Tldraw Computer
If I can plug my own API key into this and/or run Llama locally, that'd be great.
It reminds me of a tool I saw recently called Heuristica [0]. Would like to try it but I don't like being tied to a subscription and the free plan seems quite limited if I can't even plug my own key in. Don't see why this can't do what Heuristica does! :)
First thought: “Pepe Silvia! Pepe Silvia! I got boxes of Pepe Silvia!”
Second thought: is this meant to work in mobile as well or not really? Tried it on chrome IOS and could not move the tiles around.
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.
I got to see this demo'd at a conference in Sydney recently, and it's really cool.
It's not super serious, but it's not meant to be -- it's not pitching to be your enterprise AI strategy. However, even though it's presented in a playful way, I suspect it's quite powerful, and expect The Internets will build some cool stuff atop it.
It's a fun and creative way to explore playing with LLM's, and it's brilliantly executed! Happy to see it here on HN.
I'd like to echo the impressiveness of tldraw. At the BigBlueButton project, an open source virtual classroom, we built tldraw into the core. It has saved us countless development hours as we stopped trying to build our own whiteboard and instead stood on tldraw's (very) wide shoulders. We've never looked back.
I want to use Tldraw as a simpler alternative to Figma. I want to drag and drop Web Components (or React components) into the canvas to play around with different UI ideas. Maybe a built in library of Shadcn components I could mock up an UI with.
How does this differ from https://dify.ai/ and the many others in this space?
This has been the best UI for my kids to get excited about AI and simple visual programming, they're having tonnes of fun playing around and creating cool image workflows with it.
This is such a cool toy!
I'm curious how the internal prompting works in certain cases, and whether there's any way to customize a particular module's default or hidden prompt. Particularly with speech. I was trying to get it to sing a made-up Christmas carol, with generate lyrics and chords. I tried a bunch of different ways, but at best the speech module would only read it out. In one funny case, the speech module added on its own beforehand: "a spoken-word piece".
I made a "Cuisine Synthesizer". [Edit: Updated to "Fusion Food Truck Simulator"]. I love how easy this was to snap together! https://computer.tldraw.com/p/m15giebhYxD6RfWmho7R5J
Can someone tell me what this does? Is it draw a diagram and it will automatically implement it in code?
Even "vanilla" tldraw is super cool as a clean, functional, open-source html5 whiteboard, and the team have absolutely been killing it in their comms and use of LLMs. I honestly think they might be some of the most innovative people around when it comes to really novel UI for LLMs. Also, Todepond is just very cool.
Didn't expect the blog post to go to a Google Gemini page: https://ai.google.dev/showcase/tldraw
I was thinking of developing something similar, but it ended up being one of the thousands of ideas that never end with a line of code. I'm glad to see it here.
Visual programming is a tempting idea I love. It rarely works, but this might be the case.
I think there is a lot of room for AI UIs - between chats (the simplest and most prevalent) and arbitrary code (even if it is "just API calls", it is only people with at least some software inclination).
One thing I am keeping track of is WordWare (https://www.wordware.ai/), which makes it easy to create a sequence of operations. It feels like an "Excel formulas of AI".
Yet, I like the visual, graph-based approach of Tldraw.
This is actually a really nice interface for working with generative AI.
This seems like it could be really powerful and actually useful.
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!
Looks like an interesting project for sure, but they make it really hard to try out. At first, this submission links to a blog post with information and in the middle, a bunch of demos laid out in a grid.
I clicked on one of them, which took me to the actual app. When trying to click the button to generate something, it asks me to login/sigup. Fine, I signup. Then once finishing the sign up, I land on some sort of index page with tutorials and "my projects", but not at the demo I first wanted to see.
So I go back to HN, to this submission, click on the link but it still takes me to this index view instead of the blog post/page I first read. I just wanted to see what happened when I clicked the button inside the app...
THIS is it.
I have been using tldraw with one of my friends or even generally when my whiteboard marker goes down and I wish to draw.
Seriously tldraw makes sharing whiteboards so easier as compared to excalidraw and others.
TLDRAW deserves more attention than excalidraw and I watched its demo video and
holy moly , this is so crazy , the fact that this can create semi websites and etc. feels so cool , definitely going to try it
Steve,
I'd like to know if I can use the SDK to build workflow/process diagrams that specify inputs, outputs, and side effects (ie, this process creates a pile of logs or documentation) and then export a process specification for use in another application.
My specific use case is process mapping and quality systems implementation in a hardware engineering setting.
I'm not 100% sure why, but this is incredibly compelling to me as a fun developer-y thing. I want to use this.
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.
Question: Is there any way to induce randomness? Given two lists, instructions that say "Pick a random item from each list" consistently returns the same two items.
Can someone explain, apart from the license, what is the main differentiating factor between this and excalidraw?
This would be fantastic as a component for versioning, testing, editing and sharing both simpeler prompting and """agentic ai""" systems!
I see just an email signup thing, can't figure out if i can slap this onto the ai backends I'm building
I'm new to this and maybe a bit dense.
Is the magic here making a flow chart / workflow where sample data is generated to make it easier to visualize and you can update and see the results?
Such a nice visual spin to interact with LLMs, great work by the team
This cool but comfyui has been doing this for years.
creativity of tldraw keeps impressing me
Why though ?
This can be a good tool to teach kids programming/generative-ai
Ah, I didn't expect that this soon
I'd love a "Code" component where you could enter arbitrary code. After following the tutorials I asked myself "What would I like to make?" And I imagined a tweet-bot - grab headlines from Wiki news (or somewhere), combine with an instruction to generate text and another couple instructions to generate an image, post to twitter (or bluesky).
This seems easy enough if I have a code component that could execute arbitrary code. I could just write a couple small component (take API key, text, post to twitter/search wikinews) and add them to the workflow. If the components I needed were generalizable I could share them on some kind of community repository - so the next person who needed a "Post to twitter" component wouldn't even need to rewrite it.
So this is what Arroost was leading into.
Seems very cool
How's it different than draw.io?
Tldraw computer – how does it work? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn1De5uwrlY Steve from tldraw gives a tour of how tldraw.computer handles AI generation on the canvas, including a peek at prompts and models.
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.
tldr: needs email to play with it
this looks like the workflows in gumloop.com
After reading the blog post, I don’t really understand what this is. The blog post seems to go out of its way to only make allusions and not explain what this actually is and does.