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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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WillAdams ◴[] No.43164555[source]
How do you label blocks/sections?

I've wanted to work with code thus, but it becomes a problem in that things are only really readable/relatable in single-screen chunks, and when one tries to show more than is accurately related on a single screen it becomes an unreadable, confusing, blurry mess.

Screengrab?

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1. jtwaleson ◴[] No.43164798[source]
It's interesting how everyone reading my description must have a different picture in their mind :) Right now I'm doing super simple treemaps, but I'm close to starting work on diagram overlays. No screengrabs yet.