I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)
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HN · launched Jul 6, 2026 · 10 upvotes (top 46%) · 1 view
Niche: collaborative digital whiteboard software · 43 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The project packages the open-source Excalidraw web library into a native macOS desktop wrapper using Swift/WKWebView or Tauri/Electron.
Discussion
10 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Excalidraw, Electron-based apps
Concerns raised: 100% compatibility with Excalidraw unclear, Gap between features and Excalidraw will take time to bridge
Feature requests: Dedicated undo/redo button in UI, Clarify terminal icon functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1383 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #656 of 1384 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 246 days after the earliest competitor.
- excali-mode · github · 2026-09-28 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Prompt-to-Excalidraw demo with Gemma 4 E2B in the browser (3.1GB) · hn · 2026-04-19 · 163 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Excali-mode · hn · 2026-10-09 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- cli · github · 2026-10-08 · 122 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- emu · github · 2026-09-25 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- obsidian-excalidraw-cli · github · 2026-10-12 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- pymacos · github · 2026-09-27 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- I open-sourced a macOS native Markdown rendering engine · hn · 2026-07-16 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.49
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