Open-source editable wiki with whiteboards for your codebase
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Hi HN,We’re Ruben, Afnan, and Theo, and we’re building Davia to make documenting and understanding codebases easier. Generating internal docs takes too long, diagrams are essential to grasp structure, and editable visuals are often missing from existing tools. Plus, most solutions aren’t open source.Davia is an open source tool. Point it at your codebase, and it automatically generates an editable wiki. Text can be edited in a Notion-like editor, while diagrams live on whiteboards and are fully editable too. Everything can be explored and modified either in your IDE or in the editor.The project is still early, and we’d love feedback, ideas, or experiences from anyone documenting code internally.GitHub: https://github.com/davialabs/davia
HN · launched Nov 18, 2025 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: developer documentation platforms · 70 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Integrating an open-source canvas library like Excalidraw or Tldraw with a markdown wiki and a standard GitHub API sync is well within modern vibe coding capabilities.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 69 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #41 of 70 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 12 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Open-Source Visual Wiki Your Coding Agent Writes for You · hn · 2025-11-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.82
- Davia · hn · 2025-12-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.78
- Indentra · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Noodles · hn · 2026-02-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Open-source .docx editor library for building document apps · hn · 2026-05-21 · 107 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- CodeViz · hn · 2025-12-01 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.38
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