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Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by FunnyLookinHat » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 1:59 PM UTC

justplay wrote: post #9

I use it everytime i have to draw any flowchart. It is not good as lucidchart but as it is free so i use it.

Same here! Ironically I think it's better than lucidchart because it's simpler and let's me just get my ideas down more easily.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by asicsp » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:01 PM UTC

probably not intended for this use case, but I use draw.io to create cover image for my ebooks

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by jackschultz » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:07 PM UTC

Well no kidding. I used this a couple days ago with a coworker where we had to make a quick diagram and didn't know what to use. I searched google, this came up quickly, was able to get it on drive so he and I could each do work on it, and then able to export to pdf pretty seamlessly. Figure if it shows up on HN a few days after discovering and using it myself, I should write about the positive experience.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by Coxa » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:09 PM UTC

My dissertation would be half as pretty without it.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by bigwheeler » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:09 PM UTC

Without a doubt one of the most useful 100% free software tools a dev has at their disposal.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by sylens » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:10 PM UTC

Used this tool for a while until my org finally decided to pay for Lucidchart

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by LeonM » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:12 PM UTC

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

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by brightball » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:14 PM UTC

jackdh wrote: post #3

Huge fan of Draw.io, with Visio still missing Mac support it's been great for cross machine architecture design.

OmniGraffle on the Mac is great. It's the only thing I've missed since switching to Linux.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by davidjgraph » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

LeonM wrote: 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.

Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

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Post by xiwenc » Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 2:16 PM UTC

davidjgraph wrote: post #7

TheHypnotist wrote: post #6

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

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