# Nogic

11 Hacker News commenters recommended Nogic and 9 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as a graph view that shows how a codebase fits together, with people calling it needed and useful. Common caveats: slow on mid-sized projects and closed source.

## Why people recommend it

- Useful for understanding codebase structure (4 comments): "Super cool! I've thought of literally this so many times." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613611)) "From your first page, this looks cool and needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608719)) "This is incredibly needed!!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611437))
- Looks cool and better than alternatives (3 comments): "Super cool! I've thought of literally this so many times." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46613611)) "From your first page, this looks cool and needed." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608719)) "Yours looks better than any of them already!" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609930))

## What people warn about

- Closed source, so some skip it (4 comments): "until it's open-sourced, it'll be a nope for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46672229)) "not open sourcing it is a mistake" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609548)) "will always skip closed source editor extensions" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46610684))
- Slow on medium-sized codebases (2 comments): "it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46611527)) "it's very slow on a not too complex codebase" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46609613))
- Broken repository links (2 comments): "All the GitHub links on your extension page are borked (including issues)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608620)) "the repository links are broken and this is ARR licensed" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608906))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Codemaps](https://hackerapproved.com/p/codemaps.md): 13 recommend

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Nogic", https://hackerapproved.com/p/nogic/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).