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Products that do what Chalk: a Mac app for technical diagrams with a built-in MCP for Claude does

Hey HN. Here's a Mac app I'm working on for making diagrams. It comes with an MCP server so Claude can make and edit diagrams directly. Still in progress, but I'd love some feedback.

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    Hey all! I'm happy to announce we've finally released our 2nd macOS app, Draw Over It, a tiny desktop app that enables drawing, highlighting, or annotating directly on top of anything on your Mac. I've always wanted something like this for instant and unobtrusive sketching and annotation for pair programming and demos. I always found the standard web-based diagram and drawing tools a bit too cumbersome. So we built a simple overlay that could appear over any window or app with one shortcut. It doesn't collect any user data and doesn't require any system permissions - it's sandboxed. It all…

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