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Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by steveruizok »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #26
amne wrote: post #21

tldr: needs email to play with it

I think its decent considering it requires money , and even chatgpt in its early stages didn't allow for anonymous chats / unlimited chats and I remember going on all these chatgpt clones becuase of that. I also understand the hilarious spin that you added considering tldr (too long didn't read) lmao. but still its worth your email. Crazy how I realised that tldr meme after I had written the first paragraph

believe it or not I picked the tldraw name because I already owned the domain (I'd bought it for a different project called telestrator) and it was only weeks later when Francois Laberge complimented the clever name that I noticed the portmanteau

Re: Tldraw Computer

#52

Post by rapnie »

rapnie wrote: post #48
forty wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yep, license change from Apache 2.0 in December 2023.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by nightowl_games »

boomskats wrote: post #27

I ended up at Tldraw's London office a few weeks ago for a thing, and I remember afterwards being like 'ahh, now I understand how they end up just casually doing random cool shit and attracting the kind of talent they do'. They should be extremely proud of the culture they've managed to foster and I genuinely hope to see them succeed as a business.

Tell us more about what you saw?

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by zamfi »

steveruizok wrote: post #43

Hey, 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!

Hi Steve! Super cool implementation.

Any chance you’ll make the source available?

There are about 50 extensions I’d make to it if I could! (And I’m sure I’m not alone.)

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by tantalor »

pipes wrote: post #47

Can someone tell me what this does? Is it draw a diagram and it will automatically implement it in code?

users create workflows from blocks of text, images, and instructions. When run, information flows from one component to the next, with the output of each generation serving as the input to the next, creating powerful processes that branch, loop, and iterate to produce outputs

It's Yahoo! Pipes for AI.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by steveruizok »

bentt wrote: post #33

TLDraw 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.

Yeah we did a lot of work this summer that was really far out, maybe too far out, and didn't come together as a product. We shipped a lot of it in teach.tldraw.com though. Computer is exciting to me in part because it feels both very weird and also intelligible as a piece of software.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by dfilppi »

samwillis wrote: post #29
boomskats wrote: post #27

I ended up at Tldraw's London office a few weeks ago for a thing, and I remember afterwards being like 'ahh, now I understand how they end up just casually doing random cool shit and attracting the kind of talent they do'. They should be extremely proud of the culture they've managed to foster and I genuinely hope to see them succeed as a business.

Very much this! I was also at a thing at their office a few weeks ago (some thing? "Local Thirst"), and Steve gave a demo of this. It is incredible. I've joked before that the last generation of human machine interfaces ware invented at Xerox park, and the next generation is being invented at TLDraw of Finsbury Park. But it's not really a joke, I genuinely believe it.

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Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by EgoIncarnate »

satvikpendem wrote: post #12

This 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.

TLDraw relicensed about a year ago. It is under a permissive license, but no longer strictly open source ('watermark-ware").

https://tldraw.dev/ FAQ: Is the tldraw SDK open source? Our license is not exactly Open Source but you can view the source code on GitHub. We accept contributions from the community and work in public.

Re: Tldraw Computer

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Post by llamaimperative »

steveruizok wrote: post #50
llamaimperative wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Ah I see!

Well if you're looking for fun stuff... could you make a tool that lets me easily breadboard [1] an app, and then you GenAI it into a low-fidelity clickable prototype?

As always, excellent execution on this, Steve!

[1]: https://basecamp.com/shapeup/1.3-chapter-04#breadboarding

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