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Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified

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233 points gmays | 6 comments | 24 Jun 25 01:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.956s | source | bottom
1. 9283409232 ◴[24 Jun 25 02:54 UTC] No.44362490[source]▶
On the roadmap they posted, they have "self-host Excalidraw" as backlogged. Is there a self-hosted alternative to Excalidraw? I would love to use something like this internally with my team but we self-host all of our services.
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2. keithnz ◴[24 Jun 25 02:57 UTC] No.44362511[source]▶
the code is here... MIT license https://github.com/excalidraw/excalidraw
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3. 9283409232 ◴[24 Jun 25 03:01 UTC] No.44362527[source]▶
Oh cool. Didn't know excalidraw was open source.
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4. nodja ◴[24 Jun 25 04:00 UTC] No.44362743[source]▶
I've found that the best experience of self hosting excalidraw is actually using it inside nextcloud, it's called whiteboard over there but it's actually excalidraw. Setup is bit finicky but workable if you understand how reverse proxies work.

Nextcloud allows you to have an actual file based workflow and collaboration works out of the box, so if you give someone the url they can see what you're doing and let them do edits as well.

5. er4hn ◴[24 Jun 25 04:09 UTC] No.44362790{3}[source]▶
It is, but the collaboration portion is a CYOA part you need to implement yourself. There are OSS versions of that as well but they are not officially supported.
6. lis ◴[24 Jun 25 08:02 UTC] No.44363861[source]▶
We've forked excalidraw a while ago to allow running excalidraw without firebase as a backend. This can already be self-hosted. It needs some love, but it's a good starting point:

  * https://github.com/b310-digital/excalidraw
  * https://github.com/b310-digital/excalidraw-room/
  * https://gitlab.com/kiliandeca/excalidraw-fork
  * https://gitlab.com/kiliandeca/excalidraw-storage-backend