I sucked at system design so I built a system design tool to learn
Howdy there,
As images are worth a thousand words, here's a quick demo of that it does.
https://reddit.com/link/1tikbqz/video/shjbg3voya2h1/player
A few months ago I decided I should step up on my system design game. As a frontend engineer working for a big company, I rarely have an opportunity to work on systems and it sucks. All the more so because system design is becoming increasingly important in the days of AI. And they're all over job interviews processes too.
So I went for the classics and started studying hard. And I've been loving it to the point I thought it'd be a good idea to create a small, very simple web app entirely dedicated to diagrams / system designing.
And it worked, somehow. I mean, working on a DDD project with systems at its core really forced/helped me wrap my head around what was what.
You might have noticed I'm a frontend guy as I've put a lot of effort on the UX and UI, I just can't help it haha.
I'm close to launching and the tool will be entirely free, with an optional premium access for agent use/db use (these cost dearly). Right now, I'm looking for testers, feedback, anything that'd allow me to provide a better experience.
UPDATE DISCLAIMER: just chatted with moderation whom I got a green light from to share my tool so sharing some more.
Questions, comments, feedback... anything welcome.
Cheers