Excalidraw

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92% of the 12 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Excalidraw; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works

• Positive

  “We've forked excalidraw a while ago to allow running excalidraw without firebase as a backend. This can already be self-hosted. It needs some love, but it's a good starting point: *…”

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• Positive

  “I've used Excalidraw as a simple, lo-fi interviewing tool at a few companies for when we want candidates to draw something without having too many tools to get bogged down in making a masterpiece. For me it really hits…”

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• Critical

  “Excalidraw is horrible for this purpose. Don't use it. Excalidraw has this horrible design where placing a shape actually places 2 objects, a shape object and a text object. You type some text and then try to move the…”

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Threads: Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified (2025, 79 comments) · Excalidraw+ (2021, 31 comments) · Excalidraw – a whiteboard tool that lets you sketch hand-drawn diagrams (2020, 21 comments) · One Year of Excalidraw (2021, 19 comments)