Also a good choice for fast easy prototyping and wireframing.
Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.
Pretty sure they know what they are doing with pricing (and "charge more" mantra and all that) but I wonder if there will be more people paying if the prices were lower. With cheap storage and serverless compute one would think pricing could be better. PS: The UX is great and the diagrams are beautiful but I don't use it enough to pay THAT much. It's totally OK though, I'm probably not in the target market.
I’d probably make 10-20 diagrams in the next two years. That’s $20 to $10 per diagram and then more if I want to keep them on their platform.
$200 per two year period for mostly client-side diagram software doesn’t sound like a deal to me.
Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.
Just checked it out - it's incredibly stringent. It doesn't adjust your "free board" limit even if you delete a board. Create a board, delete it just to try out the interface? One of your free boards is gone forever. Love the interface, hate the free plan.
You can restore your deleted board, manually remove all content and reuse it — but that’s them making it intentionally more painful than necessary.
So, draw.io it is.
Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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> mainstream cloud storage options, currently Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Github, Gitlab or Trello. Anybody know of a library of service (preferably open source) that offers an easy API to interact with all these in such a way?
I would also love such a library. I currently follow the same pattern of making web apps that only use local storage so I don’t have access to user data, but would like to allow users to easily use their existing cloud services for persistence.
Check out https://kloudless.com! (Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder)
Here's our open source file picker: https://github.com/kloudless/file-explorer/ (the server-side is closed source and requires a paid subscription beyond a point)
Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
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At some point, I actually paid for LucidChart for a year. Last time I used it, before switching to draw.io, it became slow to the point of being unusable once you had a few pages in a document. And I was making an animation where each page showed the next step in a process, so there were a lot of pages. This was a couple of years ago, so things may have changed since. My diagrams may have a bunch of elements on them,…
> This was a couple of years ago, so things may have changed since. Yes, Lucidchart's performance has improved in the past couple years. And we now have resources dedicated to improving performance. > From that perspective, these isn't much difference between any of these programs, so there's just no reason to use a paid product. That's fair. I think Lucidchart's main advantage is more advanced functionality. And if…
what is the advanced functionality?
Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
#196Is it possible to add Monodraw ( https://monodraw.helftone.com/ ) style text art to this ? I would pay for something that is browser only and generates really nice text art for diagrams.
monodraw is cool until you actually try making anything more than a simple diagram. It becomes tedious to manage all the different elements you create. Also, the developer hasn't updated the application in over a year and doesn't respond to customer messages.
If you want ascii-style diagrams there are a few free web apps which work 100% better than monodraw.
Re: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
#197If you're looking for a fantastic diagramming site, I would recommend checking out [Whimsical]( https://whimsical.com/ ). I've tried out a lot of solutions over the years (draw.io, LucidChart,Gliffy, etc.). Whimsical is the first that really nails the UI/UX. You spend less time fighting the system to make something that looks great and more time just building out your diagram. I'm not associated with the product at a…
Love the interface and the fact that it's written in Clojure but it's worth mentioning Whimsical is $10/month vs. draw.io being free forever, and the Whimsical limited intro version is crippled in some quite annoying ways.
its an infinit canvas...so infinit space..so no need to pay if no collaboration needed :)