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Collaborative Whiteboard with AI Clustering

Brainstorm on a shared canvas and let AI group sticky notes into themes.

Advanced26h2–4 people17/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Collaborative Whiteboard with AI Clustering for teams running brainstorms in ~26h with 2–4 people. Stack: tldraw + Yjs + Embeddings + LLM.

Why it wins: Multiplayer plus AI with a magical animation.

Build flow

01 · Problem
After brainstorms someone spends an hour grouping 200 sticky notes.
02 · Solution
Build a multiplayer canvas with tldraw and Yjs, embed each sticky note and cluster them into labelled groups that animate into place.
03 · Build
  1. 1Set up tldraw with Yjs sync
  2. 2Embed notes
  3. 3Cluster and label
  4. 4Animate positions
04 · Demo
Have the audience add notes from phones and click 'cluster'.

MVP checklist

  • Shared canvas
  • Sticky notes
  • AI clustering
  • Theme labels

Tech stack

TechRole
tldrawInfinite canvas
YjsCRDT realtime sync
EmbeddingsSemantic similarity
LLMLanguage model

Reference repos

Open-source projects you can build on. Links checked 2026-10-31.

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