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Show HN: A site to post and read code snippets and generate a PNG of the source

16 points by thepythonguy 11y ago

thepythonguy 11y ago
Hey guys! This is a little project I've been working on and I was hoping to get some feedback. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
- tuananh 11y ago
  what made you to create this app? i haven't found any use case for myself yet so i'm curious.
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  - thepythonguy 11y ago
    I made the app because I am always looking for little code snippets such as cases where I need to find regex to extract URLs or Emails, so I figured why not create a site where people can post short little bits like that and make it searchable? So that was the motivation.
- tomatocode 11y ago
  what would be cool as well, if the javascript snippet to export the code would already contain a javascript code editor (like ace or so), then I could throw in my raw code to your website and get a editable code box to embed in my own website.
- fasteo 11y ago
  Nice and useful idea, but you need the snippets to be "live"; for example, enable comments and editing, so that snippets get validated/improved/curated over time. Links to relevant stack overflow questions would be great as well.
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  - thepythonguy 11y ago
    There actually are comments. Making them "live" as you say is actually a really good idea it can be like a "proposed change" kind of thing where a user makes a change and people vote on it to see if it gets changed or not. If a certain amount of people vote for the cahnge then it replaces the old code.
jbrooksuk 11y ago
Seems to be down right now.
- thepythonguy 11y ago
  It doesn't seem to have gone down for me, it's possibly just taking a while to load for whatever reason.
zamalek 11y ago
Nice concept. Feedback: the code boxes are too big in the majority of cases, e.g. http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0 http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0
irth 11y ago
Reminds me of http://instacod.es/ http://instacod.es/
- simi_ 11y ago
  It's a really cool front-end experiment, but I fail to grasp its usefulness. http://instacod.es/101573 http://instacod.es/101573
  - irth 11y ago
    Instacodes was made as a joke I think. It's like posting food photos on instagram, but for programmers.
stuaxo 11y ago
You could probably chuck the sourcecode itself into a text segment of the png.

16 points by thepythonguy 11y ago

Hey guys! This is a little project I've been working on and I was hoping to get some feedback. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

tuananh 11y ago
what made you to create this app? i haven't found any use case for myself yet so i'm curious.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
- thepythonguy 11y ago
  I made the app because I am always looking for little code snippets such as cases where I need to find regex to extract URLs or Emails, so I figured why not create a site where people can post short little bits like that and make it searchable? So that was the motivation.
tomatocode 11y ago
what would be cool as well, if the javascript snippet to export the code would already contain a javascript code editor (like ace or so), then I could throw in my raw code to your website and get a editable code box to embed in my own website.
fasteo 11y ago
Nice and useful idea, but you need the snippets to be "live"; for example, enable comments and editing, so that snippets get validated/improved/curated over time. Links to relevant stack overflow questions would be great as well.
- deleted 11y ago
  [deleted]
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- thepythonguy 11y ago
  There actually are comments. Making them "live" as you say is actually a really good idea it can be like a "proposed change" kind of thing where a user makes a change and people vote on it to see if it gets changed or not. If a certain amount of people vote for the cahnge then it replaces the old code.

jbrooksuk 11y ago

Seems to be down right now.

thepythonguy 11y ago
It doesn't seem to have gone down for me, it's possibly just taking a while to load for whatever reason.

zamalek 11y ago

Nice concept. Feedback: the code boxes are too big in the majority of cases, e.g. http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0 http://blinkofcode.com/5590ed12c57dd447d43e5ad0

irth 11y ago

Reminds me of http://instacod.es/ http://instacod.es/

simi_ 11y ago
It's a really cool front-end experiment, but I fail to grasp its usefulness. http://instacod.es/101573 http://instacod.es/101573
- irth 11y ago
  Instacodes was made as a joke I think. It's like posting food photos on instagram, but for programmers.

stuaxo 11y ago

You could probably chuck the sourcecode itself into a text segment of the png.