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…Yeah. I mean, when you, when you get something as viral as, as tldraw got, like I think I've talked to everyone, certainly every, every investor and yes, we, we probably could on for something like together or that draw fast thing, make a tiny little SaaS app, you know, give me $10 a month, play with this thing and you know, could make it, make it good. We could go in that direction. There's not much of a moat around any of this stuff. And we're seeing that just in, you know, I don't know, Gemini is going to come out in a couple of days, weeks or whatever. And if it's better than people are just going to use that until the next better thing comes along. Like there's not a lot of like unique defensible about like, Hey, it's an, it's a drawing app plus an LCM like model because there's going to be a lot of those models and there's going to be a lot of drawing app. The thing that I think is really unique for tldraw, the thing that we have added that is not easily created is the canvas itself. Is that like web-based, hackable, extendable, super refined interactions and all that stuff like all the thousand table stakes features that drive people nuts when building something like this, like they're all there, they're all good. Day one, you could build a really great experience, whether it's AI driven or not, like using tldraw in a way that it's just not practical to do if you're building it yourself. And especially if you're not doing like graphic stuff, there's really not that much else out there oriented towards this type of thing. And I think in a world where these types of AI driven capabilities are just going to keep coming out faster and faster, you know, I don't know, next year is going to be wild. Like every month there's going to be some new, you know, capability or something. The thing that I would want to see both just me as a person and as me as having built a business that I've built is for tldraw to sort of become the place where some of this prompting, some of these ideas are explored. Even if we decided to, okay, we're just going to close everything up, we're going to build a product based on this, and maybe it's a great product, but it would only be one direction, one ray kind of into this infinite space of possibility. And that could be successful, good, but like, I mean, we've built the sort of the direct manipulation core, but there are so many, even like AI specific APIs that we could build around tldraw for having, you know, like a virtual collaborator or working with images in a more rich way. There's just so much that we could build in order to make this the best possible place to explore, not just one direction, but like, you know, many, many, many directions. And I think that narrative, that gets me much more excited. And I think we're also just like the team that we have and the tech that we have and the skills that we have, we're more of the team to build that rather than like to become like a SaaS product company. d I think we're also just like the team that we have and the tech that we have and the skills that we have, we're more of the team to build that rather than like to become like a SaaS product company. I'm not saying we'll never do like a, you know, pay us 10 bucks a month and we can, you can play with our magic toy, but primarily my goal is to make tldraw either the place to explore these different models, or you might think of it as like the battleground on which the winners will be kind of identified. Like right now we're using open AI for the make real thing. Maybe next week we'll be using Gemini and now it's, now it's a question of, okay, well now we have an environment in which to compare these two models with the same input and a very advanced form of input. But yeah, like, let's see which one does better. Now, nothing would make me happier than to be at sort of like the battlefield for multimodal prompting and multimodal AI experience. I should also shout out Baklava as the open source vision and multimodal model. So I fully understand you want to, you want to own the light cone of multimodal prompting. I think that that'll probably be the title of the episode. What's coming up for tldraw 2.0?…

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