The best online whiteboard for the startups industry

Product Ideation and Rapid Brainstorming

Early-stage startups live and die by the speed of their ideas. Jotboard gives founding teams a shared canvas where product concepts, user flows and feature priorities can take shape in minutes. Drop sticky notes for every idea, group them with shapes and colours, and sketch rough wireframes with the pen tool. The slide-based interface keeps each brainstorming session or feature area on its own page, so the board stays focused rather than becoming an endless scroll of disconnected thoughts. Real-time collaboration means remote co-founders and distributed teams can ideate together as naturally as if they were standing at the same physical whiteboard. When a session is over, export the board to PDF to share with advisors or drop into a Notion doc for reference.

Sprint Planning and Standups

Startups that ship fast need lightweight planning tools, not heavyweight project management suites. Jotboard works well as a visual sprint board: create a slide for each sprint, add sticky notes for tasks, and move them between columns drawn with shapes or the pen tool. During daily standups, the team can open the board and update progress in real-time, with everyone seeing changes instantly. Because Jotboard supports unlimited boards on the free plan, you can keep a separate board for each product area, each squad or each experiment without worrying about hitting a paywall. Google sign-in means new hires can join their first board in seconds on day one.

Investor Pitches and Storytelling

When it is time to raise funding, the slide-based format becomes a natural fit for building pitch narratives. Lay out your market opportunity, product vision and traction metrics across a sequence of slides using text boxes, images and shapes. Jotboard is not a replacement for a polished pitch deck, but it is an excellent tool for drafting the story collaboratively before moving to final design. Teams can rearrange slides, annotate with sticky notes and iterate on messaging together in real-time. The free tier supports up to five collaborators, which covers most early-stage teams, and the four-dollar-a-month plan removes that cap as the company grows.

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