tldraw
No written verdict yet. Here is what commenters said.
Why people recommend it
“Now, I'm having fun with tldraw.”
“I've been a happy user of tldraw as a whiteboard for ages.”
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“Tldraw seems to be a better medium for this that mermaid”
“use it with tldraw and make drawing boards”
Caveats and dissent
“isRecord is tldraw's fault”
“I don't buy the "it was a joke"”
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“In the tldraw repo, users seem to clone the repo, spin up claude and then make a PR without any kind of “taste” involved.”
“tldraw used to be FOSS but they changed the license in 2023”
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“Built with tldraw and duckdb wasm, running on cloudflare durable objects”
“We use AI tools to develop tldraw.”
Threads where it came up
- Decker 3 mentions
- Stay Away from My Trash 3 mentions
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) 1 mention
- Hubbele: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents 1 mention
- Tldraw Offline 1 mention
- Search for isRecord on any open source codebase 1 mention
Also written as tldraw offline. Data: tldraw.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 18
“Lots of fun tech used: duckDB WASM, Cloudflare Durable Objects, tldraw and pocketbase”
“Now, I'm having fun with tldraw.”
“I was asking if tldraw had a scripting option.”
Is there a scripting language for this? That was what really differentiated HyperCard and made it a replacement for the never-released MacBasic: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
“tldraw just relased "tldraw offline"[1] which in some ways has a lot of overlap with HyperCard as well.”
“I've been a happy user of tldraw as a whiteboard for ages.”
“isRecord is tldraw's fault”
“Tldraw seems to be a better medium for this that mermaid”
“tried out a similar thing but with tldraw as the canvas engine”
“Built with tldraw, duckdb and cloudflare”
“Both Excalidraw and TLDraw are the two most popular apps of their kind”
“I don't buy the "it was a joke"”
“the issue was created by claude using this skill https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/blob/main/.claude/skills/write-issue/SKILL.md”
“I love tldraw”
“In the tldraw repo, users seem to clone the repo, spin up claude and then make a PR without any kind of “taste” involved.”
“tldraw used to be FOSS but they changed the license in 2023”
“use it with tldraw and make drawing boards”
“multiplayer data canvas using tldraw and duckdb WASM”