006 / WBOARD · 1st place · DSC WoW 2020 · Code Off Duty hackathon
wboard
A realtime collaborative whiteboard, built solo in a week. Won DSC WoW 2020.
- year
- 2020
- role
- sole engineer · team Void (Ashhar Ali led, Purujeet Singh tested)
- stack
- sponsors
- Airmeet · Scaler Edge · Pratilipi
hardest problem
Streaming mousemove killed performance and N×N canvases didn't scale. One live canvas (active drawer) synced to DB on mouseup per stroke; every other participant sees a re-rendered snapshot at stroke boundaries. Felt live; cost almost nothing.