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Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
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Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#32I run a small business, and for $3,600/year (unbranded), I will easily choose to stay with Inkscape. I understand the importance of branding, so "white label" is a necessity. My use case is to document process flow in systems, which remain unchanged for months at a time. Contact me if you want to talk about a pricing model that would make sense for my market segment. Maybe per-chart pricing.
I just wrote you an email but I'm replying here as well. If you just need to make some flowcharts they will not have a code2flow stamp in any of the pricing tiers. Maybe except free trial, but it does not watermark the output either yet. You are welcome to use the free trial until we have a paid SaaS or buy the basic self-hosted version. The enterprise version is for companies embedding code2flow in their own product…
Add it on your pricing grid. "No watermark" could be enough for some people to switch over from free to paid.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#33I actually built like the same tool for internal use at the last company I worked for.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#34Another alternative is [PlantUML](http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy) which also has sequence, class ... diagrams
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#35Looks cool! Can you share a really complex flowchart that uses most of the options?
I don't have anything large at hand that I can share. Here is a small real-world use case https://code2flow.com/wclEvF - and this is another https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ
In the latter example, please note that "Update failed: flash error" generates only one node in the flowchart.
The most complex flowcharts were created by customers and testers but I don't want to expose their data. They have hundreds of lines of code resulting in huge diagrams.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
I see, this arguably makes such loops easier to follow. I'll look into making it optional though.
I've seen this before but the edges join together cleanly: one of the edges "merges" (like a freeway on-ramp) with the other edge. In the demo on the front page, there's clearly a pseudo-node that the edges stop at, and it's jarring. edit: this thing: http://snap.philsnow.io/2016-11-18T11-19-57.mpfpkk55hj0dunqf...
Indeed, it does look a bit weird in that case. On the other hand check out this flowchart https://code2flow.com/KdNVeJ - the same thing looks very clear here.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#37I don't know what you are using as a graph layout engine, but if it can export to a few standard layout formats (dot file, GraphML etc.) I would use this all the time.
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#38Hey y'all, I've been working on this part time for a couple of years now. Recently it started getting more traffic so I thought I'd try sharing this project with hacker news. If it's useful to you, and the free app is good for most use cases, then hopefully it will reach wider audience. Cheers.
I hope your pricing model ($100-$300/month) is meant as a joke, and you're not really serious about it. It's extremely expensive. I can drag and drop text boxes in google docs just fine and it's not costing me a dime. The added productivity would be worth it if I was doing this all day long, but it's not the case (as a software engineer).
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#39If you are looking for a way to generate flowchart diagrams from a DSL description, the classic is Brian Kernighan's PIC: http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v8/picmemo.pdf
I am surprised at the amount of people that have never heard of it. It is probably already installed on your Unix system. There are several implementations with various improvements, such as https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~aplevich/dpic/
Re: Show HN: Code2flow – easy flowcharts with no mouse, no dragging and no hassle
#40Another alternative is [PlantUML]( http://plantuml.com/activity-diagram-legacy ) which also has sequence, class ... diagrams
This seems really cool, but why do they have packages with like 6 difference licenses on their download page?