Murtaza Zaidi

Verso Day 15 — real-time Canvas collaboration shipped, Folio sync issues resolved

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Lol! My drawaring is not good!

Day 15 of building Verso (projectoye.com)
A workspace OS replacing your fragmented tool stack with one AI-native environment.

Hectic day. Good hectic.

Real-time Canvas — Done

The design canvas in Verso (think Canva, built-in) now supports live collaboration.
Multiple users → same canvas → same time.

  • Drag

  • Resize

  • Create

Everything stays in sync.

Folio Sync Issues — Fixed

Folio (Verso’s notebook tool — think OneNote, but smarter) had some real-time edge cases.
Those are now fully resolved.

The Real Challenge

Real-time on a canvas is not the same as text.

  • Text → linear

  • Canvas → freeform

On a canvas:

  • Elements have arbitrary positions

  • Different sizes

  • Z-order layers

  • Multiple properties per element

👉 Every single property must sync — not just content.

Question

For those who have built collaborative canvas tools:

How did you handle sync for freeform element positioning without jitter on slower connections?

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Alex Rotar
Shipping real-time canvas collaboration by Day 15 is insanely impressive. Handling the edge cases for live sync (especially with elements like dragging and resizing simultaneously) usually takes teams weeks of fighting with WebSockets or CRDTs. Love the raw 'building in public' updates. Keep going!
Murtaza Zaidi

@arotar Thanks!