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Show HN: Vellum, the best diagram editor you'll ever use

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This is pretty good for network diagrams as well, you should rightly be proud of it. Many companies still use Visio which rarely generates a good looking diagram (of course it's based on the user, but Visio makes it difficult to do so), or Lucid charts which is decent, but has some limitations. Yes, network engineers still need to manually draw network diagrams. I would suggest getting some Cisco and cloud stencils and marketing to that crowd as well.

Even Linux kernel is getting ai assistance these days, nothing wrong with using Claude, as long as you put in restraints and structure.

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Lovely tool, but the UI and text are way too small. Makes it unusable. :-(
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We are seeing quite a lot of traffic! Thank you :)

If you would like to try out some of the AI features of Vellum, or Blueprintr in general, email me your username to josh@blueprintr.io and I will give you 2 months of Premium!

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looks interesting, but nowadays I hardly think anyone manually draws diagrams. Most of the time I generate plantUML or Mermaid diagrams via Claude
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You'd be surprised! but yes I agree AI driven diagrams are becoming the norm, which is why we support it too.

AI diagrams are handy for quickly understanding something, but, in my opinion, not good for real documentation, or for anything complex that has a lot of nodes (it gets messy quick).

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Nonsense marketing page if that interests you: https://blueprintr.io/about/vellum
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Looks interesting
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