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by geoah 2873 days ago
This seems like a nice (and non aws-only) replacement for cloudcraft, thank you.

I wonder why both services limit their assets to only architecture-level components and provide people a generic library with assets for uml or other diagrams. I'd definitely be interested in a 3d alternative to eg lucidcharts.

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Thank you for your kind words. Yes - Stackdraft was partially inspired by Cloudcrafts sole focus on AWS. I don't blame Tomas though, only on surface supporting multiple providers seems like an easy task - I'm sure it's not. At this early stage of Stackdraft I focused on diagramming and presenting and naturally plan to add more advanced features.

To answer your second statement - I think it's a matter of doing one thing only and one thing well. While I do plan to support sub-resource level items like containers, I doubt the tool will reach as far as UML/software modeling, at least not in the foreseeable future. Do note I received lots of feedback from a LucidCharts users, who draws architecture diagrams, and in general there's a few good parts of LucidCharts I'd like to take example from.

Regardless, I will always welcome any ideas for Stackdraft, so thank you very much for your feedback :)! I appreciate you took time to leave this comment.