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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

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Post by LiamPrevelige »

dickiedyce wrote: post #68
LiamPrevelige wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Hi Liam - can't seem to see a call graph. I've sent a report, but wasn't sure what to expect, as your site has a nice preview of the architectuer graph, but not the call graph functionality. Perhaps add a second preview? $19 does seem a little steep. Would it be possible to have a lower cost with a user supplied 3rd party LLM service key?

Thanks for the report, following up now. We'll make some updates to our website asap. Preview of the call graph can be seen in our video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgfDXUtWzRk. Happy to chat about reduced subscription price.

I created an issue for user provided API keys, tracked here: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/3

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by jschrf »

WillMcCall wrote: post #61
jschrf wrote: post #50

Very cool. Have built something like this in the past - let me know if you are hiring.

Curious to learn more about the project, what were you working on? We're not hiring at the moment, but let's stay in touch!

Static analysis platform with multiple language frontends and backends. Have some large scale renderings if you ever want to see them or take a poke through the repo.

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by ENGNR »

Doesn't mention a cost or trial period in your post or the website

After installing it, it doesn't even let you see the first thing without signing up for a trial period and even then doesn't mention a cost.

I understand you just launched it, but I look at the free trial and think "what else am I going to find out...", uninstalled for now but hope you find traction.

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by LiamPrevelige »

ENGNR wrote: post #83

Doesn't mention a cost or trial period in your post or the website After installing it, it doesn't even let you see the first thing without signing up for a trial period and even then doesn't mention a cost. I understand you just launched it, but I look at the free trial and think "what else am I going to find out...", uninstalled for now but hope you find traction.

Agreed this is a poor experience, we're making pricing very transparent now. Hope you give CodeViz another chance. Were you able to generate the top level architecture or interact with the call graph? If you couldn't use CodeViz, or saw the subscription modal immediately after opening the extension, this is a bug that I'll look into

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by geniium »

I have it a quick shot and I must say the UI is not easy to grasp. The graph is interesting and surprisingly well understanding my codebase.

But the navigation? Not easy to understand how to use it. Any video for helping us out see what we can do and how we can do it ?

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by ENGNR »

LiamPrevelige wrote: post #84
ENGNR wrote: post #83

Doesn't mention a cost or trial period in your post or the website After installing it, it doesn't even let you see the first thing without signing up for a trial period and even then doesn't mention a cost. I understand you just launched it, but I look at the free trial and think "what else am I going to find out...", uninstalled for now but hope you find traction.

Agreed this is a poor experience, we're making pricing very transparent now. Hope you give CodeViz another chance. Were you able to generate the top level architecture or interact with the call graph? If you couldn't use CodeViz, or saw the subscription modal immediately after opening the extension, this is a bug that I'll look into

Yep I did see some kind of top level graph, with a few items in it (maybe 5?), but that wasn't very useful. It was also quite small as it was in the left panel of vscode, so nothing of value at that point. This was with a pretty vanilla react/typescript codebase.

Maybe I was supposed to single click one to find out more? I double clicked for what it's worth, and got the message to upgrade. But given that it hadn't done anything useful yet I of course had no reason to proceed. Just early feedback, I'm sure you'll get it all worked out.

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by brandonpollack2 »

LiamPrevelige wrote: post #45
brandonpollack2 wrote: post #42

This is cool but it is way to expensive and the free version is not that useful. Tried it on the github.com/pulumi/pulumi codebase and I get 5 blocks and that's it. Seems nice but I'm not going to pay 20 bucks a month to view one layer deeper.

Appreciate the honest feedback! We're working hard to improve CodeViz, please let me know if there are any features you'd love to see. I cloned pulumi and exported both layers of the CodeViz diagrams into mermaid format: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/Pulumi-Diagrams/tree/main . I'm not familiar with the repo so let me know if anything looks off. Hope you find these useful!

Thanks, that is really cool, especially when ramping up on a code base. The labeling is mostly pretty good (though I'd not call some stuff "backend" but who can blame it for not knowing). I still think it might be too expensive as is but if I were using this to generate mermaids for everyone in my company a one time fee of 20 might be justified (you often dont need this continuously)

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by chrisweekly »

LiamPrevelige wrote: post #47
chrisweekly wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not the person you asked, but YES, it's a deal-breaker for me to even consider using at work.

On it! Tracked here: https://github.com/EdisonLabs-Inc/CodeViz-Public/issues/2

Great! Thanks. :)

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by lysace »

LiamPrevelige wrote: post #41
lysace wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe just the truth in plain text, up front?

Sure thing - we'll plainly state this in the extension's description, the extension itself, and our website

Hi again. I just checked the VS Code extension description - it hasn't changed.

Re: Launch HN: CodeViz (YC S24) – Visual maps of your codebase in VS Code

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Post by LiamPrevelige »

lysace wrote: post #37
LiamPrevelige wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

There seems to be a bug or comment depth limit, I can't reply to your comment below. I just published an update to extension description explaining that code moves through our servers. It may take a few minutes to appear. Since this post, we added a privacy policy to our website and the ability to input your own API key, circumventing our servers altogether. I will list this feature in the extension description once we have time to require manual triggering of architecture generation
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