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https://schematix.com/video/depmap

I'm the founder. It's a tool for interacting with deployment diagrams like you mentioned in your article.

We have customers who also model state machines and generate code from the diagrams.

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> Schematix provides diagrams as a dynamic resource using its API. They aren't images you export, they don't end up in My Documents. This isn't Corel Draw. In Schematix, you specify part of your model using a graph expression, and the system automatically generates a diagram of the objects and relations that match. As your Schematix model changes, the results of the graph expression may change, and thus the visual diagram will also change. But the system doesn't need you to point and click for it. Once you've told it what you want, you're done.

What an interesting tool! It's rare to see robust data models, flexible UX abstractions for dev + ops, lightweight process notations, programmatic inventory, live API dashboards and a multi-browser web client in one product.

Do you have commercial competitors? If not, it might be worth doing a blog post and/or Show HN on OSS tooling (e.g Netbox inventory, netflow analysis of service dependencies) which offer a subset of Schematix, to help potential customers understand what you've accomplished.

Operational risk management consultants in the finance sector could benefit from Schematix, https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/risk-and-resilience/ou.... Lots of complexity and data for neutral visualization tooling.

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Schematix is somewhat unique. Direct competitors? -- not exactly, but IT asset managers, DCIM, BC/DR tools, and CMDBs are all competitors to some degree.

Some of our best users are professional consultants who use us for a project which often introduces us to a new customer.

A Show HN would certainly be in order. Thanks for the thoughts!