devdotfast/whiteboard

open-source IDE for thoughtful software design

Developer toolsTypeScript

4.5 Breakout Magnitude out of 10 — how fast interest is growing, not a quality score. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 24, 2026, 19:41 UTC.

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About the project

An open-source desktop IDE for software design where humans and coding agents share a canvas: the agent draws diagrams you can jump from straight into code.

Useful for

Ask the agent to diff the current branch against main and open it on the canvas
Review telemetry changes from a PR and turn them into diagrams
View a semantic diff with tests and docs collapsed

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

128 stars so far today, about 151 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 2 per day, so that's 70× as much.
Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
The repository is 37 days old and already has 255 stars.
Hacker News: “Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design” — 92 points, 2 h ago.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 255
Today: 128 · ≈ 151 by evening
Forks: 15
Issues and pull requests: 529
Watchers: 0
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v0.1.1 · September 24, 2026
Created: August 18, 2026
Last push: September 24, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Hacker News discussions

Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design92 points, September 24, 2026

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September 24, 2026Spotted on Hacker News

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