Need advise with SW product positioning!
Fellow hackers who write code and tech founders. We are working on a product that makes code comprehension easier but struggling to position our product.
As an engineer, which problem do you see more pressing? What resonates with you more?
- automatically create visual documentation for any project
or - visualize complicated code to understand how it works
or - answer questions about complicated code
Thank you hackers. You guys are the best.
If I was you, I would have just said
Visual Code Flow for your complicated project
This will clear 3 things
What Problem : Code flow / how different modules tie together
For whom : Big and complex projects
Unique selling preposition : Visualisation
Great thank you. In other words you see more value in understanding specifics of complex code as oppose to just "having visual documentation", am I right? Thanks again.
Correct. Please I believe this has to give holistic view for the new developer in the team.
Do you have any prototype how this looks like ? I am just wondering...
Sachin, the early prototype is at https://sourcespy.com. Our decission is around where to focus the development - overall picture or detailed flow analysis akin to this.
I think we should apply ICE framework here. E-mail me about that if you want.
This is a great reference. Never heard about ICE but it is very close to what I need. Thanks and I'll get in touch.
In my opinion this is a very useful thing. Beginners will be able to quickly understand the essence of a large project. Even experienced programmers will help to save a lot of time. Cool idea, and most importantly useful !!!
I'd say 2 and 3 kinda the same thing. You don't need to visualize the code unless you have a specific question in mind. If you can combine them both, I would say 2/3. Good luck!
Documentation is dead. I vote for #2 and #3 close behind but I'm not sure how it might work.