tldraw

The observability platform for the AI era, running on the canvas for the AI era We love what Honeycomb has built with tldraw! Go give Canvas a try. If you're building something for human and agent collaboration get in touch.

We just shipped version 5.0 of the tldraw SDK. Get more ways to customize styles and themes, a new canvas overlay system, user attribution, mermaid diagrams, and more. Check out our full release notes and blog post in the comments below

Hello #6

Make the canvas look and feel exactly how you want. In our next release we're unlocking complete control over colors, fonts, borders, full canvas themes, etc - letting you customize your application however you want. What are you going to build with it?

Mermaid diagrams are everywhere. Every LLM loves putting them together and they can be great for planning or docs. But once they're generated the diagrams are frozen. You can't move things around, easily add onto them, or bring them easily into your app. In the next tldraw release you'll be able to add mermaid as shapes on the canvas, move them around, share them, or completely customize how they're rendered. Or try it right now. Paste some mermaid code on tldraw.com and it will convert straight to shapes. Want to nerd out on how we actually render mermaid as shapes? Blog post down below in the comments

Working with others on the canvas is great. But what about when you need to know who created what? In tldraw 5.0, the next iteration of tldraw's SDK, we're giving each shape a paper trail so you never have to guess. 🎒 For a busy classroom with teachers monitoring multiple students 🧑🎨 For designers ensuring each change is clearly attributed 📝 For internal tooling needing an audit trail Attribution is on the way (along with plenty more to come...)

It's not everyday that tldraw finds itself at number 10 - but last week had one of those days! Huge thanks to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence for inviting our very own Steve Ruiz to join the important discussion on how the UK approaches the huge (and eternally evolving) topic of AI. Proud to be here in the UK and to be part of this debate.

Companies like Preview, our latest customer, are exactly why we have a startup program. Canvas infrastructure is hugely complicated, and that's before layering in some of the features you'll need to build on top of it. Notably collaboration - one of the many reasons that Stefan F. & the Preview team opted to build their (awesome) AI video production engine on the tldraw canvas. Get in touch to learn more if you're building your own product - beginning to feel like it's weirder not to have a canvas-based app...

From one best-in-class to another 🫡 Reach out if you're thinking of building your own canvas-based product. We're fairly good at that sort of thing

Our newest customer's use-case is about the furthest thing from an April Fool you can imagine - but we don't want to steal honeycomb.io's thunder... All that we can say: if the reaction their tldraw-powered product received at their recent event (thanks for having us along!) is anything to go by, we're in for a very cool announcement when the team ships.