Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor(moxiedocs.com)
25 pointsby ghosts_6 hours ago5 comments
  • rdwrrr2 minutes ago
    Thanks for dropping this here. I have been frustrated for quite some time. I blindly followed the advice to learn some mermaid. Then I discovered that the ecosystem absolutely sucks.
  • thangalinan hour ago
    https://kroki.io/#try

    Shout out to Kroki, which offers Mermaid and many other text-based diagramming formats.

  • hackthemack2 hours ago
    Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing?

    I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever.

    https://edotor.net/

    • stronglikedan2 hours ago
      Mermaid has become the de facto charting language when working with AI, so it has been elevated to the chosen one, like Python.
  • BLKNSLVR4 hours ago
    Handy.

    I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully.

    This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

    • keithnz3 hours ago
      just get ai to generate mermaid, it's super competent at doing it, you don't really need any other tools.
      • user39393823 hours ago
        I’ve found that it can do it, but the aesthetics of the diagrams it generates are awful. I end up going back to manual Omnigraffle.

        There is an art to designing the human to human communication aspect of diagrams that transcends which lines connect where.

  • nonethewiser4 hours ago
    Probably because the official editor sucks after paywalling features and steering you into signing up.