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25k uses for the diagram tool on the GPT Store

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Twenty-five thousand uses, and a handoff · 1:22 · AI-written script, synthetic voices

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Ava: Twenty-five thousand uses on the GPT Store. For a tool that started because someone was tired of dragging boxes.

Andrew: Dragging boxes? That's a very specific annoyance.

Ava: It is. At school, UML is how people share an idea. And Antoine built this diagram tool so he'd stop dragging boxes and arrows around in Lucidchart.

Andrew: So you describe the diagram in chat and it draws it.

Ava: That's the picture on the page: from a chat prompt to editable PlantUML, generated through M C P in the conversation.

Andrew: Editable is the key word, I guess. You're not stuck with an image.

Ava: Right, you get PlantUML you can keep tweaking. The tool reached twenty-five thousand uses on the GPT Store, which is the headline of the post.

Andrew: What's next for it?

Ava: Here's the interesting part. Antoine says he'd like someone else to carry the app forward, and he's glad to pass on what he learned building it.

Andrew: So it's an open invitation.

Ava: More or less. The repository is called D two C OpenAI Plugin, and the page links both the repo and an earlier write-up of the plugin.

Andrew: Short post, but a clear ask.

Ava: Yes. Build a tool to scratch your own itch, watch twenty-five thousand uses pile up, then look for the next maintainer.

Andrew: The written page has the chat screenshot and links to the project note.

25k uses for the diagram tool on the GPT Store

The diagram tool reached 25k uses on the GPT Store. At school, UML is how we share an idea, and I built the tool so I would stop dragging boxes and arrows in Lucidchart.

UML diagram generated via MCP in chat

From chat prompt to editable PlantUML.

I would like someone else to carry the app forward, and I am glad to pass on what I learned. The public write-up of that plugin is D2C OpenAI plugin. The repository is D2COpenAIPlugin[1].

Also see the project note: D2COpenAIPlugin.

Source: LinkedIn activity[2].

References

  1. antoinebou12. (). D2COpenAIPlugin. [Software repository] github.com.
  2. LinkedIn activity. (). [LinkedIn post] www.linkedin.com.

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