This Week in Startups

Drawing the Future with AI featuring tldraw’s Steve Ruiz | E1863

Dec 13, 2023

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Steve Ruiz, founder of tldraw, joins Jason to discuss the origins of tldraw and how it went viral just after a funding round. They dive into the debate of creating consciousness with AI, demonstrate tldraw's versatility by creating a stopwatch from simple sketches, and explore topics like wireframing, HTML prototypes, and cloud computing solutions for startups.

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TL Draw aims to become a versatile tool for developers, empowering them to create a wide range of applications and technical outputs.

By leveraging the power of multimodal prompting, TL Draw enables users to combine drawings, screenshots, and text to generate working applications or technical outputs.

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TL Draw: A Hackable Whiteboard Engine for Creativity

TL Draw is a company that started as an open-source project for building a hackable whiteboard-like engine. It offers an infinite canvas where users can zoom in and out and move around similar to platforms like Figma or Miro. The popularity of this idea led to the creation of TL Draw as a company, which has spent the last two years developing an SDK for building whiteboards and whiteboard-like products. TL Draw allows for various use cases, such as working with data, adding annotations, or creating new prompts based on previous inputs. The unique feature of TL Draw is its ability to generate working websites based on drawings, text, or screenshots, using language models like OpenAI's GPT-4. TL Draw aims to become a versatile tool for developers, empowering them to create a wide range of applications and technical outputs.

Examples of Converting Wireframes into Working Prototypes

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Introduction

2min

TL Draw: From Open Source Project to Company

6min

Discussion on Databases, TL Draw, and Consideration of Running Ads

2min

Using AI to Turn Drawings into Code

2min

Wireframing, HTML Prototypes, and Miro's Pitch Deck Template for Founders

2min

Designing and Annotating a Website

7min

Cloud Computing Solutions for Startups and Challenges with Creative Tools

2min

The Nature of Human Creativity and Creating a Stopwatch App

6min

Exploring the Business Model and Sponsorships

3min

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Teal Draw Business Model and AI Models

5min

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Today’s show:

Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, joins Jason to discuss how Make Real went viral just one week after a recent funding round (5:35), diving into the debate of creating consciousness with AI (20:41), highlighting tldraw's versatility with multiple demonstrations including creating a stopwatch from simple sketches (24:21), and much more!

Timestamps:

(0:00) Steve Ruiz, Founder of tldraw, joins Jason.

(2:26) The story behind tldraw and exploring its origins.

(5:35) Discussing tldraw's business and how Make Real went viral just one week after a recent venture round.

(6:46) Understanding “Open Core”

(7:59) Demos: tldraw and Make Real, including the creation of a color picker.

(12:01) Miro - Sign up for a free account at https://www.miro.com/startups

(14:42) Further exploring tldraw demos using Iterations

(16:18) How multimodal AI responds to different instructions.

(20:41) Are we creating consciousness in AI or merely simulating it?

(21:25) Equinix - Join the Equinix Startup Program for up to $100K in credits and much more at https://www.deploy.equinix.com/startups

(24:21) More demos! Creating a stopwatch application with varied approaches.