YDays

Creative drawing challenges with friends

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Creative drawing challenges with friends

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YDays is a site that serves up fun, creative challenges daily for people of all drawing abilities. Each day you’ll get a unique, puzzle-like drawing tool that levels the playing field and sparks your creativity. Compete with and cheer on your friends.

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YDays

Maker

Hey folks 👋, I’m a designer and creative coder from Oakland, and this is my first launch on Product Hunt. I’m excited to share YDays with you! In August 2020, a layoff from work led me to devote my full time to this passion project. I was inspired by a Slack community of lettering artists and type designers I’m part of. We sometimes run challenges: we choose a theme and generate constraints we all need to follow. Then we share our creations, vote our favorites, and post them on Instagram. It’s part accountability, part inspiration, and competition, but above all, it’s super fun. I’ve noticed a lot of people like to make things, but they don’t always get to be creative in their day-to-day life. And creative expression is a great way we get to know our friends and coworkers. When you create a five-day challenge on YDays and invite friends or coworkers, you’ll get a different interactive drawing tool every day. The tools have unusual properties, so part of the fun is discovering what you can make. It’s a bit of a level playing field too since no one will be an “expert” at drawing with a novel tool. I’ve been blown away by what our test users so far have been coming up with in these challenges, and here are some real quotes from users so far: — I'm having a lot of fun! And it's nice to see that even as a s**t drawer I can get somewhere and it's humbling to see what others can do… –Jordan — Once my slow gears kicked in, I LOVED it. I learned to wait for inspiration until I saw the tool. And each day I was excited to see what the new tool would be. –Amy — Loved this whole thing! It was exciting every day to sit down and do a low key doodle. Also loved seeing the creativity of other people and being surprised every day by their results and by the new challenge. It was time-boxed, so I didn’t worry about running out of steam. –Shannon Thanks for your attention, and I hope you give YDays a try. Looking forward to hearing your feedback and suggestions on where you’d like to see it go next! — Send your feedback and suggestions to feedback@ydays.com — Write us with any issues at support@ydays.com — Follow us on Instagram/Twitter: @ydays__

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6yr ago

I love it! I have been enjoying making this part of my routine and just taking some time to draw and relax for a couple of minutes.

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@maria_gonzalez4 Oh, that's great to hear! Thanks, Maria!

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6yr ago

Student Home by Burb

YDays is such a fun ritual to nurture in the morning - a few minutes of creativity to start the day, and also an opportunity to share that silly creativity with friends.

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@alina_votes Awesome, I love how it can bring out silly creativity and in-jokes with friends.

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6yr ago

I loved messing around with the Challenges and the unique tools were so creative and inspiring. I would, and have recommended this product.

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@kay_chasse Glad you’re enjoying it, and thank you so much for recommending it to others!

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6yr ago

Vectopus

Great idea, i just tried it and it is really fun ..and challenging!! Congratulations guys ideas like this are rare to find!

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@ramywafaa Thanks Ramy, that means so much!

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6yr ago

YDays is awesome! Just finished my first 5-day challenge with some coworkers. Excited to do it again!

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6yr ago

Skich

Eah. That’s great! Real creativity booster with huge potential

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@ivan_zenkovich Thanks Ivan, happy to hear any/all feedback from a fellow designer/founder!

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6yr ago

Skich

@ivan_zenkovich @pchocho1, I have a small feedback 1. I think it will be great to have public community challenges, so I can join the existing community instead of creating new with my friends. 2. If I want to be alone in this creative journey, I would prefer daily challenges with the ability to view other's results and share results+link. 3. It will be great to have competition mode with a voting system (e.g. 3/5/7 creators battle :) 4. I really appreciate random drawing tools! 5. Don't like that anyone who joins my challenge should register

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6yr ago

YDays

Maker

@ivan_zenkovich @pchocho1 Awesome, thanks! Will definitely be working more on how the challenges work and other ways you can participate – I appreciate it!

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6yr ago

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