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Codebase navigation maps

Generate visual maps of complex codebases to help developers understand architecture and dependencies. Make onboarding and refactoring easier.

Why now

As systems grow more complex, developers waste time mentally mapping code.

Who for
Software development teams
Business model
Team-based SaaS
Effort
A few months

Developers spend days or weeks understanding unfamiliar codebases, slowing down work.

Build a tool that analyzes repos to create interactive dependency graphs and architecture diagrams.

Engineering managers would pay to reduce onboarding time and knowledge silos.

Start with basic static analysis for popular languages, then add dynamic tracing.

Risk: IDE plugins may eventually offer similar functionality natively.

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Codebase navigation maps — Ideas