Personal productivity and notes
Visual canvases and diagram generators
Infinite whiteboards, mind mapping apps, and AI or text-to-diagram tools that turn ideas, notes, and prompts into editable diagrams, architecture charts, flowcharts, and slide decks for people who think and explain visually.
Built for: Developers, architects, students, knowledge workers
Projects since May 04
203
Different builders
192
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+6%
AI is the core
27%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (67%), developer tool or library (13%), desktop app (8.4%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/SaaS, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- GenoCanvas — Draws genograms, family trees with clinical relationship notation, locally in the browser and exports them to PDF, PNG, SVG or print.“I'm a psychotherapist and I built a genogram / family tree maker - which is prviacy first and stays locally on the users computer!”
- Kaavit — Provides a collaborative whiteboard with timed silent writing rounds, anonymous voting, AI grouping of sticky notes, and AI-generated diagrams with linked boards.“Built a whiteboard for our team meetings because everyone kept going with the first sticky note”
- archpane — Draws and live-updates architecture diagrams in a side pane next to a Claude Code chat session.“I built a live architecture diagram that lives in a side pane of Claude Code”
- Slidivo — Converts a document or text description into an editable PowerPoint deck with an approved outline first.“I built Slidivo — a Mac app that turns a doc into a real, editable PowerPoint. No subscription, files stay on your disk”
- Clean Slate — Provides a free online whiteboard for teaching, with a side pane for worksheets, live student boards joined by code, and maths drawing and calculator tools.“A free online whiteboard built for lessons instead of meetings (try it with no sign-up)”
- HistoryView — Displays multiple people, events and movements as colored parallel tracks on one shared horizontal timeline, with user-built timelines created from pasted AI research output.“Wikipedia timelines are one list at a time. I built one where several run side by side.”
- Assingly — Lets users drag items into visual buckets and share the arrangement with or without edit access.“I needed a simple app for assigning items into buckets so I created one”
- UnivNote — Lets users draw diagrams in a note-taking app and reshape them later by dragging editing handles on the shapes.“I made an iPad note app where you can reshape a diagram instead of drawing it again”
- mindmap.io — Provides a mindmap canvas where each node can be a live AI model conversation, with branching and multi-model support.“You and your AI agents' favorite mindmapping tool”
- Draft Canvas — Provides a browser-based canvas for quickly sketching diagrams during meetings.“Made a little tool for those tech meetings that suddenly need a diagram”
- Drawy — Provides a self-hostable collaborative whiteboard for planning and drawing that deploys to serverless platforms without maintaining separate containers.“Introducing drawy, a self hostable collaborative planning and drawing app (with platforms we all use on a daily basis)”
- FlowScript — Lets users arrange ideas on a whiteboard-style canvas as linked, groupable nodes and edit the same graph as typed text, kept in sync in real time.“Look, I've made a thing! Imagine a whiteboard and a node editor had a baby...”
- MindMap AI — Lets users build mind maps on a canvas with LaTeX formulas and Markdown notes attached to nodes.“We added LaTeX formulas and Markdown notes to our AI mind map app, would love honest feedback”
- Traceframe — Creates interactive low-level system design diagrams as a skill for AI coding assistants.“Traceframe : just skill to create interactive low-level system design diagrams”
- Deckly — Generates editable presentation slides from a written brief, with options to export to PowerPoint or share a link.“We’re building Deckly to turn a presentation brief into slides you can edit”
- Drawva — Turns freehand whiteboard sketches into spatial data that an AI agent reads to add diagrams, charts, and live content on the canvas.“I Built a Whiteboard With Eyes”
- Slidefy — Turns text or ideas into ready-to-use presentation slides.“565 visitors, 85 signups, $0 revenue. Roast my funnel, where is it leaking?”
- Whiteboard — Provides a lightweight teaching whiteboard with one-stroke math shapes, PDF and worksheet annotation, a laser pointer, and lesson export.“I built a free whiteboard app for math teachers — one-stroke shapes, PDF annotation, laser pointer”
- Shinguji Office — Converts written text into editable PowerPoint slides and reuses the visual style of an existing slide.“I built an offline tool that turns text into PowerPoint slides and copies existing slide styles”
- Graffiy — Generates editable conference posters and graphical abstracts from pasted research abstracts.“I built Graffiy to turn research abstracts into editable conference posters and graphical abstracts”
Most discussed
- Bento — Creates, edits, presents and collaborates on slide decks inside a single offline HTML file.“My side project hit #1 on Show HN (~1k points) - Bento: An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)”
- Reochart — Turns pasted numbers into animated charts, funnels, timelines and scorecards for social posts.“I made a little tool that turns your numbers into animated charts for social posts and blogs. Would really love your honest thoughts.”
- Generates presentations from input using AI.“Subscription plans issues?”
- thinkspatial — Lets users build a mind map by naming branch categories around a central idea and adding thoughts under them.“I built a spatial thinking map, but I’m trying to understand what people naturally want to use it for.”
- Slidefy — Turns text or ideas into ready-to-use presentation slides.“565 visitors, 85 signups, $0 revenue. Roast my funnel, where is it leaking?”
- Nodilux — Lets users build visual mind maps on an infinite canvas with freeform glass-orb nodes, collapsible branches, notes, images, and real-time sharing.“I have ADHD and every mind-map tool felt wrong. So I spent months building one that works for my brain”
- Everie — Turns time-bound data into visual timelines that users can build, share and use for process management and learning plans.“I built a great product, and now I have no idea what to do with it next. I’d like to monetize it, but I don’t know how. Any advice?”
- Totonio — Provides a diagramming canvas with bulk object editing, nested container resizing, and readable connector routing for drawing system and architecture diagrams.“I built a diagram tool for people who explain complex systems for a living”
- LLMVIZ — Turns pasted raw text into charts of selectable types that can be copied or downloaded as PNG.“Abandoned a side project a year ago. Logged back in this week to find 980 beta signups. Whoops. Rolling out access now.”
- Cygtree — Provides an offline-first mind map and whiteboard app that can be used with AI tools via MCP.“How to get people to try a software I made”