“On mobile? Add a calendar reminder to install CodeViz” This is genius
where are you quoting that from?
Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
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Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#32Twice the monthly cost of Copilot seems crazy to me, and I’m nowhere near as subscription-hostile as most folks here.
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#33Diagrams of code can be done with UML ¹. A fairly decent ² standard with a set of different diagrams that can be created to visualize code. In those terms CodeViz will provide a form of simplified class diagrams and a function call mapping? Will there be sequence diagrams in the future? ¹ https://www.uml.org/ ² It has fallen out of fashion, since many people found it too heavy, and a lot of people have hever heard of…
Yes, we'd like to introduce more standard rules and visual notations as provided by UML. Did you get a chance to try the call graph? It contains functions and classes in one view. We're going to give the user control over the call graph's scope (whether to show functions, classes, files, etc), which would be closer to simplified class diagrams/function call mapping.
The info in sequence diagrams is useful - maybe we can show this using a hierarchical layout & edge labels
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#34“On mobile? Add a calendar reminder to install CodeViz” This is genius
where are you quoting that from?
Some text on our website's homepage (https://codeviz.ai)
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's correct, our server just routes calls directly to Anthropic. Some users requested an option to input their own API key and talk to Anthropic directly. I'll add this by the end of the week, maybe today if time. Local LLM is still the end goal
Ok. I think you should be more transparent about this, until everything is local. I mean, more than stating "We don't store any of your code."
Got it, how about a manual trigger for diagram creation and an explicit description of LLM/server usage on the page with the trigger?
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the feedback and resources! In designing CodeViz we were inspired by the Maya hypershade, which closely resembles the diagram-based blender tool that you shared. https://help.autodesk.com/view/MAYAUL/2024/ENU/?guid=GUID-22... These examples show how taking a diagram-based approach to software development can abstract away complexity with minimal loss of control over the end result. I love your image of "at…
Exactly! I've been wanting to have a GPT directly inside Blender to Talk Geometry Nodes - because I want to tie geometry nodes to external data to external data which runs as python inside blender that draws the object geometry that suitabley shows/diagrams out the nodes of my game I am slowly piecing together 'The Oligarchs' which is an updated Illuminati style game - but with updates using AI to creat nodes directl…
This sounds like an ambitious project with a number of interesting technical challenges. It may be some time before the tooling will exist to support your use case, but then again, you can always build custom tooling of your own! It's very interesting to see how with minimal intervention, many of these operations seem very close to being automated. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ok. I think you should be more transparent about this, until everything is local. I mean, more than stating "We don't store any of your code."
Got it, how about a manual trigger for diagram creation and an explicit description of LLM/server usage on the page with the trigger?
Maybe just the truth in plain text, up front?
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#38Twice the monthly cost of Copilot seems crazy to me, and I’m nowhere near as subscription-hostile as most folks here.
I get where you're coming from - Copilot is very cheap and useful! We want the free version of CodeViz to be as useful as possible for you. Some features, like the second architecture layer, are just expensive for us.
Personally, I spend a small fraction of my time actually typing code and much more time gathering context & building a mental map. CodeViz speeds up the mental map part, so we hope to deliver much more value than $19/mo
Let me know if there's anything missing from CodeViz that would change your mind!
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#39Codeviz is such a cool project. Love having it in VSCode.
Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code
#40I'd love to try this against my spaghetti, but I can't send my company's IP to you or anthropic or anyone else. I'll have to try against open source projects we rely heavily on first.