# Christopher Chedeau (slim)

> Christopher Chedeau is creator of Excalidraw. Excalidraw on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Creator of Excalidraw.

Christopher 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.

- X: https://x.com/vjeux
- GitHub: https://github.com/vjeux

## What Christopher builds

- [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.

## Works with

- [David Luzar](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/david-luzar/), Co-founder, Excalidraw

## Questions

### Who is Christopher Chedeau?

Christopher 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.

### What does Excalidraw s.r.o. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Excalidraw from Excalidraw s.r.o..

### How are Christopher's tools graded?

Excalidraw is graded C, 54.6 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://plus.excalidraw.com/
- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/reflections-on-excalidraw
- https://github.com/vjeux
- https://github.com/dwelle
- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/introducing-excalidraw-plus
- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/year-two
- https://plus.excalidraw.com/blog/year-three

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