vellum-editor
A diagram editor for architecture, process and software diagrams. Runs in the browser or as a desktop app and saves diagrams as readable YAML.
Details
- External ID
- 1379916673
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- vellum-editor
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.14514476044068664
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 25, 2026, 1:03 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- diagram editor for architecture and process diagrams saved as yaml
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Building a canvas-based diagramming tool in React/Electron that parses and exports diagrams to structured YAML is a well-scoped task achievable with modern canvas libraries and AI assistance.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 165 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #138 of 166 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- vellum.nvim · github · 2026-09-22 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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