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Mermaid Chart Blog
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Mermaid Chart Blog is the company blog at mermaidchart.com, writing about programming and productivity. Since 2022, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 28 times, most often “Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.0”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-03, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mermaid Chart's blog, from the company behind the Mermaid diagramming library. Commenters link mainly to its playground and pricing pages; one links a post on combining ChatGPT-generated charts with Mermaid.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Create diagrams, flowcharts, and documentation with Mermaid
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.03 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-01-17
- Bad documentation is bad for developers3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-05-08
- Using flow charts to manage system complexity2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-06-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-21
- Special cases broke Microsoft Zune and can ruin your code base too2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-08-23
What Hacker News says?
https://www.mermaidchart.com/
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on “Building Effective "Agents"”Submitted Mermaid v11 Is Out: Advanced Layouts, New Diagram Types – Community-Driven as a story · 25 points
HN discussionYes, the argument was: You shouldn't freeze the bank accounts of people (trucker or not) just because you disagree with them. I don't see how this can be seen as controversial. The relation to the subject of the thread is Ruby Central. Here's the relation: https://www.mermaidchart.com/play#pako:eNqrVkrOT0lVslJKL0osy...
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on “Ruby Central's Attack on RubyGems [pdf]”Submitted Show HN: Mermaid Open Editor 2.0 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionIMO mermaid is awesome, but for two somewhat indirect reasons: - There’s an almost wysiwig editor for mermaid at https://www.mermaidchart.com/play . It’s very convenient and appropriately changes the layout as you draw arrows! - Notion supports inline mermaid charts in code blocks (with preview!) It’s awesome for putting some architecture diagrams in Eng docs.
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on “Mermaid: Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text”Submitted Using flow charts to manage system complexity as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYes! You can use this in the free mermaid playground: https://www.mermaidchart.com/play
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on “Show HN: GUI for editing Mermaid class diagrams”Submitted Special cases broke Microsoft Zune and can ruin your code base too as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou might map out your functionality and see what you actually need in terms of programmatic functionality. LLMs are actually decent at creating the boilerplate if you know what you need. Here's an example I had Claude throw together for states/substates for a door with a lock https://mermaidchart.com/play?utm_source=mermaid_live_editor... Wow. That's a lot of link. Here's the raw chart: stateDiagram-v2 [*] --> Clos…
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on “A replica of Citizen Quartz watch based on Harel's paper introducing statecharts”Submitted Show HN: AI chatbot on Mermaid Chart for simplifying text-based diagram creation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMermaid Charts is the company run by Knut Sveidqvist, the original author of Mermaid [1]. I don't think it's disingenuous at all. [1] https://www.mermaidchart.com/company
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on “Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code”Submitted Flow charts are O(n)2 complex, so don't go over 100 connections as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUsing the extension, you can see your changes from the Mermaid Code rendered as a diagram in real-time. If you also want to interact with the diagram itself to make the changes, you can do that using the Mermaid Chart Playground: https://www.mermaidchart.com/play
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on “Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code”Submitted Show HN: Teams – an easier way to collaborate in Mermaid Chart as a story · 2 points
HN discussionConsider this statement my own, but look at my profile for bias. I think you might be misunderstanding. Look at the companies there now: https://github.com/flowforge/flowforge - The CTO is the creator. https://www.mermaidchart.com/about-us/ - Knut Sveidqvist is the creator of mermaid and involved. https://github.com/koor-tech - Rook business, from a Rook Maintainer https://fleetdm.com/ - Long time contributor is CTO…
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on “Preventing the bait and switch by open core software companies”Submitted Streamline Your Diagrams: The Official Mermaid App for Confluence as a story · 1 points
HN discussionMermaid, the open source library and Mermaid Live editor[1] are free to use. Mermaid chart has a paid tier[2], and gives storage, sharing, visual editor, and more. Disclosure: Long time maintainer of Mermaid and works on Mermaid Chart [1] https://mermaid.live [2] https://www.mermaidchart.com/pricing
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on “Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M”Submitted Examples of Bad Documentation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionPeople should know, Mermaid and Mermaid Chart are not the same thing. Mermaid is just the JS library. Mermaid Chart is a diagramming tool built on top of it. https://mermaid.js.org/ https://www.mermaidchart.com/
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on “Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M”Submitted The risk of writing too many special cases into your code as a story · 1 points
HN discussionOnly a tangential comment, I generated a concept flow diagram using Gemini AI, to me it's useful as a high-level overview, to supplement the tldr: - diagram https://www.mermaidchart.com/play#pako:eNrNVU1P4zAQ_SujHPbGA... - conversation https://g.co/gemini/share/f1188eae8a07
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on “Corporations as Paperclip Maximizers”Submitted Sequence diagrams, the only good thing UML brought to software development as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://www.mermaidchart.com/#pricing comes from https://mermaid.js.org/ Maybe you could start with something similar?
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on “Ask HN: Simplest way to productize my graph layout algo?”Submitted Subhash-halder contributed quadrant charts to Mermaid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCreator of Mermaid here. Great input, quite inspiring! Here are another example of how ChatGPT chart can be integrated with Mermaid and by this having of tediousness with creating diagrams removed: https://www.mermaidchart.com/blog/posts/if-youre-not-excited...
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on “Mermaid Cheat Sheet”Submitted Bad documentation is bad for developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bad documentation is bad for developers as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Busting the myth that developers can't write as a story · 1 points
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