only language model, on a drawing-guessing task by converting doodles into SVG coordinates and base64-encoded images. Using 400 drawings from Google's Quick, Draw! dataset across ten object categories, they evaluated how well Jev could classify sketches despite being designed for text input only.