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Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Creating a tool like this requires significant resources, is there a business model behind it?

The core team has a 15 year contract with an Atlassian consulting firm to produce and support the Confluence and Jira integrations with a revenue share model. Last financial year that earned us $3.1M, up from $1.8M the year before.

That’s great news! Draw.io is fantastic and I keep discovering new things about it. So thank you for making it easy to use with an optional rich set of options!

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Use desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases

Thanks for pointing this out! Now I can draw.io offline :)

Doesn't a footer pop up when you save locally on the online version telling you about the desktop version?

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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I use Draw.io for work all the time. It's far less clunky than Vizio. My one minor issue is, due to security restrictions, I can't really save a whole lot outside of my local and it doesn't give me the option to choose my preferred directory.

Use desktop version https://github.com/jgraph/drawio-desktop/releases

Omg!!!! Thank you!!!

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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post #17

Creating a tool like this requires significant resources, is there a business model behind it?

The core team has a 15 year contract with an Atlassian consulting firm to produce and support the Confluence and Jira integrations with a revenue share model. Last financial year that earned us $3.1M, up from $1.8M the year before.

Glad to hear that. Had an enterprise contract with you guys for years — mxGraph was an important part of our front-end stack.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The core team has a 15 year contract with an Atlassian consulting firm to produce and support the Confluence and Jira integrations with a revenue share model. Last financial year that earned us $3.1M, up from $1.8M the year before.

Glad to hear that. Had an enterprise contract with you guys for years — mxGraph was an important part of our front-end stack.

Good choice :). We do still evolve the project as OS, https://github.com/jgraph/mxgraph, since it's the base of our stack.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Ok, just a note to everyone ! It is online service and your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it. Please, do not post your company's secret in form of diagrams. Recently, we caught one of the contractors using Draw.io to make diagrams of brand new systems that we are designing(we are fortune 40 company). System is expensive, very sensitive.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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> draw.io is a client-side, static web application. There is no user authenication or data storage concept in this repo. The online version stores data in mainstream cloud storage options, currently Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab or Trello.

I love this about Draw.io. This is how I want to build my applications. I don't want to deal with storing any user data and rather let them handle it how they see fit.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Ok, just a note to everyone ! It is online service and your diagrams are stored in the "cloud" and you have zero control over it. Please, do not post your company's secret in form of diagrams. Recently, we caught one of the contractors using Draw.io to make diagrams of brand new systems that we are designing(we are fortune 40 company). System is expensive, very sensitive.

And where did the user store the data?

Addtionally, you can deploy a local version via docker, or use the stand-alone desktop version, https://github.com/jgraph/drawio has the links.

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