alt Hacker NewsI use Excalidraw extensively at work. For me, it's really close to perfection.
It has an excellent UI, selections work way better than Lucid or Figma etc, the sketchy look makes it clear designs are rough and not blueprints, it's private and loads instantly.
The one negative is that it's a pain to get the multiplayer self-hosted version running.
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foobarian • today at 3:12 PM
My favorite aspect of it is the keyboard shortcuts. It makes things so much faster.
fabbbbb • today at 8:52 AM
I was surprised about that, too. Tried a bit but found very few sources online.
A self-hosted version with storage (multiplayer) plus any Claude access would be a killer setup for team planning etc and let us drop Miro.
ndezt • today at 9:13 AM
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The company where I'm contracted retired Excalidraw in favor of Lucid and, while I understand that big companies are going to go with big, enterprise-y solutions, what went from a weekly "sketch something out to help with communicating my ideas" turned into "once every few months I begrudgingly document something".
Excalidraw is excellent for low-friction sketches.