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IcePanel — Explain complex software systems
IcePanel is a collaborative diagramming tool that helps software engineering and product teams align on technical decisions. Create an interactive map of your software systems and give your teams full context of how things work today and in the future.
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@mwseibel @jacob_shadbolt @victor96 Congrats on the launch of IcePanel! Simplify complex software systems with a collaborative diagramming tool. Great jobs .
Love your youtube channel! i was going to ask what is “c4” but then saw a video about it. Beautiful website too and killer product. wish we had this at my old company.
Thanks @alexdanilowicz - What stuck out to you as something you wished you had at your previous company?
@alexdanilowicz absolutely, and we hear that problem all too often. It's a massive part of what we're building to solve here at IcePanel!
Congrats on the launch, this is amazing guys! Really love the product, the design is beautiful and intuitive. This is going to make cross-team collaboration and understanding of the underlying systems so much easier.
@burcs Thanks Brandon! What's stands out to you to help cross team collaboration the most?
Cheers @teddyni! We've seen all sorts of tools being used in unstructured and unconnected ways, which is a core reason why the "out-of-date" problem is still such a pain!
We've been using IcePanel for almost a year now. It was foundational in communicating our move from a distributed monolith (which had never been diagramed before) to a properly distributed event driven serverless architecture. It has become a tool that the engineering teams use to keep us all in sync with a good mental model of our somewhat complex and evolving set of services and messages.
The rate of evolution and improvement of the product over this last year has been remarkable. Victor and Jacob's vision and ability to translate the C4 model into one of the most powerful modeling/diagramming tool I've seen is remarkable. It's rare to see a small team be able to have such a cohesive view and execute so beautifully with a sophisticated UI implementation.
I look forward to IcePanel becoming a core tool for modeling and communicating about complex systems.
Thanks for the kind words @rjberger! It's been a pleasure working with you and your team over the last year, and look forward to continuing to push the product even further!
Getting architecture represented visually is always hard in my experience. In an engineering/product team, who tends to be the producer of the IcePanel diagram and who is the consumer? Curious about PMs vs Engineers specifically.
I've used IcePanel - it's good to see it on ProductHunt! It's a great tool and the team ship feature FAST. Keep up the good work folks
@dave_recap thanks for your support Dave! What's your favorite feature inside IcePanel right now?
Looks really good! Just wondering what the benefits are of the C4 model? Why C4 over another?
Congrats on the launch!
@khendricksen The main benefit of the C4 model is the simple structure it provides for your architecture. This allows you to zoom in to see more technical detail for the audiences that need to.
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