Ruiz: tldraw Hit #1 on Hacker News and 40K Users on Launch Day
Steve Ruiz · The Accidental AI Canvas - with Steve Ruiz of tldraw · Jan 5, 2024 · at 16:24
Steve Ruiz recounts the November 2021 open-source launch of tldraw.
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“There was like number one on Hacker News for a while. It was like the top trending repo on GitHub. A lot of people get, like, 40,000 people showed up at teilder.com to use it on that launch date.”
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