Posted by JoshJamesAnthon 1 day ago
Vellum is designed to give you the speed of a whiteboard, but the architecture-diagram-finish in quality.
It uses YAML to store everything, and even has a 'graph' section for those of you who like the diagram-as-code elements of mermaid... but vellum allows full authoring of layout without the restrictions of Mermaid.
I love it to bits. I hope you will too.
Been working on it a while, but decided to make it source available here: https://github.com/blueprintr-io/vellum-editor
Proud to say its not purely vibe coded slop, but I used Claude to help with some of the more challenging geometry based elements and some housekeeping stuff.
The chargeable stuff is additional blueprintr functionality; such as AI features, enterprise authentication, live collaboration rooms, and links to 3rd party platforms.
Even Linux kernel is getting ai assistance these days, nothing wrong with using Claude, as long as you put in restraints and structure.
Press 'S' to open the shape & icon library
Two small UI suggestions: 1. Add dark-mode styling to the scrollbar so it matches the rest of the interface. 2. Consider adding a Tutorial button that opens a short walkthrough. A few slides with text, or a small GIF with an explanation, would make the site easier to understand for first-time users. Keep in mind that many users will linger on the website only for a couple of seconds and don't have much patience. It's important to show fast how the website works.
If you would like to try out some of the AI features of Vellum, or Blueprintr in general, email me your username to josh@blueprintr.io and I will give you 2 months of Premium!
AI diagrams are handy for quickly understanding something, but, in my opinion, not good for real documentation, or for anything complex that has a lot of nodes (it gets messy quick).