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Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by koahmad »

Graffur wrote: post #20

It's a bit buggy.. sometimes when I dropped an icon in, it would disappear while I was typing to filter. Looks good though and I will try again on a non-FF browser in work. Where do the files get saved? One of the best things about draw.io is that it just works off local files.

Will look into the bug, sorry about that. Everything is cloud based. In other comments I got suggestions for a way to create diagrams without an account. I'm looking into that and that would probably include a local-file component. Thanks for your feedback.

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by d--b »

This looks amazing. Kudos

There is one feature I always wished existed in engineering diagramming tools: it's the ability to hook up some logging or status report.

For instance, on each of these nodes, there could be an ID, and I would send a post request from my servers that says "node ID x is down", and the tool would just show a red dot and maybe a "take me to the logs" button, that would be huge.

Which is to say, I don't just want a diagram, cause diagrams get outdated, I want a dashboard. Dashboards get updated, cause you look at them.

Anyways, just a thought.

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by koahmad »

d--b wrote: post #22

This looks amazing. Kudos There is one feature I always wished existed in engineering diagramming tools: it's the ability to hook up some logging or status report. For instance, on each of these nodes, there could be an ID, and I would send a post request from my servers that says "node ID x is down", and the tool would just show a red dot and maybe a "take me to the logs" button, that would be huge. Which is to say,…

Thank you! That's a great idea and it's what I'm working towards. I'd like the ability to connect your diagrams to various event sources or even metadata, to help keep them alive. At the moment though, I'm trying to put together the building blocks to get there.

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by Terretta »

koahmad wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I’m building a diagramming tool optimized for software engineering use cases. In previous jobs, I’ve had to draw many diagrams, whether to accompany design specifications or to explain something to peers. I’ve always felt drawing diagrams was too time consuming even though it was incredibly beneficial to my peers. That led me to creating a diagramming tool that allows software engineers to create diagrams quic…

Huge believer in model-aware diagramming. Filled out your Teams wait list.

Thanks for sharing!

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by lcall »

FWIW, you might want to search for project naming conflicts. Mine (an AGPL knowledge manager that stores arbitrary knowledge in a single data model, using postgresql & scala, hoping to move to rust and sqlite) is at http://onemodel.org (though nearly stalled due to health issues; I plan to continue in future though), and I remember finding some unrelated commercial project once, maybe onemodel-sys.com or such.

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by flashgordon »

koahmad wrote: post #2

Hi HN! I’m building a diagramming tool optimized for software engineering use cases. In previous jobs, I’ve had to draw many diagrams, whether to accompany design specifications or to explain something to peers. I’ve always felt drawing diagrams was too time consuming even though it was incredibly beneficial to my peers. That led me to creating a diagramming tool that allows software engineers to create diagrams quic…

Holy crap an author of that Paper is Peter Stuckey (was one of lecturers back in the day). What a great find!!

Re: Show HN: OneModel – Diagramming tailor-made for Software Engineers

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Post by bjtitus »

chishaku wrote: post #17

Check out mermaid [0] for plain text diagramming that's easily version controlled. It's also natively rendered in obsidian [1] without any plugins. Not affiliated, just very happy with this plain text and local workflow. [0]: https://mermaid-js.github.io [1]: https://obsidian.md/

Mermaid rendering is also hopefully coming to Github soon (Q1 - 2022). https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/372
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