{"slug": "show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet", "title": "Show HN: Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet", "summary": "John from Effective Flow has launched Expressed, a Microsoft Store app that lets users draw on their desktop using any phone or tablet, with the desktop projected onto the device for real-time scribbling. The app, developed part-time over 7 months, uses secure relays and QR code pairing, and is available at https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N694D0PN6GB.", "body_md": "Scribble/write on your desktop, with any phone/tablet - I'd like your feedback.\n\nExpressed is a way to make it easy to draw directly on your desktop using any phone or tablet - think along the lines of \"I want to draw (on my screen) to help aid my discussion\". The desktop is projected onto the phone/tablet, so you can actually see what you're about to scribble over - pinch/zoom and various tools provide the typical/expected drawing tools - and whatever you scribble is seen on the desktop.\n\nIf you wanted to try (link to m/soft store): [https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N694D0PN6GB?cid=hn01](https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N694D0PN6GB?cid=hn01)\n\nI've often wanted to scribble in code reviews, brainstorming/ideation - so figured, now that AI makes coding a little easier (cough cough); I'll turn that idea into a product.\n\nIt took me (part time) about 7 months from initial idea, through validation, writing the product, loads of wrong turns (there are monsters in some of those branches, branches? heck that's a FOREST), etc etc to get where it is today - typical story of development I suppose.\n\nNetworking isn't an issue - cos everything runs via secure relays; scan a QR code on a tablet to join.\n\nI'm open to feedback, critique & questions - I'd love it if you let me know if you tried it, found it useful, it crashed or you were surprised by something - I can be reached at john@effective-flow.com or Discord ([https://discord.gg/5MJbjzGQa](https://discord.gg/5MJbjzGQa))\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444779](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49444779)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet", "canonical_source": "https://expressed.effective-flow.com", "published_at": "2026-08-26 06:23:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-26 06:44:58.144334+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["John", "Effective Flow", "Expressed", "Microsoft Store"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-scribble-write-on-your-desktop-with-any-phone-tablet.jsonld"}}