u/mcgrillian

I’ve been working on Dagflo, animated visual explanations for software teams!

Dagflo lets coding agents like Claude, Codex, and Cursor turn codebases, pull requests, systems, articles, diagrams, and algorithms into animated, step-by-step visualizations.

After four years working in GraphQL infrastructure at Meta, I've seen countless engineering hours (meetings, message threads, whiteboarding) wasted and bad decisions made because technical knowledge wasn't communicated clearly.

Coding agents can now understand entire codebases, but they still explain them through walls of text, broken ASCII art, or static Mermaid diagrams.
We're using static tools to explain dynamic systems.

That's why I built Dagflo. I wanted to actually see how technical systems work.

This has been a passion project for a year; I'm really excited to share it! I've made a couple of other posts in the subreddit to gauge interest; now it is finally ready!

Early access is live dagflo.com

Follow me on X for Dagflo updates: deepok102

PS: It's forever FREE, so give it a try!!

Hey all! I've been working for the past 8 months on a tool that visualizes any technical concept, including code, system design, distributed systems, and more, into step-by-step visualization. Kind of like a video.

As software engineers, we spend so much time explaining ideas through docs, screenshots, and static diagrams. They're useful, but they often don't capture how something actually evolves over time.

I've been using this myself, although with a scrappier setup, to visualize Leetcode and System Design topics to interview prep. My big bet is that seeing state visually change step-by-step makes technical ideas easier for engineers to understand and explain ideas.

My goal is to eventually release it as a free agent (Claude, Codex, Opencode) skill so anyone can generate these visualizations from a prompt. Right now I'm focused on making the output consistently good. Potentially, I'm also thinking of open-sourcing the visual engine.... Let's see!

If you're a software engineer, would you find such tooling useful to your team? Appreciate all feedback!

I haven't launched a website yet but if you'd like to follow the progress, I post the visualizations and development updates on X / Twitter: https://x.com/deepok102