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261 points david927 | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas that you're thinking about?
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jtwaleson ◴[] No.43157056[source]
I'm creating an infinite canvas that has all your organization's code and documentation on it. If you zoom in, you can see the code, if you zoom out you see the big picture. By giving everything a place on the map, it becomes easier to figure out your way through the landscape and understand the systems. Different modes can you show you different things: code age, authorship (bus-factor, is the person still with the company etc), languages used, security issues. There's time-travel, think Gource for all software in your company, and maybe the most fun: a GeoGuessr for code. Select the repos for your team (or if you feel confident, of the entire org), you get a snippet and have to guess where it is. The plan is for LLMs + tree-sitter to analyze all the code and show relations to other systems, databases etc.

I had the idea 2 years ago, but starting building in earnest 2 months ago. Spending all my time on it now, minus 3 or 4 days per week of earning money. Currently looking for a GTM/sales-oriented cofounder in NL.

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marcotac ◴[] No.43158505[source]
Sounds interesting! How did you validate the idea?
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1. jtwaleson ◴[] No.43158621[source]
I interviewed ~10 CTOs and the problem of codebases being too difficult to understand, people outside of the team having no clue what's happening and documentation being outdated is obvious to everyone. But when I asked how this idea could help, my take-away was that they couldn't imagine how it would work from my description. So now I'm building it and I hope that seeing it in action will convince people. I have some non-paying pilot customers and over the next couple of months we'll continue the validation :)