Ask HN: Anyone use a code to mindmap/flowchart tool?

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Mermaid

I originally wrote https://chatcraft.org to help me generate https://mermaid.js.org/ charts quickly. As an accident this resulted in ability to do funny charts like https://twitter.com/tarasglek/status/1656932246018748418 Just last week I discovered <a href="https://github.com/skanaar/nomnoml">https://github.com/skanaar/nomnoml</a> which llms also seem to know. It seems like a better mermaid for UML type stuff, intend to integrate it into chatcraft too.

#Flow Charts And Diagrams #Diagrams #UML 45 social mentions

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IcePanel

I use UML quite a bit but it's never really what I'm after, somnething more modern and fluid and gui driven that more people can use. Icepanel [1] looks really cool but I haven't tested it and I'm not sure it really fits my use case. It seems like it's mostly for api driven rpc/grpc/rest services when I kind of want to use it to visualize backend/infra/terraform sort of things. Might be interesting to you. [1] - <a href="https://icepanel.io/">https://icepanel.io/</a>.

#Design Tools #Developer Tools #Software Architecture 36 social mentions

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Excalidraw

I was happy to find out recently that there is a way to make Mermaid diagrams WYSIWYG / drag and drop editable that the open source https://excalidraw.com has and did I mention it's open source!? With a LLM, you can go full loop back to Mermaid again after a few rounds of manual editing. "What a time to be alive!".

#Digital Whiteboard #Sketching #Drawing 241 social mentions

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flowchart.fun

Https://flowchart.fun recently helped a lot with a project.

#Open Source #Software Engineering #Developer Tools 39 social mentions