koahmad

I wish I had this at my previous job. Our k8s roles were basically everything or unusable. Managing anything fine grained was such a pain that it wasn't worth it.

Just went through the quickstart and that's some top-notch developer experience, great job.

OneModel | Sunnyvale, CA or Remote | Onsite or Remote OK | Founding Software Engineer | https://www.onemodel.app

OneModel aims to make diagramming frictionless, allowing users to get their ideas on the canvas quickly while creating beautiful diagrams. Our tool is a unique approach to diagramming. We use diagram algorithms to handle as much as possible on behalf of the user. Our tool is a breath of fresh air to diagrammers and we’re excited to double down on our approach to diagramming.

We're looking for a founding engineer to join. You can find the details here: https://onemodel.notion.site/onemodel/Founding-Engineer-OneM...

Reach out to [email protected] with your resume (or LinkedIn) to apply or if you have any questions.

Wow thank you! You can expect coloring the icons in the next couple days. Custom icons will probably be in a month or two.

Thank you! That's a great idea and it's what I'm working towards. I'd like the ability to connect your diagrams to various event sources or even metadata, to help keep them alive. At the moment though, I'm trying to put together the building blocks to get there.

Will look into the bug, sorry about that. Everything is cloud based. In other comments I got suggestions for a way to create diagrams without an account. I'm looking into that and that would probably include a local-file component. Thanks for your feedback.

Glad you liked it! Hoping to add a request icon form in the app soon and custom icons down the line. In the mean time, feel free to email support[at]onemodel.app with the list and I will add them asap.

The tool is free for individuals and will remain free after the beta. Pricing would be for team usage (currently early access) and is still tbd. Early access teams will receive a discount.

I think a VSCode extension would be pretty cool. I'll have to checkout out cd designer, seems interesting. Thanks for the feedback and glad you liked the tool!

Thank you!

Thanks, glad you liked it. Adding sticky notes on diagrams is on the roadmap, hopefully in the next month or so.

Great point, thanks. We'll explore creating a playground where the diagrams are stored locally to eliminate the account setup barrier.

Hi HN! I’m building a diagramming tool optimized for software engineering use cases.

In previous jobs, I’ve had to draw many diagrams, whether to accompany design specifications or to explain something to peers. I’ve always felt drawing diagrams was too time consuming even though it was incredibly beneficial to my peers. That led me to creating a diagramming tool that allows software engineers to create diagrams quickly while remaining neat and presentable.

A few notable features:

- When drawing arrows, the tool automatically routes the arrows for you (using A* pathfinding and a nudging algorithm [1]).

- The tool has a wide variety of icons to choose from and I’m adding more. The goal here is to add all the icons a software engineer might need.

- Everything is placed on a grid with placement rules so the user doesn't have to worry about alignment.

- Embedding live (auto-updating) diagrams in Notion or using IFrames. GitHub support coming soon.

I understand the tool doesn’t support all use cases, I was primarily focused on architecture diagrams. I hope to support more types of diagrams (sequence, db schemas, flow charts, etc) in the future. Hopefully this is a good starting point to gauge feedback on the direction I’m heading towards.

OneModel is in beta and is completely free to use. It will remain free for individuals after the beta. I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! I’ll be around to answer any questions.

If you’d like to reach out to me, feel free to email me at khaled[at]onemodel.app

[1] If you’re interested in these types of algorithms, this paper is great: https://users.monash.edu/~mwybrow/papers/wybrow-gd-2009.pdf