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mithunshanbhag

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About mithunshanbhag

Hi, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com, a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. Hope the community finds it useful. Looking forward to learning from & interacting with this community!

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    It's $500+ per month. https://twitter.com/der_rehan/status/1308242717307174912

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    Comment #23624428

    Thanks. Good point. Some time back, I've received a similar feature request for deployment scripts to diagram conversion (and vice versa). However: - A very, very small fraction of…

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    Comment #23624403

    cloudcraft, lucidchart, hava, cloudockit, hyperglance, cloudviz, cloudmapper disclaimer: I haven't personally tried out any of these

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    Comment #23624384

    Thanks. Clicking on the 'user preferences & settings' icon (on the left-hand bar) will take you to the same location. But yes, I agree that the UX could definitely be improved here…

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    Comment #23618975

    Thank you!

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    Comment #23618972

    Feedback noted!

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    Comment #23618964

    Click on 'add/remove icons' link at the bottom left on the page. Then choose 'AWS'. The aws icons should appear in the icon palette.

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    Comment #23617342

    Yes, true. However, here's a bit more context on the need for CloudSkew: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613510

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    Comment #23616134

    Thank you for the pointers! This is great info. Also, please feel free to file feature requests or bugs/issues over on github: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues

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    Comment #23616001

    Unfortunately, from what I've heard, that product is being discontinued for business reasons: https://arcentry.com/discontinuation-letter/ Which is a shame because the product scre…

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    Comment #23614692

    Good points. Will add this to my backlog. PS: The search box (on top of the icon palette) should make things a bit easier. For some icons, it can even search with synonyms (e.g. se…

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    Comment #23614258

    Thanks. 1. Does your team/org maintain a central diagram repository? Or do team members use their diagram tool of choice and then export diagram into a central doc library (e.g. gi…

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    Comment #23614111

    Try mingrammer (not entirely sure if that supports plantUML conversion though).

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    Comment #23614010

    Cool, yes. Adds business value, no :-)

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    Comment #23613955

    Nothing wrong with it. Answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23613510

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    Comment #23613929

    LOL. Good questions. 1. Haven't found the time to fill in the privacy-policy, terms-of-usage pages. Been swamped with feature work. 2. No, you'll never get ANY emails from us. 3. P…

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    Comment #23613839

    Thanks for reporting. Did you notice any browser console errors? If so, would you mind filing an issue here: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues

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    Comment #23613555

    Good question. While there are many tools for sketching flowcharts, mind-maps, UML diagrams etc, cloudskew has cloud architecture diagrams as its sole focus. Also planning your clo…

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    Comment #23613304

    Aha, good observation. I actually disabled snap-to-grid a couple of weeks ago (was making the mouse drag sluggish for some reason). Probably a bug on my end, need to investigate fu…

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    Comment #23613193

    I just tried it, worked fine for me. Can you please try refreshing the page? If you're observing any browser console error, would you mind filing an issue here: https://github.com/…

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    Comment #23612961

    Thank you! I'll be writing more about the app as it evolves in the coming days. Link for others: https://www.cloudskew.com/about/cloudskew-architecture.html

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    Comment #23612952

    At present, no. Details: https://github.com/cloudskew/cloudskew/issues/38

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    Comment #23612097

    Hello everyone, I'm Mithun, creator of cloudskew.com: a free app for sketching cloud architecture diagrams. Check out some diagram samples here - https://www.cloudskew.com/docs/sam…

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