Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

fastflowchart.com

21–30 of 31 posts

Re: Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

#22
post #17

I think a few screenshots and examples would go a long way. Having to sign up just to see what the product is.. isn’t a great experience. Also, wasn’t able to use the site on mobile.

I was going to comment the exact same thing

I'm asked to sign in way too many times already, at least give me a hint of what I'm supposed to get in exchange or I'm going to err on the side of closing the tab

Re: Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

#25
post #23
post #12

Shameless plug - made a very similar app (no sign-in): https://autodiagram.vercel.app/

how is this supposed to work? https://i.imgur.com/2rFGesI.png

The model isn't particularly clever and isn't generating something useful here. Better model will for sure get better results - for now this is running free and without signup (and is quite simple). You can easily imagine that a paid tier would solve them though!

GPT-4 gives a better response fwiw:

``` graph TB Start(Start) --> A[Insert one end of the shoelace into the bottom left eyelet] A --> B[Make sure the lace is even on both sides] B --> C[Cross right end over the left end] C --> D[Insert the right end into the second eyelet on the left side] D --> E[Pull laces tight] E --> F[Cross left end over the right end] F --> G[Insert the left end into the second eyelet on the right side] G --> H[Pull laces tight again] H --> I[Continue lacing the shoe in a crisscross pattern] I --> J[Reach the top of the shoe] J --> K[Tie laces in a bow or knot] K --> End(End) ```

Re: Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

#28
post #17

I think a few screenshots and examples would go a long way. Having to sign up just to see what the product is.. isn’t a great experience. Also, wasn’t able to use the site on mobile.

Yes, show me what it does before asking to register.

Re: Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

#29
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice, thank you. The diagrams were correct but the choices of colors, line widths and fonts have room for improvement.

Great to hear it was helpful! What did you try to generate? Agree the formatting is not great. The tool is not intended to be 'perfect', with respect to formatting or to content, so if I continue working on this, I think the most useful step would be to add "export to Figma" -- and let you tweak there. I think this is most useful as a very fast prototyping tool.

Ever heard of privacy, buddy?

Re: Show HN: Side-Project: FlowChartGPT – Turn Text into FlowCharts

#30

Meta topic: How does such low quality submissions comes to main page when so many of good quality submissions struggle to show up? I'm not implying any fraud or anything but genuinely wants to understand how "SEO" on HN works.

Automatic flowcharts using natural language is clearly very desirable tool, hence a lot of clicks and comments.
Post reply on HN