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Life & fun · August 18, 2011

a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

Sketchub is a place to share your projects and to find projects made by other people. Apps, 3D models, hardware builds and more. Everything on Sketchub is open.

a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface launched on August 18, 2011 with 215 votes, #4 of 248 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 15 years on.

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Sketchub is a free platform for sharing and discovering open-source projects across multiple categories including apps, 3D models, and hardware builds. Users can browse community-organized hubs dedicated to specific interests like 3D printing or Arduino, where team moderators review and categorize submissions. The platform features a multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface for collaboration. All projects can be downloaded, used, and modified by the community.

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Sketchub is a place to share your projects and to find projects made by other people. Apps, 3D models, hardware builds and more. Everything on Sketchub is open: you can download it, use it and change it. A hub is a space on Sketchub for one community. A hub for 3D printing, a hub for Sketchware apps, a hub for Arduino builds. Each hub has its own projects, its own team and its own rules. You create a hub for your community. Sketchub checks it, and then it can accept projects. The hub's team decides what an upload needs, sorts projects into categories, and checks every project before it goes live. Every hub is public. One Sketchub account works in all hubs, so you can join any hub, browse it…from sketchub.com

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