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Excalidraw+
Company blog · blog.excalidraw.comdesignprogramming
Excalidraw+ is the company blog at blog.excalidraw.com, writing about design and programming. Since 2020, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “End-to-end encryption in the browser”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-08, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Excalidraw's blog for posts on end-to-end encryption in shared links, peer-to-peer multi-user collaboration, and syncing files with Yjs and the File System Access API.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dive deep into our approach to Excalidraw development. Read more about the challenges we tackle, solutions, major news & milestones from the team.
Most-linked posts?
- End-to-end encryption in the browser5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-03-22
- Excalidraw+3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-03
- Building Excalidraw's P2P Collaboration Feature2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-29
- Reflections on Excalidraw (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-03-23
What Hacker News says?
This blog post on their multi-user support is pretty interesting https://blog.excalidraw.com/building-excalidraw-p2p-collabor...
Comment linking /building-excalidraw-p2p-collaboration-feature/
on “Excalidraw whiteboard – easily sketch diagrams with a hand-drawn feel”Submitted Excalidraw+ as a story · 174 points
HN discussionMore information about the project (I’m unaffiliated, just wanted to learn more!) https://blog.excalidraw.com/reflections-on-excalidraw/
Comment linking /reflections-on-excalidraw/
on “End-to-end encryption in the browser”Submitted End-to-end encryption in the browser as a story · 174 points
HN discussionSuper excited to see that excalidraw made the front page! We published an article yesterday explaining how the end to end encryption works when sharing a link: https://blog.excalidraw.com/end-to-end-encryption/
Comment linking /end-to-end-encryption/
on “End-to-end encryption in the browser”Submitted One Year of Excalidraw as a story · 154 points
HN discussionOk I learnt something today and that's pretty cool: https://blog.excalidraw.com/end-to-end-encryption/
Comment linking /end-to-end-encryption/
on “One Year of Excalidraw”Submitted End-to-End Encryption in the Browser and how we did it in Excalidraw as a story · 15 points
HN discussionThe starting point for this work is really: how can we take what exists (text files) and make it work in a CRDT setting, without tainting the data in any ways. For instance, if you decide to host your data on Git, we want the repo to look exactly the same as if it was a regular code project. We don't look to add another standard on top of existing ones – for instance, we are not aiming to enable "CRDT version histor…
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on “Syncing files between browser and disk using Yjs and the File System Access API”Submitted Building Excalidraw's P2P Collaboration Feature as a story · 7 points
HN discussionIt's okish to implement, here is an example... https://blog.excalidraw.com/end-to-end-encryption/ The harder part is probably from a UX sense, how do you make sure people understand that the key is important, and how do you or not store it on their computer.
Comment linking /end-to-end-encryption/
on “Show HN: Organizedly – Linked notes, todo's, calendar and queries”Submitted Excalidraw+ as a story · 6 points
HN discussionPlug for Excalidraw: https://excalidraw.com/ https://blog.excalidraw.com/ Which, FWIW, supports Apple Pencil and iPad quite well since 2022: https://twitter.com/excalidraw/status/1491044642493992960 As well as a seemingly evergreen release of the Obsidian plugin that gets people Doge levels of Such Wow: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/s58d2o/just_dis... Video walkthrough here: https://github.com/zsviczi…
Comment linking /introducing-excalidraw-plus/
on “The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency”Submitted Deprecating Excalidraw Electron in favor of the Web version as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reflections on Excalidraw (2020) as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted End-to-End Encryption in the Browser (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rethinking the Component API as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Excalidraw – Three for Three as a story · 1 points
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