I built an AI tool for scientific mechanism figures (so I can stop drawing schemes in PowerPoint)

Hey r/SideProject 👋 I kept seeing beautiful mechanism / pathway figures in papers and slides, while my own workflow was still “boxes and arrows in PowerPoint.” I tried the usual stack (Illustrator, draw.io, BioRender-style tools), but for early drafts of scientific schemes I wanted something faster: describe the mechanism → get a figure I can iterate on. So I built MechFig: https://mechfig.com What it does - Text → scientific mechanism-style figures (pathways, process schemes, paper/P