Show HN: Visual way to understand things in parallel
Really excited to be showing what I think is a better way to understand complex topics with AI.
You start a chat with your question, and whenever you want to clarify something or understand some jargon, you can branch out a new chat from that thread.
The cool unlock is being able to see all related chat threads in the same context without tab switching, for e.g. I can first dive into understanding world models, then spin a new chat thread on who the key players are in there, and another asking what's the frontier with this stuff.
The responses are also not just a wall of text. They're: - Filled with interactive diagrams and visuals - Super fast
And for those curious, this is how we built it: - React Flow (@xyflow/react) for the canvas - React Components for interactive diagrams - GPT Image 2 for image generations - Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite for super fast response - Parallelization whenever possible to keep things fast
You can also highlight and add notes :)
Try it out and let me know what you think!
- i wonder if it would be more useful to be able to branch out from some previous message in a thread, vs being forced to branch out from the end of a thread. feels more natural to go back and branch out into some tangent/deep-dive.
- maybe there could be some autogen'd suggested branch-out topics/prompts?
- does the top-level chat composer input have context of other nodes on the canvas?
- is there a way to search across nodes?
- how do i delete a node?
- are there plans to try to unify this canvas experience with the primary duolingo-style course flow? if so, how?
https://html-in-canvas.dev