Excalidraw's AI Tool – useful and underrated
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This is an advert
I checked out the poster:
1. They don't seem to have any affiliation with the company
2. Excalidraw doesn't seem to have any sort of affiliate program
3. "Why is Excalidraw so good?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995
I think a lot of people just like it that much
1. They don't seem to have any affiliation with the company
2. Excalidraw doesn't seem to have any sort of affiliate program
3. "Why is Excalidraw so good?" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29109995
I think a lot of people just like it that much
Haha, appreciate the extra checks.
Sometimes you get so much value out of a free service you feel the need to tell the world :)
Sometimes you get so much value out of a free service you feel the need to tell the world :)
The AI tool is actually quite good, too. I use it to generate sequence diagrams pretty frequently.
I use mermaid.js a lot but not enough that I an fluent in the DSL. So I pump things into excalidraw's AI and tell it to create the mermaid chart. It gets my 80% of the way and I tweak/extend from there. If nothing else its awesome for that
I tweeted about using Excalidraw's AI tool recently: https://x.com/olshansky/status/1824168148867629340
I have a hunch that because it's not a standalone tool or a GitHub repo, it didn't get the love it deserved.
Aside from ChatGPT/Claude and Supermaven/Copilot, this has been one of the best AI tools I use on an almost daily basis.
Anytime I need to build a diagram, the first 50% (if not more) is done with this tool. I even have the option of a mermaid diagram for our docs or a pretty diagram for marketing material.
Like any AI tool, don't expect it to be perfect or get you 100% of the way there, but it will definitely save you some time and solve the blank page problem.