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Eraser
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Eraser is the company blog at eraser.io, writing about programming and ai. Since 2023, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Show HN: DiagramGPT – Diagrams from code and natural language”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The comments link Eraser's product pages, an AI diagramming tool with diagram-as-code and a free-form canvas, and its DiagramGPT tool that generates diagrams from code or natural language. None comment on writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Create technical diagrams using AI. Deliver consistent, accurate designs faster.
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: DiagramGPT – Diagrams from code and natural language3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-18
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-02
What Hacker News says?
I was curious about Mistral so I made a few visualizations. A high level diagram w/ links to files: https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=uttKbhgCgmbmLp8OF... Specific flow of an OCR request: https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=CX46d1Jy5Gsg3QDzP... (Disclaimer - uses a tool I've been working on)
Comment linking /git-diagrammer?diagramId=CX46d1Jy5Gsg3QDzPOah
on “Mistral OCR”Submitted On building with AI as a story · 7 points
HN discussionThis is exactly (one of) our use cases at Eraser - taking code or natural language and producing diagram-as-code DSL. As with other situations that want a custom DSL, our syntax has its own quirks and details, but is similar enough to e.g. Mermaid that we are able to produce valid syntax pretty easily. What we've found harder is controlling for edge cases about how to build proper diagrams. For more context: https:/…
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on “What we've learned from a year of building with LLMs”Submitted Made a tool for generating diagrams of your codebase as a story · 3 points
HN discussionEraser | https://eraser.io/ | Full-time | San Mateo, CA | ONSITE | Software Engineer At Eraser, we're building the copilot for technical design. We're the leader in AI-powered diagramming and have built a platform that includes proprietary diagram-as-code implementation, a free-form infinite canvas, and a markdown-compatible document editor used by hundreds of thousands of users every month. Interested? We'd love to…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)”Submitted Open-Sourcing Eraser Diagrams as a story · 2 points
HN discussioni have been quite enjoying https://www.eraser.io/diagramgpt
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on “Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text”Submitted Navigating the Landscape of Application Hosting Options as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHave you seen Eraser? https://www.eraser.io/
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on “Show HN: ThinkPost – split-panel note taking & brainstorming app for devs”Submitted Show HN: DiagramGPT – Diagrams from code and natural language as a story · 2 points
HN discussionEraser, https://eraser.io/ looks awesome. I signed up but had to try a few times with the Passwords (mine was a 42-character with all the jazz generated by 1Password).
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on “Ask HN: Guidelines for making clear architecture diagrams”Submitted Parallel Paths: Building New Systems Alongside Legacy Systems as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was also unclear what this actually did. Not sure how much this helped, but it is a nice visualization of what's happening: https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=ysiiD14zhpPemvoJO...
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on “A JPEG Image Compression Service Using Part Homomorphic Encryption (2019)”Submitted Building Dynamic Toolbars and Menus as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Generate DDL directly generate SQL statements to create your database tables. Looks like it's capable of turning a diagram to SQL too? That's neat! For those that are interested in an GPT-powered tool, we have a project that can generate diagrams from code of any language or natural language: https://eraser.io/diagramgpt
Comment linking /diagramgpt
on “Show HN: Databasediagram.com – Private, Text to Entity-Relationship Diagram Tool”Submitted Eraser – Figma for Engineers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAfter seeing some really cool tools that build high-level overview diagrams of a repo, we wanted to see if we could create a tool for building any diagrams from a codebase (for the diagrams we support, which are architecture, ERD / schema, flow charts, and sequence diagrams). Try it out on any public Github repo! A few notes: 1) Works best if you are pretty explicit with the prompt. We're only offering 2 free runs r…
Comment linking /git-diagrammer?diagramId=uK7UptrWd4EEYy9eOWhi
on “Made a tool for generating diagrams of your codebase”Submitted DiagramGPT – Draw Flowcharts with AI as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi HN - Excited to share DiagramGPT. Diagrams are helpful to have but painful to draw. What if you could generate diagrams from what you already have? Like code or project descriptions? • Code → Diagrams • Natural language → Diagrams Would love to get feedback and happy to answer any questions. https://eraser.io/diagramgpt
Comment linking /diagramgpt
on “Show HN: DiagramGPT – Diagrams from code and natural language”Had fun making this visualization of how security works - look right? https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=Gyr7VvuFOGNGsnznQ...
Comment linking /git-diagrammer?diagramId=Gyr7VvuFOGNGsnznQLio
on “SpacetimeDB: Multiplayer at the speed of light”