Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor

Show HN: Free Mermaid Diagram Editor(moxiedocs.com)

20 points by ghosts_ 4 hours ago | 5 comments

I've been slowly adding some new free tools to Moxie Docs (partly for SEO, partly to illustrate some of our feature sets before any commitment) for some reason this mermaid editor one blew up on Google rankings so I figured I'd share in case people find it useful! We also have ADR, AGENTS.md, LLMs, and a few other free tools.

hackthemack 25 minutes ago |

Question for mermaid users out there. I have not used mermaid more than just superficially looking at it but it looks to me like a re-implementation of graphviz? Which has been around forever. Is there something it does that makes it more appealing?

I am not knocking this Free Mermaid Diagram Editor either. Seems decent. But, similarly, edotor has been around forever.

https://edotor.net/

BLKNSLVR 2 hours ago |

Handy.

I've been (very loosely) trying to get AI to generate diagrams for a while, and even Copilot can't get Visio's file format correct enough to allow Visio to open it successfully.

This is a nice clean interface I can just paste attempts into. Thank you!

keithnz 1 hour ago | |

just get ai to generate mermaid, it's super competent at doing it, you don't really need any other tools.

user3939382 46 minutes ago | | |

I’ve found that it can do it, but the aesthetics of the diagrams it generates are awful. I end up going back to manual Omnigraffle.

There is an art to designing the human to human communication aspect of diagrams that transcends which lines connect where.

nonethewiser 2 hours ago |

Probably because the official editor sucks after paywalling features and steering you into signing up.