Noddle is built by three people — Khanh, Khoi, and Tam. Not "a lean, agile team" in the press-release sense. Three actual humans, one shared design system, one roadmap file in a git repo, and one rule that keeps the whole thing from collapsing. You're reading this on Noddle Deck's blog, so you've already met one member of the family. This post is the map of the rest: what exists, what's live today, and what's honestly still on the workbench.
Key takeaways
- Noddle is one family under one brand: a hub at noddle.dev, and products named Noddle <Function> living at <product>.noddle.dev.
- Four tools: Noddle Board (commercial diagram editor with a ✦ AI co-editor), noddle draw (open-source MIT, anonymous), Noddle Deck (prompt management — this product), and Noddle Docs (next).
- The one rule: ship one product at a time. Three people cannot run four launches, so we don't try.
- Honest status as of July 2026: draw and Deck are live, Board is closing out its GA checklist, Docs hasn't started.
The family
Everything hangs off one hub, noddle.dev, and every product follows the same naming pattern: Noddle plus what it does, at its own subdomain. Here's the full roster.
- Noddle Board — board.noddle.dev. A diagram and whiteboard editor with a ✦ AI co-editor that draws and edits on the canvas with you. This is the flagship and the commercial product — the one that's supposed to pay for the rest.
- noddle draw — draw.noddle.dev. The open-source, MIT-licensed anonymous edition of the canvas. No account, no tracking dance — open a tab and draw. The code lives at github.com/noddle-dev/noddle-draw.
- Noddle Deck — deck.noddle.dev, the site you're on. Prompt management: prompts, skills, and curated packs you can install into your agent setup in one command.
- Noddle Docs — coming next. A docs and wiki workspace, and the reason the family exists at all: the plan is to embed live Board diagrams straight into Docs pages. It hasn't started yet, and we're not pretending otherwise.
The one rule: ship one product at a time
Early on we wrote a principle into the roadmap that has survived every temptation since: release sequentially, not in parallel. A crew of three can build several things at once, badly — or one thing at a time, well. Every launch costs more than the code: docs, billing, support, the long tail of bug reports from real users. Multiply that by four simultaneous products and you get four half-shipped ones.
So the order is fixed: Board goes GA first, Docs comes right after, and everything else waits its turn. In practice that means saying no a lot. Docs is currently a "coming soon" card on the hub and nothing more, even though it's the product we're most excited about. That's not a teaser strategy — it's just the queue.
Where things actually stand
Build-in-public posts get boring the moment they turn into press releases, so here's the unvarnished status board as of mid-July 2026:
- Noddle Board — getting ready for GA. The app works and we use it daily, but the launch checklist is real and still open: a full security review before going public, custom domain and TLS chores, and verifying billing end-to-end on production. It ships when those are done, not before.
- noddle draw — live. Open the site, draw, done. It stays free and MIT forever; it's our thank-you to the open canvas tools we learned from.
- Noddle Deck — live. Packs install today, and this blog runs on it. Deck started life under a different name (HeroPrompt) and joined the family in July after we decided one brand beats three.
- Noddle Docs — not started. Zero lines of code. It's next in the queue, right after Board GA.
Why one family instead of four brands
Follow along
If you want to kick the tires today: browse the pack catalog here on Deck, or open draw.noddle.dev and sketch something — no account needed. When Board reaches GA, it'll be announced here and on noddle.dev. We'll keep writing these as we go: one post per release, with the misses included. That's the deal with building in public — you get the status board, not the highlight reel.