[jackhack]

I don't understand why this is bubbling up to the top of hacker news. I presume it is because of high demand and hopes for a native graphing tool, but is there some other reason I am missing? I ask because the project looks to be very early-stage. I see only very simplistic box-and-arrows charts which wouldn't be sufficient for anything but the most basic of ideas -- certainly not for publications or a professional presentation. And the information about its future path and goals is slight-to-none. The team has a very long road ahead to replace full-featured products like LucidChart or OmniGraffle. [edit: grammar]

[mtmail]

Generic support for a solo-developer working on a slick MacOS app. At least that's why I started following the project on Twitter a couple of days ago.

[dabockster]

Well there's also the fact that you're either buying OmniGraffle or tolerating Dia's dependencies on the Mac platform.

[rcarmo]

Because options are good? I use Visio on Windows but am constantly needing to do simpler stuff on the Mac at home, and even though PowerPoint works and I have an old OmniGraffle license, I'd love to have something "in between".

[lukefreiler]

I moved to a web-based tool called Moqups, which I absolutely love - you may enjoy it, I think it qualifies as a great in-between.

[rcarmo]

I’d much rather have a native app, thanks...

[csomar]

I've been looking over a year for something reasonably good and not as messy as Omni. I didn't upvote and it might be manipulated but I did enter my email.