markmanx

Re: on Sunday February 02, 2025 @07:08PM (#42913262)

After 3 years of tinkering, experimenting, and late-night coding sessions, my isometric diagramming tool - Isoflow.io - has officially hit v3!

This project has been my creative outlet for simplifying how we explain complex systems. And now, it’s packed with new features to make designing and communicating ideas about business processes, information flows and IT networks more impactful.

AI Icon Generator: Use custom icons to represent components in your diagrams. Animation Builder: Bring your diagrams to life with step-by-step animated tours. Multi-Layered Views: Dive into details or zoom out for the big picture.

And yes, the editor is free to use, so give it a try and let me know what you think.

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever taken a career break or gap year to hack? on Monday December 23, 2024 @09:07PM (#42499142)

I took 6 months off to work on a side project and build a business out of it. It was one of the best things I've ever done. The job I got straight after was a direct result of my side project. Although the business did not thrive, I learnt a lot about what not to do as well. 6 months is a long time, and I felt too comfortable taking my time with things like trying to make the code perfect. If I were to do it all over again, I would have focussed more on other parts of the business like marketing and creating value than writing clean code.

Show HN: Isoflow.io – Text-to-Diagram v1

Posted by markmanx on Sunday August 25, 2024 @04:57PM
from the show-hn dept.

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...

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One week into open-sourcing my side project Isoflow

Posted by markmanx on Thursday March 16, 2023 @09:01PM
from the self-post dept.

So it's been around a week since making the initial commit to Isoflow's public repo. So how have things been going so far on the journey to open source?For one I feel more accountable for getting this project over the line. Isoflow has around 19 stars at the time of writing (at least I know there is some pull on the project, which is something I thrive on). I'm splitting time between...

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Isoflow is going open source

Posted by markmanx on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @03:20AM
from the self-post dept.

Isoflow was a free diagramming tool I launched back in 2020 for sketching network diagrams quickly. It grew quickly after reaching #1 on ProductHunt, and since then I've built it into a small SaaS with a modest customer base.Over the last year, I’ve hit a ceiling. As a developer I've found it hard to grow Isoflow past the 50 customers it currently has. As an alternative route, I've been...

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An Amazon order gets fulfilled

Posted by markmanx on Thursday December 01, 2022 @01:36AM
from the isoflow.io dept.

https://isoflow.io/app/project/clan47cc1cil40838a9hovm2z

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Re:Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and l... on Sunday March 28, 2021 @12:51AM (#26608040)

Thankyou, more icons released just a few mins ago.

Re:Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and l... on Saturday March 27, 2021 @07:44PM (#26606698)

I'd be really interested to hear which icons you're missing. I'm actually just about to push an update that will add a few more icons to the library (i.e. queues, caches, DNS etc). Expect those over the next few hours. Will try to include any suggestions in the next release. Thanks for checking it out!

Re:Better Architecture Diagrams for Agile Teams: actionable tips and l... on Saturday March 27, 2021 @06:10PM (#26606070)

Architecture diagrams should be easy to read and easy to maintain. This is exactly why I'm building https://isoflow.io

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Sunday August 16, 2020 @08:54AM (#24177352)

Thanks for the advice, I'm currently updating the data structure and will keep this in mind

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:01PM (#24170331)

Good point. Would a JSON import / export feature help, so you can save and load your data locally without it ever having to touch the server?

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:55PM (#24170292)

Good point. If this is a big concern, I'm happy to enable data export as JSON. Of course, you'd still need a visualiser that can read the data structure and display appropriate icons, but at least you'd have the raw data.

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Saturday August 15, 2020 @12:51PM (#24170263)

Thanks for the feedback cloudking, will add this to the feature request list.

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:32AM (#24169579)

Hi devonkim,

Thanks for checking out Isoflow, I'd love to know more about how you use diagrams in your work. The intention is to take Isoflow in the direction you're describing (i.e. being able to show different processes on top of the same diagram), so would really love to get your thoughts on what you think are the most important aspects. Please reach out to me through the 'contact' tab on Isoflow if you're up for discussing further. Thanks again for the feedback.

Re:Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams on Saturday August 15, 2020 @11:25AM (#24169522)

Thanks Jeswin.

I'm using Mithril for the UI and Paperjs for the actual diagram editor.