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Turn a Markdown list into an org chart, export PNG or SVG
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Write your organization as a nested Markdown list, one person per line with their title, and Chain draws the org chart next to it as you type. Indent a line to have it report to the line above, and mark departments in bold. Zoom the chart, save and load your list, and export the result as PNG or SVG for slides and docs. No dragging boxes around and no account. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Niche: diagramming and flowchart tools · 118 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Design Tools
- Productivity
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes Parses a nested Markdown list into a tree, renders it as an org chart, and exports PNG/SVG, all with common open-source libraries.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 275 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 276 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 340 days after the earliest competitor.
- MarkdownPic · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Markdown to HTML Converter · ph · 2026-11-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Everything to Markdown · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- dial369 · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- svgdiagram.ai · ph · 2026-10-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- SuperContentExport · ph · 2026-10-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- mivochart · ph · 2026-10-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Markdown Viewer · ph · 2026-09-06 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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