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Giving AI to your favorite whiteboard, Excalidraw

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I built Open Canvas, another AI wrapper, but this time to your favorite whiteboard tools! Built on top of Excalidraw

HN · launched Nov 2, 2025 · 7 upvotes (top 62%) · 0 views

Niche: collaborative digital whiteboard software · 43 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Content generation
  • Prosumer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes The project is a lightweight UI wrapper around open-source Excalidraw that sends canvas state/prompts to an LLM API to generate or modify whiteboard elements.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 131 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #73 of 132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

  • xdraw · ph · 2026-11-06 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
  • excali-mode · github · 2026-09-28 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.51
  • ShortsCrafter · ph · 2026-11-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • Excali-mode · hn · 2026-10-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
  • Canvas Quiz Solver · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • OpenBoard · ph · 2026-11-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Whiteboard · ph · 2026-09-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • wytboard · ph · 2026-10-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45

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