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Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Figma. It's not all that useful for actually mimicking a whiteboard, in the sense of drawing arbitrary shapes with a pen. It has a pencil tool, but it's not great. Fortunately, most of what we do is drawing rectangles with text in them and lines between them, and it's pretty good at that. Plus, it supports undo with cmd-z, which most whiteboard apps don't seem to.

+1 here. Figma's collaboration features are also just incredible so many people can participate simultaneously, and make copies w/ their own versions.

We've got ours also well setup with a big library of assets like buttons, and illustrations we've had made, and different example charts, so if what you're discussing is a new feature or landing page it's really easy to drag in a bunch of ready-made components to express your idea.

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This seems very good: https://awwapp.com/

Thanks! Cofounder here, happy to answer any questions. While AWW has been around for some time we've seen a big surge (~6x) in the past two months due to current situation (as did most online/collaborative tools). While AWW can be used directly on site, we also have an embeddable version, for example some interviewing startups use us as part of their web-based interviewing workflows. Edit to add: AWW was launched her…

Your story is very motivating and the website is very fast.

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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I love https://excalidraw.com Christopher Chedeau did a recent talk on nice challenges they had building it in the open https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fix2-SynPGE I want to build a plugin for Figma to embed Excalidraw inside Figma as I use Figma for all my design work already.

I like the look and UX of this, but I can't seem to draw on Safari. Anyone know a workaround?

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Mural.co - other than miro, it allows unlimited anonymous co-editing without a need to sihn on. Since we use it only occasionally, we just have a single facilitator account for the team

I've used Mural.co quite successfully as well. I think we probably bought an enterprise license. Collaborative, full-featured, almost as good as a whiteboard/butcher paper and a tall stack of stickie notes.

I experienced two longer outages though in the last momth, both times during workshops. I'm keeping screenshpts on a google slides deck as a backup for the more important events at least until the growth pains have subsided.

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I love excalidraw.com A quick shoutout to our service, we embedded excalidraw in our pair programming solution that helps you do system design interviews effectively: https://www.hackerrank.com/products/codepair/

Indeed. Excalidraw is really good... has an end-to-end encrypted collaboration mode... and is MIT-licensed.

https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw

Re: Ask HN: What collaborative whiteboard are you using?

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Google Jamboard + Wacom Intuos tablet with stylus [1] [1] https://www.wacom.com/en-us/products/pen-tablets/wacom-intuo...

Which hardware are you using exactly? There are a lot of different price points; I’d love to find the cheapest that is still good enough to be useful.

I’m using the one with Bluetooth support. You can go even cheaper by picking the USB only model.
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