Nogic
Code visualization tool in Developer tools
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.
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.
20 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 9
- approval share
- 55%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1.2 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Useful for understanding codebase structure
“Super cool! I've thought of literally this so many times.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “From your first page, this looks cool and needed.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “This is incredibly needed!!”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” - Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together”
Looks cool and better than alternatives
“Super cool! I've thought of literally this so many times.”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “From your first page, this looks cool and needed.”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “Yours looks better than any of them already!”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Closed source, so some skip it
“until it's open-sourced, it'll be a nope for me”
Comment from 18 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “not open sourcing it is a mistake”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “will always skip closed source editor extensions”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” - Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together”
Slow on medium-sized codebases
“it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase”
Comment from 14 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “it's very slow on a not too complex codebase”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” Broken repository links
“All the GitHub links on your extension page are borked (including issues)”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together” “the repository links are broken and this is ARR licensed”
Comment from 13 Jan 2026 in “Show HN: Nogic, Turn codebase into a graph to understand how it fits together”
What people recommend instead
The same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Codemaps | 13 | 5 | 72% | 2 | — | — |
| NogicThis page | 11 | 9 | 55% | 1 | — | — |
What people said
19 of the 21 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“until it's open-sourced, it'll be a nope for me”
“it's not displaying any edges”
“Super cool! I've thought of literally this so many times.”
“it is reallllllly slow for our medium sized codebase”
“This is incredibly useful!”
“This is incredibly needed!!”
“will always skip closed source editor extensions”
“Yours looks better than any of them already!”
“it's very slow on a not too complex codebase”
“not open sourcing it is a mistake”
“Only JS, TypeScript, and Python.”
“Standard "find the method declaration" or "used here" do not work in Ruby on Rails.”
“it crashes on a more complex project”
“the repository links are broken and this is ARR licensed”
“Closed source vscode extensions: not for me.”
“From your first page, this looks cool and needed.”
“The illustration gif is way too fast. Hard to understand what is going on.”
“All the GitHub links on your extension page are borked (including issues)”
“The coolest thing is to start summarising clusters for very large codebases”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.