I'd like to echo the impressiveness of tldraw. At the BigBlueButton project, an open source virtual classroom, we built tldraw into the core. It has saved us countless development hours as we stopped trying to build our own whiteboard and instead stood on tldraw's (very) wide shoulders. We've never looked back.
Tldraw Computer
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#42I'm not 100% sure why, but this is incredibly compelling to me as a fun developer-y thing. I want to use this.
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#43Hey, Steve here from tldraw.
We had a bunch of fun putting this together so I'm really happy to see folks enjoying it. I'm not sure where the project is going but I've been waking up for weeks with a fresh "oh christ, we could do ___", so that's exciting.
Ask me anything!
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#44TLDraw is fascinating, but I feel like when I see them tweet cool stuff it isn’t actually in the app. This is likely me being dumb but since it happened a couple times now whenever I see their posts I assume the same.
I think they tweet prototypes and then don't ship most prototypes. Seems reasonable to me, otherwise you have instant bloat.
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#45Even "vanilla" tldraw is super cool as a clean, functional, open-source html5 whiteboard, and the team have absolutely been killing it in their comms and use of LLMs. I honestly think they might be some of the most innovative people around when it comes to really novel UI for LLMs. Also, Todepond is just very cool.
does the cloud product’s “new project” button still trash your saved documents with one click behind a docstring something like “make sure you have saved your stuff before making a new project” where what they meant is “our cloud product does not save your projects to the cloud, it is in local storage actually and you can only have one project at a time so the new project button actually overwrites your old one, so w…
So sorry Dustin. We'll have a new version of tldraw with user accounts in a few weeks that should improve things, but until then please no one clear your browser storage
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#46This is basically ComfyUI but for LLMs, is that right? I know tldraw as the open source Excalidraw competitor but this is an interesting product as well.
Excalidraw is more open source than we are at tldraw! We're both source available on GitHub but Excalidraw is MIT while the newer versions of tldraw are a kind of watermark-ware. (We still have an older MIT version available but not in development)
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#47Can someone tell me what this does? Is it draw a diagram and it will automatically implement it in code?
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#48THIS is it. I have been using tldraw with one of my friends or even generally when my whiteboard marker goes down and I wish to draw. Seriously tldraw makes sharing whiteboards so easier as compared to excalidraw and others. TLDRAW deserves more attention than excalidraw and I watched its demo video and holy moly , this is so crazy , the fact that this can create semi websites and etc. feels so cool , definitely goin…
Excalidraw is free & open source software though, which IMO makes it deserve more attention
Oof, source available, that is an oversight on my end. Or was there a recent license change? Off the shortlist then, unfortunately.
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#49THIS is it. I have been using tldraw with one of my friends or even generally when my whiteboard marker goes down and I wish to draw. Seriously tldraw makes sharing whiteboards so easier as compared to excalidraw and others. TLDRAW deserves more attention than excalidraw and I watched its demo video and holy moly , this is so crazy , the fact that this can create semi websites and etc. feels so cool , definitely goin…
In excalidraw I just have to click share session and anyone with that url can see my whiteboard and interact with it. I get tldraw has much more features etc. but how exactly is it making sharing whiteboard so easier compared to excalidraw?
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#50Why though ?
IIRC they took VC money a year or so ago? Interesting product and obviously awesome execution, as expected from tldraw… but yeah… seems like a very strange departure from what Steve has been building the past few years.
yep, more news on that soon
The core product / pitch is still the same—an SDK for whiteboards and other infinite canvas stuff—and that's what we monetize through licenses. Computer (and our other demos) are basically marketing, R&D, and fun.