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Show HN:I Made a Mac Native Excalidraw (Open Sourced)
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- z_phxd 3mo agoHey all, this is a fun project I made to take your desktop and provide a seamless excalidraw experience on the Mac totally free. I wanted to build something intuitive, lightweight (3.4 MB) and completely swift native. It's designed for power users. It provides a borderless whiteboard pinned to your desktop layer. Quick hotkeys to access and use. If you want it will leave the architecture behind your files on your desktop after your flip it off. link files, connect to obsidian, integrates with your apple ecosystem. MCP enabled. Would love your thoughts. Thanks! https://github.com/zpphxd/whitespace https://github.com/zpphxd/whitespace
- z_phxd 3mo agoIll touch on how we got it so lightweight. The final DMG is 3.4MB. It's drawing everything with core graphics. Other apps bundle electron apps which at minimum is 100mb. Every framework it uses ships with macOS, so the bundle contains just the binary, one dependency (Sparkle, for auto-updates), a 60 KB font, and a small PNG.
- datduyng 3mo agoI did some testing. 3MB is incredible. What is your plan to ensure this app is 100% compatible with Excalidraw?
- z_phxd 3mo agoI made sure whitespace render 90%+ or so excalidraw features. Upon new node that excalidraw implement, it preserve. Nothing is loss. Over the time, the gap will be bridge
- michael-jirl 3mo agoNo undo/redo features built in?
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- akshayKMR 3mo agoYour website design is beautiful. In the screenshots I saw a terminal-like icon in toolbar, whats that for?
- z_phxd 3mo agoThank you!! you can run code within the whiteboard if you want. Connect the terminals together and they will connect as well.
- alfredhchan 3mo agoAwesome!!