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by tompreneur 672 days ago
Hey Hacker News,

I'm excited to introduce SnapDiagram, an AI-powered web app that allows users to seamlessly transform hand-crafted diagrams into polished, digital visuals. Whether you're sketching ideas during a brainstorming session or mapping out a quick process flow on paper, SnapDiagram can help you bring those rough drafts into the digital world, instantly and effortlessly.

How it works:

- Snap a photo of your hand-drawn diagram using your phone or upload an image from your computer. - Our AI processes the image to recognize shapes, text, and connections. - Get a clean, editable digital version that you can export in various formats, share, or enhance further.

Checkout how it works on this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2cq8B7vTXw
1 comments
groby_b 672 days ago
Congrats on building this into a working app!

But as far as I can tell, this is simply a workflow that e.g. ChatGPT and Claude have supported for quite a while now. (It's what I do with my whiteboard diagrams)

Which means you'll probably need to think of a value add to help it gain traction. I'm curious to see where you'll be taking it!

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humansareok1 672 days ago
The people willing to pay 20$ to learn to use ChatGPT/Claude to accomplish this probably doesn't have much overlap with the people willing to pay x$ to have a clean web interface to do just this one task.
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groby_b 672 days ago
IDK - the "help me get stuff done" crowd seems to use LLMs fairly frequently. If I'm wrong and they're disjoint markets, more power to tompreneur. But even then, it means his moat is very thin.

(It might have been a different proposition when doing this took major prompting gyrations, but multimodal LLMs have gotten pretty amazing in the last few months)

Of course, if it's just a hobby project, it doesn't matter. But if this is in search of traction, it very much does.

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