Draftboard is a shared space for teams to post and get feedback on designs, ideas, and work in progress. I built it as an open-source tool you can deploy for your team in minutes.
At its core, Draftboard supports a healthy design culture. In distributed teams, meaningful work too often disappears into Slack threads or gets buried in Figma. That makes it harder to learn from each other, get inspired, and keep ideas flowing. Draftboard brings that work back into the open with a lightweight social feed that’s easy to deploy and flexible enough to fit into existing workflows.
It launches with the following features:
- Feed — Reverse-chronological feed with list and grid views
- Rich editor — Lexical-based editor with Markdown shortcuts, @mentions, slash commands, drag-and-drop, and autosave
- Attachments — Images, videos, files, Figma and Loom embeds with a carousel viewer
- Projects — Organize posts with cover images, descriptions, and teams
- Comments — Threaded replies (two levels) with per-attachment comments
- Reactions — Like/wow/cool reactions plus custom emoji support
- Notifications — Alerts for comments, replies, mentions, and reactions
- Search — Full-text search across posts, projects, and people
- Webhooks — Optional Slack and Discord integrations for new posts
- Admin — User management, invite links, and site settings
- Dark mode — Full light/dark theme support
- Mobile PWA — Mobile-first Progressive Web App for iOS and Android
I built Draftboard after using, investing in, and building similar tools at companies I’ve worked at. The shared feed, profiles, and lightweight project tags make it easy to share and rediscover design work across the company. I’ve seen this pattern scale well for teams up to ~300–400 people.
Get started
To run it, you’ll need hosting, a PostgreSQL database, and S3-compatible storage. There’s a step-by-step setup guide to get you running quickly. Draftboard supports Google and Okta authentication, and it can also run with email/password plus invite links, handy for a smaller team or a group of friends.
Draftboard is available on GitHub, and I’m grateful for contributions.