# devdotfast/whiteboard

> 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.

- Magnitude: 4.7 out of 10 — Breakout
- Stars: 283 total · +157 stars today, ≈ 180 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2026-08-18 · Last push: 2026-09-24
- GitHub: https://github.com/devdotfast/whiteboard · Homepage: https://whiteboard.dev.fast/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/devdotfast/whiteboard

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 157 stars so far today, about 180 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 2 per day, so that's 83× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The repository is 37 days old and already has 283 stars.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design” — 114 points, 3 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 17
- Issues and pull requests: 531
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 26 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 36
- Latest release: v0.1.2 (2026-09-24)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-08-26 … 2026-09-24: 6, 63, 28, 3, 2, 3, 2, 5, 1, 5, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 157

## Hacker News

- Show HN: Whiteboard (YC W26) – An open-source IDE for thoughtful software design — 114 points, 36 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49833867

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-24 20:27 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.