... After launching Chinilla, I realized something: People understood the idea but they weren t feeling what their system was doing. So I focused on one thing: making system behavior obvious at a glance 1. New visual simulation UX + new sidebar We redesigned the simulation to make every request visible: delivered quick green flash lost red flash filtered purple queues fill orange flash when bottlenecking Instead of reading logs or guessing, you can just watch the system behave . 2. Live team ... ... clearer: design systems simulate behavior fix what breaks This update was mainly about making the product feel right and less like a diagram tool, more like something you can actually use to understand systems. Check out the new updates @ chinilla.com

... everyone who upvoted and left feedback last week (we hit top-20 of the day, still wild). A bunch of you asked for the same things, so we shipped them: 1. GitHub repo live diagram Paste a repo URL, Chinilla maps the architecture and you can simulate it. No more starting from a blank canvas. 2. Live Team Collab Design and review systems with your team in real time. Cursors, comments, the whole thing. Great for interview prep with ... ... benchmark for whether LLMs can design systems that actually survive failure. 30 problems, deterministic scoring, no LLM judge. Frontier models average 66 72/100, and none pass more than 9 of 30. Leaderboard is live. Check it out at chinilla.com

... everyone! First off, thank you for the incredible launch day support. The feedback has been amazing and I'm working hard to make Chinilla the best experience possible. I'd love to hear from anyone who's tried Chinilla