Not sure if you’re intending this to be usable on mobile but I found some usability issues from a few minutes browsing on iPhone (I most definitely intend to have a proper look on desktop later - looks fantastically useful): 1- overlapping text/images in header; 2- list of steps was the first thing that was open - took me a minute to understand I could close that to get to the diagram; 3- I couldn’t work out how to z…
We haven't focused on making the editor mobile friendly as most diagrams are too complex for such a small screen - hence why it sucks on mobile. I'm sure it's something we could improve later on as an "on the go" mode, but for now it's not been a priority. Is there a use case to use this on a phone?
Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs
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Re: Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs
#72As a consultant, I love this. As an employee however; nobody on my team, nor my projects, nor my wider organisation will spend the time to keep these updated. We can barely keep public-facing API documentation up-to-date. Diagrams like this are an order of magnitude harder to keep up-to-date, and Solution Architects will refuse to go to this level of detail, as they'd actually have to think through the problem and do…
Re: Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs
#73Is the next step creating and updating these diagrams automatically? That dream seems to come up and die in cycles over the years, but it may be possible now depending on the compute platform and network appliances you use. This push to automate by doing interesting things, like reading your network traffic ( https://www.akitasoftware.com/ ), could work here. I'm unsure, as is, how you fix the organizational and huma…
Automatically generated diagrams seem to be the dream for many of the developers we chat to, however we don't see this working as great as they believe. This is due to "the model code gap" which is where the abstractions we use to discuss software architecture rarely matches 1:1 with the source code. You can read more about this on our blog article below. https://blog.icepanel.io/2022/11/30/the-model-code-gap We thin…
Re: Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Automatically generated diagrams seem to be the dream for many of the developers we chat to, however we don't see this working as great as they believe. This is due to "the model code gap" which is where the abstractions we use to discuss software architecture rarely matches 1:1 with the source code. You can read more about this on our blog article below. https://blog.icepanel.io/2022/11/30/the-model-code-gap We thin…
Does IcePanel support the Structurizr DSL in any way?
Re: Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Automatically generated diagrams seem to be the dream for many of the developers we chat to, however we don't see this working as great as they believe. This is due to "the model code gap" which is where the abstractions we use to discuss software architecture rarely matches 1:1 with the source code. You can read more about this on our blog article below. https://blog.icepanel.io/2022/11/30/the-model-code-gap We thin…
Does IcePanel support the Structurizr DSL in any way?