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  "markdown": "Creator of Excalidraw.\n\nChristopher Chedeau started building Excalidraw on 1 January 2020 as a tool for diagrams that look hand-drawn, and within two weeks it had 12,000 unique active users. He had earlier open-sourced React Native.\n\n- X: https://x.com/vjeux\n- GitHub: https://github.com/vjeux\n\n## What Christopher builds\n\n- [Excalidraw](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/excalidraw.md), graded C, 54.6/100, in Diagramming. Excalidraw is a hand-drawn style whiteboard and diagram editor from Excalidraw s.r.o. in Brno. Agents reach it through the Excalidraw+ REST API and MCP server (public beta), a free keyless MCP App, and the open-source editor on npm (MIT). Creator of Excalidraw, founder, researched 2026-10-28.\n\n## Works with\n\n- [David Luzar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-luzar/), Co-founder, Excalidraw\n\n## Questions\n\n### Who is Christopher Chedeau?\n\nChristopher Chedeau started building Excalidraw on 1 January 2020 as a tool for diagrams that look hand-drawn, and within two weeks it had 12,000 unique active users. He had earlier open-sourced React Native.\n\n### What does Excalidraw s.r.o. make?\n\nAnchor Terminal lists Excalidraw from Excalidraw s.r.o.. Excalidraw is a hand-drawn style whiteboard and diagram editor from Excalidraw s.r.o. in Brno. Agents reach it through the Excalidraw+ REST API and MCP server (public beta), a free keyless MCP App, and the open-source editor on npm (MIT).\n\n### How are Christopher's tools graded?\n\nExcalidraw is graded C, 54.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.\n\n## Sources\n\n- https://plus.excalidraw.com/\n- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/reflections-on-excalidraw\n- https://github.com/vjeux\n- https://github.com/dwelle\n- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/introducing-excalidraw-plus\n- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/year-two\n- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/year-three\n\nThese are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched. They don't work for Anchor Terminal (our own team is on the about page, /about/#author). We show public roles, public profiles and what the listing pages show, nothing private. To correct something, send an about or a photo, or have a page removed, write to privacy@anchorterminal.com.\n",
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