Launch HN: IcePanel (YC W23) – Onboard engineers with explorable system designs

Hey HN, Victor and Jacob here. We’re excited to show you what we’ve been building over the last couple of years! IcePanel ( https://icepanel.io ) helps architects and developers easily explain how their software works with interactive and explorable diagrams. Modern systems are complicated, and getting new developers up to speed and contributing fully is time-consuming and difficult. It costs the new developer's time, as well as the time of the senior first/second generation developers who help them constantly through their first 6 months. The resources people use to learn new systems are usually scattered across a maze of artefacts, like confluence pages or outdated draw.io diagrams, which are usually incomplete, with the ‘real’ understanding of the system being tribal knowledge in the team. As discussed in yesterday’s post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34328069 “documentation only works up to a point” and we believe this is due to docs being