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Products that do what Isoflow.io – Text-to-Diagram v1 does
One idea I've been wanting to experiment with for a while now is generating diagrams from text, and this weekend I managed to put together a demo and release it into Isoflow.io (which you can try for free at https://isoflow.io/app, just click the button with the AI icon to start generating). The idea is simple, but the results are surprisingly decent. Even though I originally built isoflow to visualise network architectures, there's nothing stopping you from going beyond networks and generating anything you're interested in (provided it can be visualised on a graph). For…
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Hello HN, It has been a while since I contributed to the web, so I decided to get back in shape and publish "something". This app is a POC of "what if diagrams were more dynamic". I'm a software engineer by trade, and with conventional tools, I often times struggle to explain flows of data in complex software systems. I got inspired by video games like The Incredible Machine and Factorio, as in some ways, software systems tend to become Rube Goldberg-esque machines ;) As a side quest, I also wanted to craft diagrams faster than text-based tools (ex: mermaid), as I am always forgetting their…
2024 · github.com
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I'm enthralled with using pen plotters to make generative art. Last August at SIGGRAPH, I built an interactive experience for others to see how code can be used to make visual art. The linked blog post is my trials and tribulations of linking a MIDI controller to one of these algorithms and sending its output to a plotter, so that people may witness the end-to-end experience.
2024 · lostpixels.io
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In the past I've used declarative diagram generation tools like Mermaid.js a lot for quickly drawing up things but for presentations or deliverables I find that I have to then move the generated diagrams over to a tool like Lucidchart which allows full control of the organization and customization. Therefore I am now working on this to combine the benefits of both into just one tool which can do both functions. The project is certainly in the early stages but if you find yourself making architecture diagrams I'd love to hear your thoughts on the idea or even a Github issue for a feature…
Oct 2025 · github.com
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GitDiagram is an open-source micro dev-tool that I made this past week Given any public GitHub repository it generates diagrams in Mermaid.js with Claude 3.5 Sonnet I extract information from the file tree and README for details and interactivity (you can click components to be taken to relevant files and directories) Also, you can replace "hub" with "diagram" in any repository URL to access its diagram I created this because I wanted to contribute to open-source projects but quickly realized their codebases are too massive for me to dig through manually, so this helps me get started I do…
2024 · gitdiagram.com
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Hey HN! I’m Gabriel, and I’m excited to share a project I’ve been working on for the last few years. Flowcode is a visual programming platform that tries to combine the best of both worlds (code and visual). Over the years I found myself repeatedly drawing architectures and logic. It was always my dream to just press “run” instead of having to write them in code afterwards. But none of the visual tools I found were flexible and transparent enough for building real products. I think that visual programming fits perfectly with modern backend dev tasks that revolve around connecting different…
2025 · app.getflowcode.io
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Hi HN folks, I'm a co-creator of the Dapr CNCF project and co-founder of Diagrid. Today we announced a free-to-use web app that takes any form of workflow diagram (UML, BPMN, scribble in your favorite drawing tool or even on paper) and generates code that runs in any IDE and that can be deployed to Kubernetes and other container based systems, based on Dapr's durable execution workflow engine. This essentially allows you to run durable workflows in minutes and leaves out the guesswork for how to structure, code and optimize a code-first workflow app. I'm happy for you to give this a try and…
2025 · workflows.diagrid.io
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2023 · fastflowchart.com
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Hi HN, We've built Flowee, which a CLI tool that generates architectural diagrams from AWS CDK/CF templates. We use it internally to send out the latest diagrams of each build to Slack, it's really interesting to see the applications evolve this way. We have more features planned for the future, would love to hear your comments/feedback. Thanks
2024 · westpoint-io.github.io
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I built Noodles to help me keep up with the codebases my AI tools generate. Open sourced last week, hit 400 stars in 8 days. The problem: AI assistants scaffold entire features quickly, but leave you maintaining code you didn't write. When bugs appear, you're reverse-engineering your own project. Noodles generates interactive D2 diagrams showing execution flow: - Scans the repository and identifies entry points (CLI commands, routes, UI components) - Maps how execution flows from entry to outcome - Renders interactive overlays with clickable nodes and tooltips - Updates incrementally when…
Feb 2026 · github.com
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