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Awesome that you added the api feature so soon, definitely makes things more interesting, having live data/configs syncing. Congrats on the launch!

Cheers! curious what people will build with it

I'd be interested in getting the ui/diagrams via an API, so I can integrate into our app, render in custom ways. Not using an iframe or embed, but just the structure of a diagram that was built earlier on your normal platform, maybe with the device icons as a png/svg url possibly.

Side question, is there currently a lighter weight embed avail, that would live update etc? or only the builder UI?

Actually, that's a great idea - being able to publish the whole document as JSON (a bit like Google Doc's Publish to Web feature which Arcentry is using to load its component data from a spreadsheet). It definitely makes sense to add that to the export options, thanks for suggesting. In regards to embedding, I'm afraid there's currently only image download or the embed as the 3D viewer available (which is about 500k, granted)

thanks, does the viewer come in a readonly option?

the viewer is always read-only. Actually, once you've enabled a document for embedding you could just use the same request the viewer uses to load its data, e.g. https://arcentry.com/api/embed/get?id=b03e4004-ffdd-49b4-9ca...

Nice concept. And I think it can be tweaked to be more generic too. For example, to use for app documentation.

A project built on top of framework (e.g. Rails, Phoenix) just needs an adapter that transforms project's modules to metadata, POST them to Arcentry. Bam! You got a visual document for project.

For example, Phoenix(Elixir), the @moduledoc could be useful too if Arcentry component has something like `description` attributes.

Looks really cool and will definitely make my life easier as I’m thinking about my infrastructure.

wow, is this the first tool that can do this?

PRTG has a pretty good device map, that integrates pretty seamlessly with the monitoring data it collects, but it's geared for more traditional network/IT environments. They do have cloud stuff now, but I like that Arcentry is built from the ground up for modern tooling/cloud environments.

This looks cool, a lot more open than cloudcraft (and cheaper!) How long has Arcentry been around?

It's brand new, launched six weeks ago.

Ha, can't signup if you have uBlock installed.

I thought I was going crazy, it blocks the popup.

Oh dear, thanks for mentioning - the one for Google Signup or just the HTML overlay?

The HTML overlay

Thats amazing! great progress!

Thanks so much :-)

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