Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

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.

Intriguing - what’s the default visualisation? You mentioned treemaps, so a treemap of each directory with the files inside that you can zoom into to see the code? How is tree-sitter helping you here?

Treemaps are the default, and are great for finding outliers with heatmaps, but terrible in terms of explainability. So now I'm heading into architecture diagram territory, and tree-sitter is helping with extracting the names of classes, functions, variables etc. LLMs can make decent diagrams out of this.