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> Just. Fucking. Let. People. Instantly. Use. Your. Full. Product.

I love that - and that's how I aim to build things now.

Excalidraw has few calls to external domains as well - just Google Analytics and Sentry.io. That's still two that can be reduced, but it's much better than most modern clustertrucks.

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Yeah, we’ve been trying to keep it without calling to any external service. Both of them are optional, excalidraw will work offline and/or with an adblocker that blocks those domains.

That said, those two have been really important for the success of the project. Google Analytics is helpful to get a sense of how important it is to people and motivation for the team. The second one helped us fix a lot of edge cases that couldn’t immediately be found via normal testing.

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