I have a bunch of bad layouts so I'll give it a shot, but there's no way my org would pay 120 a year per seat for this. I don't think for any price it would get through procurement to be honest. Also we mostly render mermaid in confluence documents with a macro that renders it from the source in the document. Not sure how that would relate to this pricing/auth model.<p>Not trying to throw any shade or dissuade you from trying to earn a living, just providing feedback.
Graph layout is a very interesting, very hard problem.<p>There's even a yearly competition - started in 1994 - whose results are announced at the yearly Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.<p>It's not a subject I'm versed in, but can you talk more about your solution? Do you use a larger constraint solver or is it hand-coded?<p>--<p>Competition: <a href="https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/" rel="nofollow">https://mozart.diei.unipg.it/gdcontest/</a><p>The 34th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, to be held in Ontario, Canada: <a href="https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2026/" rel="nofollow">https://graphdrawing.github.io/gd2026/</a><p>n.b. It's an independent conference, not under the auspices of e.g. IEEE or ACM.
FYI for any new or casual Mermaid users, it comes with a built-in alternate layout called `elk` that I find does a much cleaner job on complex flowcharts.<p>See docs here: <a href="https://mermaid.ai/open-source/config/layouts.html" rel="nofollow">https://mermaid.ai/open-source/config/layouts.html</a>
This solves my <i>biggest</i> gripe with Mermaid.<p>It's an amazing tool, but I wish it were open source.
Looks cool. Price is pretty steep. Lucid chart is like $16/month.
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