Show HN: AsciiSketch a free browser-based ASCII art and diagram editor

34 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by schappim

8 Comments

greggman65

7 hours ago

I've never made one of these so I have no idea what all the issues are but I feel like I want it to act like presentation software. I want to be able to connect boxes with lines/arrows, then drag the boxes and have the lines stay connected to the boxes. I probably also want group things like I can in most structured drawing programs. Maybe that doesn't work well with ASCII

Like a simple example, I expect if have a object selected and press Cmd/Ctrl-C, Cmd/Ctrl-V I get a duplicate.

These interactions seem like basic table stakes

ynac

10 hours ago

Very Monodraw-like, but web-based. Same UI makes it an easy road replacement. I'll put it on my start page for when I'm not on my own machine.

schappim

7 hours ago

100% inspired by Monodraw.

dandersch

11 hours ago

Claude code seems to have gotten the backslashes in your circles mixed up. They look more round when \ is / and vice versa.

prabal97

12 hours ago

Wow! That was cool to play with.

1. How does one erase the drawings made with the pencil tool? 2. How'd you make this? Is this FOSS?

schappim

11 hours ago

1. It just removes the char

2. CC + minor tweaks by hand.

3. Yup, go nuts, view source and pull it apart.