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Matt Frank
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Design System Architectures in Minutes with AI

I got tired of spending hours dragging boxes in Lucidchart just to end up with a diagram that still looked like spaghetti. So I built something different.

InfraSketch turns natural language prompts into complete system architecture diagrams — in seconds.

How It Works

  1. Describe what you're building — "Design a real-time analytics platform that handles 50k events per second"

  2. Get a complete architecture — Not just boxes and arrows, but an actual system with proper data flows, caching layers, and failure handling

  3. Refine through conversation — Click any component and ask questions: "How do we prevent data loss during failures?" The diagram updates as you discuss.

  4. Export documentation — One click generates a full design doc with component details, scalability analysis, and security considerations

Key Features

  • 🎯 AI-generated diagrams from plain English prompts
  • 💬 Conversational refinement — ask questions, get answers, watch the architecture evolve
  • 📁 Collapsible groups — drag nodes together to organize complex systems
  • 📄 Auto-generated design docs — comprehensive technical documentation in one click
  • 📤 Export to PNG, PDF, Markdown — real artifacts you can share with your team

Who It's For

  • Engineers prepping for system design interviews
  • Teams drafting architecture proposals
  • Anyone who wants to learn distributed systems by exploring

Try it free: infrasketch.net

Full story: I wrote about how this tool helped me get promoted to Senior Engineer — the 48 hours that changed my career.


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