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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (June 2025)

439 points david927 | 2 comments | 29 Jun 25 20:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.711s | source

What are you working on? Any new ideas which you're thinking about?
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ttd ◴[29 Jun 25 23:12 UTC] No.44417484[source]▶
I'm working on a new app for creating technical diagrams - https://vexlio.com. It's an area with some heavyweight incumbents (e.g. Visio, Lucid) but I think there's good opportunity here to differentiate in simplicity and overall experience. I'm still in the fairly early phase, and I suspect I haven't quite found the best match of features to customers yet.

From a dev perspective this area has a ton of super interesting algorithmic / math / data structure applications, and computational geometry has always been special to me. It's a lot of fun to work on.

If anyone here is interested in this as a user, I'd love for any feedback or comments, here or you can email me directly: tyler@vexlio.com.

Some pages the HN crowd might be interested in:

* https://vexlio.com/blog/making-diagrams-with-syntax-highligh... * https://vexlio.com/solutions/state-diagram-maker/ * https://vexlio.com/blog/speed-up-your-overleaf-workflow-fast...

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1. BLKNSLVR ◴[30 Jun 25 12:19 UTC] No.44422357[source]▶
Looks really good an seems intuitive (from just browsing the landing page). Will look more deeply.

Diagram-as-code option?

ie. a language syntax from which a diagram can be generated?

I find a lot of the time taken up in doing diagrams is laying them out properly and then having to rearrange them when it grows beyond a certain size.

This may,however, be an old-man Visio user problem that's been better solved by more recent options...

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2. ttd ◴[30 Jun 25 13:59 UTC] No.44423363[source]▶
Some type of programmatic diagram creation is definitely something I'm interested in supporting. It's not clear to me how large the audience would be, so it's been hard to prioritize.