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Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

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post #30

"New Project" asks if you want to "Save your current project" and the options are "Yes" and "Cancel". I would expect Cancel to cancel the new project rather than losing the current work, and would expect a "No" option instead to mean lose the current project.

Good call! Pushing a fix for that now.

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#42

Hey, author here! Glad folks are enjoying this. A few notes: - I post a _lot_ about tldraw on Twitter. If you're curious about how this came together, or want to follow along as we ship new features, check out my timeline ( https://twitter.com/steveruizok ). - The whole tldraw project is MIT licensed and open source ( https://github.com/tldraw ). And it's still in development! If you'd like to contribute, join the Di…

This looks great! The stroke smoothing seems really aggressive though. It's hard to write as neatly as I can in other apps.

How tied to React is this? Could it be used without it, or adapted to that?

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#43

Sorry, since this was posted a month ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28854949 ) highlighting that it was sponsorware. It is now open-sourced and free also.

Saving a Google search for the uninitiated (me): ``` Simply stated, the “Sponsorware” model for releasing a project is made up of a few simple steps: Build something people want! – This is easier said than done, but we believe this model works best for open source projects with significant pre-release hype. The more interest you are able to build in your product before launch, the better your results are likely to be…

Happy to answer any questions about this. If you're considering this kind of approach for a new project, I'd really recommend it, especially for projects that you plan to release in stages. My strategy with tldraw was to pair the sponsorware'd app with steady content about the its development. It worked pretty well!

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#49

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Saving a Google search for the uninitiated (me): ``` Simply stated, the “Sponsorware” model for releasing a project is made up of a few simple steps: Build something people want! – This is easier said than done, but we believe this model works best for open source projects with significant pre-release hype. The more interest you are able to build in your product before launch, the better your results are likely to be…

Happy to answer any questions about this. If you're considering this kind of approach for a new project, I'd really recommend it, especially for projects that you plan to release in stages. My strategy with tldraw was to pair the sponsorware'd app with steady content about the its development. It worked pretty well!

Awesome. Are you open to sharing some #'s? How many people sponsored this?

Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app

#50
Definitely checkout the VS Code extension so you can version control diagrams/drawings along side your code.

Works on VS Code for Desktop, github.dev, vscode.dev, GitHub Codespaces.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tldraw-o...

Some thoughts on the extension and workflows are here: https://twitter.com/seflless/status/1446892923661045767?s=20

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