# tldraw/make-real-starter

Make it real

Repository: https://github.com/tldraw/make-real-starter
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/make-real-starter
Language: TypeScript
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Last push: 2026-05-05T21:59:11+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 63/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 80, release rhythm 35, longevity 72
- inputs: {"age_days": 1020, "days_push": 120, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1537, forks 252 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:00.098504+00:00)

## What it is
A starter template for building 'Make Real' style apps that turn hand-drawn UI mockups on a tldraw infinite canvas into working HTML using GPT-4 vision. It is a Next.js application built on the tldraw SDK with a customizable prompt pipeline.

## Use cases
- turn whiteboard sketches into working HTML UI
- build a draw-to-code app like makereal.tldraw.com
- prototype UI by drawing mockups and generating code
- customize a GPT-4 vision prompt to generate code from images
- create interactive canvas apps with the tldraw SDK

## When to choose
- you want to build a sketch-to-code or mockup-to-UI tool on an infinite canvas
- you want a ready-made Next.js + tldraw + OpenAI vision starter to customize

## When to avoid
- you need a production-ready app rather than a prototyping template
- you don't want to expose an OpenAI API key in a client-side Next.js app
- you need a license more permissive than AGPL-3.0

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: llm-inference, frontend-framework, ui-components, prompt-engineering
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, web-development, frontend, developer-tools
- platform: browser
- tags: tldraw, gpt-4-vision, sketch-to-code, whiteboard, nextjs, starter-template, openai, web-server, nodejs, typescript

## Member repositories
- tldraw/make-real-starter (main) score 63

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.098504+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:31:02.328815+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tldraw/make-real-starter (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:00.098504+00:00, sha 33d5099e3da7)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.