coderamp-labs/pad.ws

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4202 stars · 240 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pad.ws is a browser-based whiteboard app that doubles as a development environment, combining an Excalidraw canvas with terminals and VS Code. It uses Coder to provision cloud dev environments and can be self-hosted via Docker Compose.

Use cases

• draw architecture diagrams and code in the same browser workspace
• access a cloud dev environment from any device
• sketch ideas on a whiteboard then jump straight into a terminal or VS Code
• self-host a browser-based IDE for a team
• connect a remote VM to desktop editors like VS Code or Cursor

When to choose

• you want visual ideation and coding in one browser-based tool
• you need a self-hosted cloud development environment with a whiteboard interface
• you want device-independent access to your dev environment

When to avoid

• you need a production-ready, hardened deployment out of the box
• you prefer a traditional local IDE without a canvas interface
• you cannot run Docker on a Linux host

Facets

application · maturity experimental

gui developer-tools self-hosted web-framework developer-tools web-development self-hosted cloud-computing self-hosted browser whiteboard-ide excalidraw cloud-development-environment vscode browser-ide coder web-server docker linux

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