Chinilla
Design systems, simulate them and watch where they break
124 followers
Design systems, simulate them and watch where they break
124 followers
Like a flight simulator for systems. Drag components, wire them together, hit play, and watch real traffic flow through your system. See queues fill up, databases choke, and bottlenecks form in real time. Scrub a timeline to inspect any moment. Fix what breaks, run it again. That's how you go from knowing patterns to understanding systems. Export to PNG, Mermaid, or Python for your docs and repos. 7 blocks, 12 behaviors, AI that turns code or prompts into live diagrams. Free in your browser.
Products used by Chinilla
Explore the tech stack and tools that power Chinilla. See what products Chinilla uses for development, design, marketing, analytics, and more.
Productivity 1
Productivity 1
FocuSeeAuto Turn Screen Recordings into Stunning Product Videos.
4.6 (37 reviews)
Auto zoom-in on clicks and keystrokes made my demo videos look professional without any manual editing. Recorded walkthroughs of Chinilla, FocuSee handled the zooms, transitions, and cursor highlights automatically. Clean output, low learning curve. Just record, edit few knobs, and export.
LLMs 1
LLMs 1
GrokThe world’s smartest AI (according to Elon)
4.6 (13 reviews)
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ChatGPT by OpenAI
Claude by AnthropicBest cost-to-quality ratio for structured JSON generation. Chinilla needs every AI response in strict JSON (components, connections, behaviors) and Grok handles that reliably at a fraction of the cost per token. When you're burning hundreds of AI calls per user session on system design, code mapping, and simulation analysis, the pricing difference adds up fast.
Engineering & Development 5
Engineering & Development 5
AstroThe web framework that scales with you.
5.0 (50 reviews)
Astro's island architecture let me ship a heavy React canvas app with near-zero JS on static pages. SSR + client:only on the interactive components meant fast loads without sacrificing the real-time simulation features. Easiest framework I've used for mixing static marketing pages with a full SPA workspace
RenderBuild, deploy, and scale your apps with unparalleled ease
5.0 (68 reviews)
Zero-config deploys from a Dockerfile. Pushed my Rust API and Astro SSR app, Render handled TLS, scaling, and health checks out of the box. No YAML pipelines, no infra babysitting. For a solo dev shipping fast, it's the lowest friction between git push and production.
VS CodeMicrosoft Visual Studio Code lets you build and debug apps
4.9 (231 reviews)
VS Code + Copilot agent mode is how I built Chinilla solo. Plan, try, iterate, rollback, repeat until the architecture was tight. Copilot handled the boilerplate, I handled the judgment calls. Multi-file edits, inline terminal, TypeScript intelligence, and an extensions ecosystem nothing else touches. It's the full workshop, not just an editor.
GitHubHow people build software
5.0 (566 reviews)
It's GitHub. Every repo, every commit, every PR, every deploy hook. Chinilla's entire codebase, CI, and Render auto-deploys run through it. There is no alternative, there is only GitHub.
SupabaseThe open source Firebase alternative
5.0 (755 reviews)
Auth, Postgres, and row level security in one place. Chinilla needed user accounts, project storage, Stripe subscription gating, and per-row access control. Supabase gave me all of that with a real Postgres database underneath, not some proprietary query language. Migrations, RLS policies, and the JS client just work. Went from zero to full auth + data layer in a weekend