Submission timeline
2007–2026One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.
Top comments
I always end back with monodraw. Other apps have too many features and style possibilities that you forget about the content. With monodraw I never get distracted. However, it still has enough functionality that you can achieve a lot of things. One of my favorites are the anchors. I have even created a small demo/tutorial: https://tamasruss.com/articles/monodraw-anchors
Awesome. This is the cleanest ascii-art tool I've seen, so far. To date, I've been using https://asciiflow.com/#/ and https://meatfighter.com/ascii-silhouettify/ to create input text for TerminalTextEffects to create terminal animations like the following: https://chrisbuilds.github.io/terminaltexteffects/img/change... https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects
Long-time user here. Laying out newsletters, flow charts, diagrams, and figlets. It has very few issues these days, and only a couple minor points of frustration in the UI. For my purposes, it's the best thing out there. A couple of workflow tips for using Monodraw: * Open a few docs in Monodraw at a time and leave them open for your different needs: text boxes, figlets, diagrams. Each with a few elements already waiting to be filled, cut &…
The support for ER diagrams etc looks pretty cool.
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HN stats
- Breakout years
- 3
- Total points
- 1946
- Total comments
- 500
100+ points or 50+ comments
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-11-19 | Monodraw – Powerful ASCII art editor designed for the Mac | robin_reala | 4 | 1 |
| 2018-05-04 | Monodraw, an ASCII Art Editor for Mac | okanesen | 3 | 1 |
| 2019-06-03 | Monodraw: ASCII Art Editor (macOS) | tosh | 1 | 1 |
| 2021-07-08 | Monodraw – macOS ASCII art editor | peterkos | 2 | 3 |
| 2021-07-14 | Monodraw: ASCII art editor for the MacFirst breakout | keehun | 335 | 102 |
| 2024-03-09 | MonodrawHall induction · Best thread | saikatsg | 996 | 200 |
| 2025-08-27 | MonodrawLatest 20+ point return | mafro | 605 | 192 |