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Hi there - I built Blotato to simplify creating and maintaining complex architecture diagrams, by combining declarative diagrams and automatic layout algorithms
by zen_lava 5y ago
Hi there - I built Blotato to simplify creating and maintaining complex architecture diagrams, by combining declarative diagrams and automatic layout algorithms. I've spent hundreds of hours creating and painfully updating diagrams in LucidCharts and other tools. And I always found it painful (1) there's no other option besides drag-and-drop (2) which makes updating them tedious, re-arranging lots of boxes and arrows. This is a rough initial version and I appreciate any feedback!
- troelsSteegin 5y agoOn Windows/Chrome, the left panel holding the diagram specification renders at about 150px wide, so it's really hard to read. Bigger picture, I think declarative diagrams are great. I do think beyond the challenge in getting a specification for a diagram to line up with a specification of a system in some domain, there's the challenge to support many flavors of system specification over a common diagramming substrate, and that that will be an important problem for you to solve.
- zen_lava 5y agoThanks for the feedback, I'll update the left panel. In future versions, I'm thinking of creating templates for different types of system specs, where each template applies a different set of autolayout algorithms.