Design, maintain and explore structured diagrams, built to increase your team's trust in your docs. https://icepanel.io/c4-model

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.

Thanks @mwseibel for hunting us! Hey Product Hunt! I’m Victor, maker of 🧊IcePanel, with fellow maker @jacob_shadbolt. 🙋 The problem In our previous roles, dev teams were usually misaligned about how our services worked and about tech decisions made. Teams regularly wasted a bunch of hours explaining how our systems worked, usually with unclear diagrams 💩. People used out-of-date diagrams in key decision-making, requiring costly rework and refactoring when things didn’t go as expected. Turns out this isn’t uncommon... 🧊 What is IcePanel IcePanel takes a collaborative approach to software architecture diagramming, using a model as the source of truth. This allows objects and relationships to be reused and keeps all your diagrams in sync. We made it easy for architects and engineers to contribute their knowledge and decisions to IcePanel, so they can easily align technical and non-technical team members. 🙏 Our ask to you Try out IcePanel and we’d love to hear your feedback. You can sign up for free or start a free trial for the paid features. We’ll be around all day to answer questions. Stay chill! 🥶

@mwseibel @jacob_shadbolt @victor96 Congrats on the launch of IcePanel! Simplify complex software systems with a collaborative diagramming tool. Great jobs .

Thanks @oe_zheng for your support!

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.

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?

@jacob_shadbolt as a new hire, understanding how systems worked was a huge pain point.

@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!

Insanely good user experience to improve the experience of a relatively mundane but critical organizational task. Helps you give clear insight into your organization and be at a better position to scale your operations. I highly recommend IcePanel if you appreciate good software.

Great tool, a quite fair free tier, but so expensive for teams.

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