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Open Source Database Designs
✓ verifiedFreemium
Online database-design tool with sample schemas and an AI generator to explore, modify or build database structures visually.
27K visits/mo
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Brainboard
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.
17K visits/mo
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Codia AI
✓ verifiedFreemium
Converts screenshots, PDFs, and slides into editable Figma, PowerPoint, or Canva designs and turns Figma layouts into code.
236K visits/mo1.6K saves
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (unlimited architectures and code generation)
Pro: $99/user/mo (Git, CI/CD, RBAC, remote backend)
Free trial available
No public pricing
Core features
- ✦Library of sample database designs
- ✦Visual database designer / diagram tool
- ✦AI database generator
- ✦Modify and optimize existing schemas
- ✦SQL script export
- ✦Dialect converters (MySQL/PostgreSQL/MSSQL)
- ✦Visual multi-cloud architecture designer
- ✦Instant Terraform/OpenTofu code generation
- ✦Drift detection and remediation
- ✦Embedded visual CI/CD engine
- ✦GitOps workflow and RBAC
- ✦AI infrastructure generation from prompts
- ✦Screenshot-to-editable-design conversion
- ✦NoteSlide: PDF and image slides to editable PowerPoint or Keynote
- ✦Figma-to-code generation
- ✦Image-to-vector/SVG and PSD/web-to-Figma import
- ✦Visual Struct API for developers
- ✦Codia AI Vision layout and typography reconstruction
Use cases
- →Finding a starting schema for a project
- →Designing a database visually
- →Generating a schema with AI
- →Converting between SQL dialects
- →Designing and deploying cloud infrastructure visually
- →Migrating to Infrastructure as Code
- →Standardizing Terraform modules and naming
- →Detecting drift between design and live cloud
- →Rebuild UI screenshots into editable Figma layers
- →Turn NotebookLM PDFs into editable decks
- →Convert images and posters into reusable design assets
- →Move designs between Figma and Canva
- →Extract layout structure via API
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