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Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves (voicedraw.com)

49 points by ajaypanthagani ↗ HN
I was frustated by having to draw system design diagrams by hand when discussing it with my team mates or in an interview. So I thought "Wouldn't it be great if someone draws it for me, while I think out loud?".

That is when I came up with VoiceDraw. You can just think out loud or discuss your system architecture with a friend/interviewer, the diagrams are automatically drawn along with your reasoning, open questions and tradeoffs beautifully written on to the side.

Demo Video: https://youtu.be/36PgHKSuccE

13 comments

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whiteros_e
the diagrams look better than what I would draw myself
abdullahkhalids
I am getting a "can’t connect to the server at voicedraw.com" error
faldor20
It's a great idea and something I would absolutely use. However I can't get it to draw anything at all. I just get one single box or some messy rubbish
eranation
Great idea! Just quick feedback. Asked it to “Draw a pelican riding a bicycle.”

On mobile the response (not a technical diagram) wasn’t visible, initially thought it just didn’t work).

Asked it then to draw a diagram for an X replacement, it nailed it.

awwaiid
Should probably indicate somewhere purposeful that it is built on Excalidraw
jareds
As a blind software developer this looks interesting, but the output descriptions are not useful. I asked it "create a diagram for a rest api with a database, app server, and cache." The diagrams alt text was "609 / 100k tokens used" The text it returned was "Created a simple REST API architecture with three core components: a web app server, a cache layer, and a database. Organized them into logical tiers." If it can generate the diagram it would be nice if the alt text was a detailed description of the diagram.
vivzkestrel
- stack?

- how lomg did it take you to build this?

- how many of you made this?

- how did you get the idea?

YassineKaibi
great tool! definitely prefer typing though, and it really reminds of excalidraw.
ldubinets
Cool! I built a similar tool at https://shimmerdiagrams.com

Would be curious to connect and compare notes! Yours is probably way better, I had built mine as a prototype and specifically interested in running all models local and in browser.

ajaypanthagani
Hi, your tool looks cool. Sure would love to connect.You can reach out to me at team@voicedraw.com