[mkarnicki]

* Stackdraft

* https://www.stackdraft.io/

* Create and present 2D/3D cloud architecture diagrams that look great.

* Stage: Launched over a month ago, currently at $120 MRR. Get your hands on the early adopter plan ;)!

* Plans: Offer team plans, more cloud service models.

[gitgud]

Wow I love the idea and how the landing page suggests options on what you might like.

I appreciate good system architecture and this looks like a great way to convey that information.

This is the current way I convey architecture diagrams https://old.benwinding.com/but-how/?

[mkarnicki]

Glad you like it :)! Thanks for sharing the link. One of the reasons I created Stackdraft was the thought "why cloud architecture diagrams can't look good as well?". It's like we're constrained to crude tools, but the technology has gone so far already :)

[Down_n_Out]

This looks kinda like draw.io, did you get your inspiration from them?

[mkarnicki]

I went through a bunch of diagraming options. draw.io is 2D diagraming only. There's also Lucidchart and few others. One other option seems to provide more than flat diagramming, but it's fixed to isometric projection (so, it is flat in the end).

I was also inspired by these diagrams from Amazon [1]. In Stackdraft, you press V key and toggle between 2D and 3D. You have full control over the point of view :). You can also create an animated presentation, like this one [2] - that one was just to show off a few AWS 3D models, so it's quite simplistic, but you get the idea :).

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/#aws-ref-arch

[2] https://twitter.com/stackdraft_io/status/1036557211554787331