Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

25 pointsposted 6 hours ago
by ghosts_
(moxiedocs.com)

7 Comments

hackthemack

2 hours ago

Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing?

I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever.

https://edotor.net/

stronglikedan

2 hours ago

Mermaid has become the de facto charting language when working with AI, so it has been elevated to the chosen one, like Python.

BLKNSLVR

4 hours ago

Handy.

I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully.

This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

keithnz

3 hours ago

just get ai to generate mermaid, it's super competent at doing it, you don't really need any other tools.

user3939382

2 hours ago

I’ve found that it can do it, but the aesthetics of the diagrams it generates are awful. I end up going back to manual Omnigraffle.

There is an art to designing the human to human communication aspect of diagrams that transcends which lines connect where.

nonethewiser

4 hours ago

Probably because the official editor sucks after paywalling features and steering you into signing up.