Noddle is open-core: 🆓 Self-hosted — the core editor is MIT-licensed. Run it yourself, bring your own AI key (Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/OpenRouter). Try it at draw.noddle.dev or grab it on GitHub. ☁️ Cloud — board.noddle.dev adds accounts, team workspaces, sharing & real-time collab, version history, and built-in AI credits. Free tier: 10 boards, no card required.
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Hey Product Hunt! 👋
I'm Khanh, and I built Noddle Board solo over the past few months.
It started with a frustration: every AI diagram tool I tried gave me either a static image or SVG soup — the moment you want to move one box, you're stuck. And whiteboard tools are great for sketching, but turning a whiteboard photo into a clean diagram is still manual work.
Noddle is open-core: the editor itself is MIT-licensed — self-host it free with your own AI key (draw.noddle.dev, repo linked above). The cloud version adds accounts, teams, sharing, version history and built-in credits, and it's what keeps the project sustainable.
So Noddle's core promise is simple: whatever goes in — a hand-drawn sketch, a photo of a whiteboard, plain text, or Mermaid — what comes out is a real, editable board. Proper shapes, connectors hat reroute when you drag things, containers, the works.
A few things I'm proud of:
✦ Snap a photo of a whiteboard → get an editable diagram, not an image
✦ Claude as a live co-editor: chat "add a retry queue between these two services" and watch it edit the board with you
✦ Real-time collaboration with share links — no signup needed to view
✦ Import from draw.io, export SVG / PNG / GIF / Mermaid
✦ Bring your own API key (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, OpenRouter) if you prefer — or use the built-in credits
What's the messiest whiteboard photo you've got? Try it and tell me where it breaks. I'll be here all day answering everything 🙌