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After 3 years of tinkering, experimenting, and late-night coding sessions, my isometric diagramming tool - Isoflow.io - has officially hit v3!

This project has been my creative outlet for simplifying how we explain complex systems. And now, it’s packed with new features to make designing and communicating ideas about business processes, information flows and IT networks more impactful.

AI Icon Generator: Use custom icons to represent components in your diagrams. Animation Builder: Bring your diagrams to life with step-by-step animated tours. Multi-Layered Views: Dive into details or zoom out for the big picture.

And yes, the editor is free to use, so give it a try and let me know what you think.

I took 6 months off to work on a side project and build a business out of it. It was one of the best things I've ever done. The job I got straight after was a direct result of my side project. Although the business did not thrive, I learnt a lot about what not to do as well. 6 months is a long time, and I felt too comfortable taking my time with things like trying to make the code perfect. If I were to do it all over again, I would have focussed more on other parts of the business like marketing and creating value than writing clean code.

Thankyou, more icons released just a few mins ago.

I'd be really interested to hear which icons you're missing. I'm actually just about to push an update that will add a few more icons to the library (i.e. queues, caches, DNS etc). Expect those over the next few hours. Will try to include any suggestions in the next release. Thanks for checking it out!

Architecture diagrams should be easy to read and easy to maintain. This is exactly why I'm building https://isoflow.io

Thanks for the advice, I'm currently updating the data structure and will keep this in mind

Good point. Would a JSON import / export feature help, so you can save and load your data locally without it ever having to touch the server?

Good point. If this is a big concern, I'm happy to enable data export as JSON. Of course, you'd still need a visualiser that can read the data structure and display appropriate icons, but at least you'd have the raw data.

Thanks for the feedback cloudking, will add this to the feature request list.

Hi devonkim,

Thanks for checking out Isoflow, I'd love to know more about how you use diagrams in your work. The intention is to take Isoflow in the direction you're describing (i.e. being able to show different processes on top of the same diagram), so would really love to get your thoughts on what you think are the most important aspects. Please reach out to me through the 'contact' tab on Isoflow if you're up for discussing further. Thanks again for the feedback.

Thanks Jeswin.

I'm using Mithril for the UI and Paperjs for the actual diagram editor.