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#385of 3,515 in 2024
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How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
7 positive, 7 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 22 comments about the project. Thread score -0.01.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean UI and easy diagram creation
From 3 comments
Love this. Would love to be able to: a) Pause b) Step through the individual steps (I see they're titled) c) Go back / Forward to grokk better
tristanMatthias on HNI really liked the UI and the ease with which diagrams can be created.Will it be possible to import diagrams from other tools like draw.io here.
piyushtechsavy on HNVery cool! Love how the links rearrange themselves when you move a node.
alabhyajindal on HN
Animated links are useful for understanding flows
From 1 comment
Such a wrong take. An animated line instantly brings you focus, and remove any guess work, and unease, when analysing a complex system. And in this example , allow you to…
dekervin on HN
Objections
Animations are a distraction and make labels hard to read
From 1 comment
Congrats on the launch. Looks very clean. I think the core concept is flawed, though. "Animated diagrams" are great for generating engagement on social media, but in practice an…
Veuxdo on HN
GUI editing does not scale compared to text-based diagrams
From 1 comment
I know you said you prefer the GUI over text-based, but that was the exact thing I wanted to ask for after trying your demo. GUI just doesn’t scale like text does. How will you…
mckn1ght on HN
Site had a security issue injecting JavaScript via URL
From 2 comments
https://gg-charts.com/#=&file=eJyVksFSgzAQhu88xQ4X9FBa2jodkTKenB7USx3vgYQhEhJM0pbo+O4GhJbW1hlzSXYz+fb/d6MqktKMpkhTwV+JVHYLIfAn/sTRVDMSgpcTxoTnKKM0KVXoAIyA4hDekNkqGwFUQtEGELYRQG0Rk…
Mandatum on HNWhen going to https://gg-charts.com all I got is a popup of 1 and displayed Hacked by NSF instead.
phantomathkg on HN
Performance problems from collision resolution loop
From 2 comments
My laptop screamed after I played around in the redux demo. Must be something like infinite loop.
chj on HNMy algorithm to detect / resolve collisions has a bug in it. In some cases, a system will be displaced on the right, then on the left, then on the right... until it reaches a…
j0d1 on HN
Requests
Export animation to GIF or APNG
From 2 comments
Thanks for this! I love how minimal and intuitive it is. Feature request - ability to export to Animated PNG!
ilt on HNWow, I'm glad that I visited HN when your tool was at the top. I'm going to use it to illustrate docs on our internal DAG-like system. By the way, is there a simple way to export…
stopthe on HN
Import diagrams from draw.io
From 1 comment
I really liked the UI and the ease with which diagrams can be created.Will it be possible to import diagrams from other tools like draw.io here.
piyushtechsavy on HN
Support labels on links
From 1 comment
Someone submitted an issue on Github to add labels on links (i.e. lines) and I think it's a great idea for a v1. In my mind, the animations won't get in the way of reading the…
j0d1 on HN
Integrate with existing tracing systems
From 1 comment
Wishlist: Plug into existing tracing systems. Meaning if I use Datadog, I could use this to map my environment if I have tracing enabled.
throwaway7ahgb on HN
Questions
Whether the tool can generate diagrams from code or text
From 2 comments
I know you said you prefer the GUI over text-based, but that was the exact thing I wanted to ask for after trying your demo. GUI just doesn’t scale like text does. How will you…
mckn1ght on HNIs there a text format for this? I’d be interested in seeing if we can generate these from trace data the way that we do for sequence diagrams and flow charts.…
kgilpin on HN
Whether the app can step through flows
From 1 comment
Love this. Would love to be able to: a) Pause b) Step through the individual steps (I see they're titled) c) Go back / Forward to grokk better
tristanMatthias on HN
Alternatives named
Mermaid
From 2 comments
This is pretty cool. I’ll definitely be following the development of this. I was just starting to look at how something similar could be done using mermaid.js or plantuml.
battered8310 on HNThis is really great. However, I’d prefer this as a layer on top of an existing graphing library / syntax.
bberenberg on HN
draw.io
From 2 comments
In case any of you use draw.io note that you can animate lines with a right click. Last time I did this for a presentation I did have to record to gif but it worked really well.
flarg on HNI really liked the UI and the ease with which diagrams can be created.Will it be possible to import diagrams from other tools like draw.io here.
piyushtechsavy on HN
Drakon
From 1 comment
This is pretty nice! Really like the choices for the Keyboard shortcuts and how they are presented. My favorite tool for creating diagrams so far is still Drakon (try in browser:…
myrmidon on HN
PlantUML
From 1 comment
Org files with embedded PlantUML blocks get close to what you want.
hcarvalhoalves on HN