Gleek - Free online diagramming tool for developers

Hi product makers and hunters 👋 Gleek is a free app that we built here at Blocshop to solve a problem we’ve had since I founded it in 2012. Developers almost always prefer using pen and paper to diagram, but this doesn’t translate well to remote work. As a company that services remote clients, and now with most of our team working remotely all the time, we needed a natural way for developers to collaborate when architecting our solutions or components. Of course we tried using all the standard tools and, sure, it’s possible to create a software diagram using any of them. But to us, the support in those tools for developers always felt like an afterthought. We also saw our team frustrated by having to be “artists” dragging and dropping boxes rather than using their keyboards to express their ideas. Therefore we built Gleek.io, with the idea of building a diagramming tool that was entirely focused on developer needs and preferences. We wanted something that was natural to use as developers, and would encourage rather than discourage diagramming on our teams. Gleek is all about speed over perfection. The idea is devs should stop wasting time perfecting the look of their diagrams, and instead clearly communicate their ideas with as few keystrokes as possible. Gleek had already existed for a year when we discovered Mermaid, a fantastic open source effort. We integrated this tool into Gleek as a way of bringing more diagram types to the tool, while still providing code completion and other benefits of a professionally supported SaaS product. What types of diagrams can you make with Gleek? ✅ Software architecture diagrams ✅ UML class and object diagrams ✅ Entity-relationship diagrams ✅ Sequence diagrams ✅ Flowcharts ✅ Mind maps and more The features of Gleek.io include: ➡ 16 different shapes to use ➡ Various connections based on the diagram type ➡ Diagrams saved locally in a browser as well as on Gleek.io servers ➡ Dashboard with the overview of your diagrams with the option to search ➡ Free Templates (type /) and Syntax help to make it easier to start ➡ Rotation of the diagram, SVG download of a diagram, diagram link sharing, fit to screen layout Example to try: 👉 Type "Shape1-->Shape2" for your first diagram Happy to hear your feedback and answer your questions 🙏

Very useful app! Another positive aspect of the app is that you look so geeky when using it:).

Wow this is absolutely awesome! Quick and simple! Just a few weeks back I was looking for a way to document my diagrams in my git repository so everyone is on the same page -> If this could in some way be connected to code (not sure how), it would be awesome! (Maybe a simple static site generator to show the diagrams on gh pages? not sure whats good. Or maybe it could be an app in VSC which reads a file in that format and generates an image in VSC directly, looks good to me too. Just some thoughts from me)

That's a slick product :) it seems to very handy. Good luck!

I have been looking for this for some time now. Will love to try this !!

Congratulations on your Launch. This looks really awesome! perfect timing with the exploding growth of remote work we are living in.

Right on time. Simple, but needed product. Will try it for my current project!

One minute guide and I was able to use it, liked it ! Git upload feature sounds great. Good luck!

While I'm not a developer, I use this tool to visualize business process flows during customer process change and process mapping sessions. I find it easy to use and a great way to arrive at a singular understanding of how a process needs to work. Thanks Gleek!

I've used it and I would like to say that this is the excellent tool for diagrams. You are making diagrams directly from code it helps me to think more about diagrams and spend less time in making them and most importantly it's free!. Thanks for sharing such a useful tool.

As a student finding a good UML diagram creator that does not cost boats of money (student budget) or is filled by watermarks to the point you can barely read the diagram is hard. Love the app and will definitely be using it for future projects!

I will forward this to my dev team.

Very useful product. Gratz!

I am glad you have focused it for developers. I am sure gonna use it.

Nice product. Congrate on the launch.

Any dev team will love using this. It's going to make life easier for so many projects. Great work!

looks awesome

Dude, this is radical! Ideally to have something compatible with dot format.

Wow ! Very handy to have that kind of tool nowadays !

Noice and smort :D Wanted to create something like this long time ago! Glad, that you guys managed to do it! Good job ;)