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Show HN: VoiceDraw – Talk system design out loud, the diagrams draw themselves

20 pointsby ajaypanthaganitoday at 7:13 PM8 commentsview on 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


Comments

eranationtoday at 10:23 PM

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.

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faldor20today at 10:11 PM

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

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abdullahkhalidstoday at 9:27 PM

I am getting a "can’t connect to the server at voicedraw.com" error

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whiteros_etoday at 8:16 PM

the diagrams look better than what I would draw myself

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