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1. the drawing-app experiments · tldraw-eras · 2020–2021 (approximate)

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     "summary": "a painter turned design engineer ships taste-driven canvas libraries — perfect-arrows, perfect-freehand, globs.design — then starts 'a tiny little drawing app' as sponsorware and opens it to everyone in november 2021.",
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2. the company forms · tldraw-eras · 2022–2023 (approximate)

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     "summary": "the project becomes a company: founded february 2022, first hires, a $2.7m lux-led seed announced with the beta, and the v2 rewrite that replaces the original app.",
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3. the viral fortnight · tldraw-eras · 2023 (year)

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     "summary": "five weeks that define the company: gpt-4v launches, make real goes viral, a $2m insider extension closes, draw fast follows — then the license changes.",
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4. the sdk business · tldraw-eras · 2024–2025 (approximate)

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     "summary": "the sdk becomes the business: v2 stable, the watermark compromise, sync, tldraw computer with google deepmind, and a $10m series a on ~$1m of license revenue.",
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5. the license-key era · tldraw-eras · 2025– (approximate)

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     "summary": "production needs a license key: sdk 4.0 gates the sdk, fairies run for one december, external prs get auto-closed over ai slop — and the demos keep shipping.",
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6. the perfect-* libraries · tldraw-timeline · 2020 (year) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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7. globs.design · tldraw-timeline · 2021-03-12 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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8. the repo is created · tldraw-timeline · 2021-05-09 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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9. full-time, adobe declined · tldraw-timeline · 2021-07 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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10. the sponsorware post · tldraw-timeline · 2021-10-13 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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11. the public launch · tldraw-timeline · 2021-11-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "date": "2021-11-18",
      "detail": "opened to everyone mid-november; hits the hn front page — 471 points, 111 comments. mit licensed; multiplayer on a pre-release liveblocks build; a vs code extension already shipped; the monorepo carries @tldraw/core, @tldraw/tldraw, @tldraw/vec, @tldraw/intersect, and an electron app. the name is a play on tl;dr — 'tl;dr aw.'",
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12. tldraw incorporated · tldraw-timeline · 2022-02 (month) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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13. the first senior engineer · tldraw-timeline · 2022-06 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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14. the early bench · tldraw-timeline · 2022-09 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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15. the $2.7m seed · tldraw-timeline · 2022-11-30 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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16. the techcrunch profile · tldraw-timeline · 2022-12-16 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "techcrunch profiles the company: five full-time employees, no revenue beyond github sponsors, multiplayer rooms with no login — framed against figjam inside the pending adobe–figma deal, miro, and apple's week-old freeform.",
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17. signia · tldraw-timeline · 2023-03-02 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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18. the v2 relaunch · tldraw-timeline · 2023-04-04 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the rewrite leaves beta and replaces the app at tldraw.com, per the march 20 re-launch notice. v1 is preserved at old.tldraw.com 'until the end of time,' later moved to the tldraw/tldraw-v1 repo under mit.",
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19. taha hassan joins · tldraw-timeline · 2023-08 (month) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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20. gpt-4v arrives · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-06 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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21. draw-a-ui · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-08 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "figma engineer sawyer hood ships draw-a-ui — a tldraw <tldraw/> component wired to gpt-4v that turns a sketch into working html. the show hn thread is modest (43 points); the real distribution is x, and the repo passes 10k stars in two weeks.",
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22. make real · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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23. the starter template · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-17 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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24. the $2m extension · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-22 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "a $2m insider extension is announced — amplify, lux, and preston-werner ventures — closed 'a week before going viral.' the post lists a london office and a team of ruiz, sheldrick, wilson, bezenšek, dytrych, hassan.",
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25. draw fast · tldraw-timeline · 2023-11-27 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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26. the license change · tldraw-timeline · 2023-12-20 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the license changes: pr #2167 (december 19) swaps the sdk to a bespoke 'tldraw license' adapted from the scratch license, enabling dual-licensing revenue; sdk v2.0.0-beta.1 ships with it december 20. v1 stays mit 'forever'; prior 2.x pre-releases stay apache-2.0. ruiz's line — 'open source is a spectrum' — becomes the flashpoint.",
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27. sdk 2.0 stable · tldraw-timeline · 2024-02-29 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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28. a head of engineering · tldraw-timeline · 2024 (year) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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29. carry on and teach · tldraw-timeline · 2024 (year) · reported (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "the agent experiments continue off-product: 'carry on' canvas autocomplete (lu wilson on claude haiku, taha hassan on a local llama3 8b) and 'teach' — a summer project where an agent manipulates the canvas, built by ruiz, wilson, and engineer-in-residence orion reed.",
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30. tldraw sync · tldraw-timeline · 2024-08-05 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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31. the watermark compromise · tldraw-timeline · 2024-09-13 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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      "detail": "sdk v3.0.0 ships the watermark model: commercial use permitted with a 'made with tldraw' watermark; a business license removes it — 'meant to make the sdk more accessible to small teams and independent developers with commercial products.' a softening of the december 2023 line, not a reversal.",
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32. tldraw computer · tldraw-timeline · 2024-12-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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33. the $10m series a · tldraw-timeline · 2025-04-09 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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34. sdk 4.0 gates production · tldraw-timeline · 2025-09-18 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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35. sdk 4.2 · tldraw-timeline · 2025-11-19 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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36. fairies · tldraw-timeline · 2025-12-01 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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37. lu wilson leaves · tldraw-timeline · 2025-12 (month) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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38. the ai-slop firewall · tldraw-timeline · 2026-01-15 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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39. the tests-to-closed-source joke · tldraw-timeline · 2026-02-25 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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40. the mcp app post · tldraw-timeline · 2026-03-03 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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41. sdk 5.0 · tldraw-timeline · 2026-05-07 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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42. tldraw offline · tldraw-timeline · 2026-07-16 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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43. tldraw flash · tldraw-timeline · 2026-09-10 (day) · confirmed (original editorial confidence)

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