Slapdash Reviews

Storyboard That Reviews

1. Tina Hargaden

   | Principal Teacher at CI Liftoff | over 3 years ago
   I Use Storyboard That Every Day

   As a former classroom teacher of French and Spanish, English Language Arts, and Social Studies, my business now is creating resources for language teachers to tell stories and teach about culture, geography, history, and other content...in a language that may be quite new to the students. So, with that kind of work, you can bet I am always on the lookout for the best tools to visually scaffold the information so it is easier to understand through pictures, icons, and other design elements. I use Storyboard That almost every single day in my work on these materials. Since the resources are for (mostly) children and teens, I prefer a comic or cartoon-y style. Storyboard That is my go-to "character generator." I use it to make and pose characters into scenes and then I combine these groups of characters with Canva, to create PNGs that I then make into presentations for giving mini-lessons in class, texts for kids to read in class, etc. For me, Canva AND Storyboard That together are the perfect solution, and the price is right, for my purposes, as Pixton (which integrates directly with Canva) charges about $500 a year for the rights to replicate your work using their library for commercial purposes, whereas Storyboard That is only $12 or so a month, which includes that permission level for your original compositions. Pixton without that level of permission is about $40 a month, so you would need to think about what the integration of the two would be worth for you in terms of efficiency or the available images and effects in Pixton. For $144 a year, Storyboard That is an excellent option for me. And for free, you can create three active storyboards at a time, so you could potentially use it and never pay a dime.

   🏁 Competitors: Pixton

   👍 Pros:    Allows commercial use of your designs using their elements|Has a free option that allows you to make three active storyboards|Affordable price|Good range of racially-diverse characters

   👎 Cons:    Interface needs improvement|The dragging and clicking is often cumbersome for me.|No canva integration (pixton integrates with canva directly but costs substantially more)

Slapdash mentions (4)

• Launch HN: Needl (YC S22) – Simple search across all your apps

  How do you compre to https://slapdash.com? - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How to add a website-specific search to the toolbar

  Maybe slapdash is what you are looking for. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)

  Slapdash (YC W19) - Remote - https://slapdash.com/ We have built a low-latency file system for your cloud application as well as the fastest interface in the world - the Command Bar - to interact with it. It's a new type of type of tool that makes modern computer work less tedious and more fun. We are hiring for three engineering roles:

    * Infrastructure Engineer - build infra that turns cloud apps...

  - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Launch HN: Superpowered (YC W21) – Calendar in your menu bar

  I tried out Superpowered and while it's more polished than its competitors, it has a few downsides other commenters have already touched upon (pricing, memory use, and personally, the name hits too close to home to Superhuman.) I've found that the best alternative is Slapdash. [0] Connect your calendar and then just hit cmd + J and boom -- Zoom is running. Many more connections are amazing as well, eg. Deep... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

Storyboard That mentions (1)

• I want to learn to letter comics. Where do I start?

  If you're feeling overwhelmed, you can also use free comic book making software like storyboardthat.com. Source: almost 2 years ago