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tldraw SDK 4.0

https://tldraw.dev/blog/tldraw-sdk-4-0
37•bpierre•1h ago

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Imustaskforhelp•1h ago
Why is tldraw getting more and more centralized/requiring a special license...

I like tldraw as a software but I used to see tldraw having multiple pages in the same canvas and that had helped me tremendously in the past which It seems is now a sign up feature...

I hope excalidraw can catch up too. The more options and the more truly foss options, the better...

striking•44m ago
> Our 4.0 release includes a new license with changes to where tldraw can be used. Fate and capital both demand that tldraw be a sustainable project, so these changes are designed to help us commercialize the SDK without cutting off community adoption.
alabhyajindal•37m ago
Sharing a link is also a sign up feature now. Didn't tldraw come up after Excalidraw was already quite popular? Seems like a missed opportunity for the latter since tldraw came up after and was able to figure out a business angle for a similar (same?) software.
nextworddev•13m ago
They realized the market is small so they are raising prices
tracker1•50m ago
Wow, that is a pretty hefty license fee...
florians•47m ago
Peanuts if you build a business on top of the SDK.
ricardobeat•14m ago
When you have one already. How do you start building a business though?
steveruizok•9m ago
Yeah, this is the current gap in the offering. Pricing is such whackamole. I expect we’ll offer extended free trials to teams that need longer to get off the ground.
Polarity•39m ago
k thx bye. have fun with the money.
lubitelpospat•31m ago
Great project! If I may ask - how do you guys compare with React Flow? BTW - licensing looks fair, hope the effort that has been put into this project pays off!
steveruizok•12m ago
Hey, thanks! React Flow is more narrowly focused on flow charts and workflows. It’s also MIT licensed and much more popular (looking at NPM installs) and sells premium access to docs and examples, while we license the library directly. Our canvas is more broadly capable, with a default feature set closer to Excalidraw, except that we use React / DOM for the entire canvas, like React Flow does. We also have a very different way of managing the canvas data, closer to a game engine than a controlled React component. I should write some blog posts.

Two of the starter kits we released today are more flowcharty. It’s been possible to make this kind of thing with tldraw for about 18 months, since we made our bindings API, and a few teams have built graph UIs on tldraw already, but I wouldn’t say it’s an easy path. Hopefully these starter kits will make it easier to uh start.

colesantiago•24m ago
That is a massive license fee here.

IMO A 100-day trial is too short to try it.

I would more likely to use tldraw if it had a monthly fee even at $100-$300/mo.

But $6K a year and getting only community support is a huge risk for some SMEs.

ricardobeat•8m ago
I’m curious what the imagined path from idea/development to production is meant to be for projects adopting the SDK.

At what moment do you go from hobby to commercial license (and need $6k in cash)?

If you’re building something new, this is now a platform that locks you into a 90-day window from launch to finding product-market fit. Makes it much less attractive to experiment with.

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