Very nice. Was just looking to sketch some diagrams while on zoom with a friend, and resorted to Illustrator for the lack of a better tool. This would’ve done just fine, with much less complexity. Consider integrating with the team at Pop.com (what we use for meetings/sharing)
Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
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Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#52Definitely 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
Here’s another early experiment with the extension. This time using Tldraw as a personal or team Trello style task planner. https://twitter.com/seflless/status/1452296968718401536?s=21
Not sure that this would work for most people , but would for sure for individuals who think I’m sticky notes
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#53Too long didn't raw?
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#54Excellent! I was surprised by some behaviour though, and all of these work in Excalidraw (I'm assuming it's the inspiration):
* When resizing a group of strokes, the resizing happens per stroke instead of as a group which is contrary to what I expected.
* Also during resizing and other operations, it would be good to see the selection outline, at the moment it hides itself which makes it difficult to know how far you've gone from the original position.
* I was expecting the Del key to work for deleting objects.
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#55I’m wonderfully surprised by how often people can have an idea and create something as lovely as this in a short amount of time. The web may have its flaws, but it also empowers this.
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#56What does the TL stand for?
I originally bought the domain tldraw.com for a different project, Telestrator (https://github.com/steveruizok/telestrator), which is an app for drawing on top of your screen during a call / stream. The app is pretty nice if you're on macOS, but I never used the domain.
When this project kicked off, I wanted something that could be saved alongside code as version-controlled documentation, and that was the first time I noticed the "tldr" in "tldraw". So I just used tldraw.com and stole the name!
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#57I like the pressure changes when you draw. Different sized pen/brush would be helpful. As would being able to choose to delete the entire line with the easer or just to erase a little of it off at a time
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#58Gotta love the file extension when saving "tldr" xD
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#59Really nice app. So much finesse. Similar but seemingly simpler than the excellent https://excalidraw.com/ . Tiny thing: I think it would be clearer if the alt tags and menu items showed keyboard shortcuts as "[ctrl][G]" instead of "c t r l G".
Are you on Windows? The context menu seems to be behaving strangely for PCs users, probably a different set of default styles than I saw while developing. :/ Working on it!
Re: Tldraw – a tiny little drawing app
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Sure, this is public info on my profile: https://github.com/sponsors/steveruizok.
I'm up to 211 sponsors, about $1700 per month.
Many of those sponsors are one-time donations. At the beginning, I set the minimum one-time donation to $1; once I reached 100 sponsors, I bumped the minimum up to $10.
The larger sponsors come mostly from digital ink library perfect-freehand (https://github.com/steveruizok/perfect-freehand), also MIT licensed, which is being used by many products such as Next.js live, Milanote, Clover, etc.