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.
First comments on top threads
HN comment orderI 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.
The first top-level comment from each of the four biggest threads, in HN’s own order. Excerpts are shortened; open a comment for full context.
- 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 |