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Arcentry Blog on Arcentry
Company blog · arcentry.com/blog · on HN as wolframhempelprogrammingsystems
Arcentry Blog on Arcentry is the company blog at arcentry.com, writing about programming and systems. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 73 times, most often “Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Arcentry as a cloud and infrastructure diagramming tool, not as a source of writing. Comments cover using it, its discontinuation, and comparisons with other diagram tools.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Map, explain, and monitor cloud infrastructure in one interactive diagram.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams7 people · 19 mentions · first linked 2018-07-18
- Arcentry: Create programmable cloud diagrams4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2018-07-26
- Scaling Webapps for Newbs and Non-Techies3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2018-07-27
- Our (not so smooth) journey productising a serverless app on AWS3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-06
- How to Choose a Database (2018)3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-08-08
- Service Mesh vs. API Gateway vs. Message Queue – When to Use What?2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-03-01
- Isometric Mermaid Diagrams with Arcentry2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-01
- Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-20
- Discontinuing Arcentry2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-27
- A tool to create 3D cloud and open source architecture diagrams2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-11-05
What Hacker News says?
If you're an employee, that's true - but as a founder of a small SaaS ( https://arcentry.com ) I genuinely work about 1-2 hours less and get more time walking with my dog through nature. I now have the luxury of concentrating on building the core product and writing articles for the blog and AI handles the things I'm less good at or passionate about, including marketing and content distribution, accounting, building…
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on “AI promised less work. I've never worked more”Submitted At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet as a story · 314 points
HN discussionCheck out Arcentry for Technical/DevOps style diagramming. Not really a generic library, but a nice new tool. https://arcentry.com
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on “Ask HN: Which tool do you use to create beautiful diagrams?”Submitted What the f*** is the edge? as a story · 269 points
HN discussionBlatant self promotion: But if you'd like your Mermaid diagrams rendered in pretty isometric 3D, we've added Mermaid support to Arcentry lately: https://arcentry.com/blog/isometric-mermaid-diagrams-with-ar...
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on “Pele – Mermaid diagrams as themeable SVG”Submitted Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams as a story · 75 points
HN discussionI'd love to learn more about your thoughts on this. I've built Arcentry ( https://arcentry.com/ ) and we've tried to pivot into Industrial Monitoring and Control (see https://vimeo.com/supralayer ), but ultimately had to abandon the idea do to complexities in the data layer. Logistics might be a more suitable field though - would love to get your thoughts. You can reach me at wolfram@arcentry.com
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on “Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams”Submitted Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams as a story · 63 points
HN discussionhttps://arcentry.com/ was nice, but they shuttered the service. https://shutdownlikeaboss.com/post/190564787340/wolfram-disc...
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on “Isoflow – Infrastructure Diagrams”Submitted An introduction to medieval cities and cloud security as a story · 62 points
HN discussionhttps://arcentry.com/
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on “What the f*** is the edge?”Submitted What comes after serverless? as a story · 24 points
HN discussionBeen using https://arcentry.com/ for architectural diagram. They offer a 3D viewer that can be embedded as well
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on “YUML – Easy Embeddable Diagrams”Submitted Arcentry: Create Beautiful Diagrams for AWS, GCC, Azure and Open Source as a story · 12 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, from what I've heard, that product is being discontinued for business reasons: https://arcentry.com/discontinuation-letter/ Which is a shame because the product screenshots look pretty impressive! I'm not too sure what the ultimate experience with 3D/isometric drawings is like, but the diagrams sure look cool!
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on “Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams”Submitted Arcentry: Create programmable cloud diagrams as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCool! Did you know about https://arcentry.com/ when you started this? Sorry on mobile so I won't look at your commit history to see if you started before. I know the guy behind arcentry so just curious.
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on “Show HN: CloudSkew – Draw AWS, Azure, GCP, K8s architecture diagrams”Submitted Show HN: Arcentry – Create Interactive Cloud Diagrams as a story · 7 points
HN discussionLocation: Berlin Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS/Node, Browser and WebGL, Networking and Protocols Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolframhempel/ Email: wolfram@arcentry.com Hi, I'm Wolfram :-) I've run deep tech startups, large-scale engineering efforts and build leading open source projects. I've got a bit of a gap and would love to help someone get an interesting project of the ground…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (March 2019)”Submitted Automatic Infrastructure Diagram Creation as a story · 6 points
HN discussionLocation: Berlin Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: JS/Node, Browser and WebGL, Networking and Protocols Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolframhempel/ Email: wolfram@arcentry.com Hi, I'm Wolfram :-) I've run deep tech startups, large-scale engineering efforts and build leading open source projects. I've got a bit of a gap and would love to help someone get an interesting project of the ground…
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on “Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2018)”Submitted Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI have been creating most of my infrastructure diagrams in https://arcentry.com/ and this seems to me like an overcomplicated version of Arcentry.
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on “Visualize AWS Cloud Diagrams”Submitted Arcentry – Create beautiful cloud and open-source diagrams as a story · 6 points
HN discussionthe viewer is always read-only. Actually, once you've enabled a document for embedding you could just use the same request the viewer uses to load its data, e.g. https://arcentry.com/api/embed/get?id=b03e4004-ffdd-49b4-9ca...
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on “Show HN: Arcentry API – Programmable Cloud Diagrams”Submitted Service Mesh vs. API Gateway vs. Message Queue – When to Use What? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | WebApp Techlead | Remote Only | Berlin Hi, I got more than ten years of experience creating WebApps, Frontends, and Visualisations that test the limits of what modern browsers can do. My projects include: - Arcentry, a programmable 3D infrastructure visualization tool ( https://arcentry.com/ ) - Golden Layout, the leading layout manager for web apps ( http://golden-layout.com/ ) - The Merchant Stocks…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (September 2019)”Submitted At 22 years old, Postgres might just be the most advanced database yet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | Berlin | Remote Hey, I'm Wolfram. I'be built https://arcentry.com/ - a beautiful cloud diagramming tool, https://vimeo.com/143728632 - a trading app for retail brokers, https://deepstream.io/ - a popular open source realtime server and https://golden-layout.com/ - the leading layout manager for Web Apps - among many other things. You can find more examples of my work at https://wolframhempel.github.io…
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on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2024)”Submitted Service Mesh vs. API Gateway vs. Message Queue – When to Use What? as a story · 4 points
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