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

by thepythonguy • 11 years ago

16 13 11 years 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• 11 years ago

what made you to create this app? i haven't found any use case for myself yet so i'm curious.

thepythonguy4• 11 years 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• 11 years 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• 11 years 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.

thepythonguy4• 11 years 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• 11 years ago

Seems to be down right now.

thepythonguy4• 11 years ago

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

zamalek• 11 years ago

Nice concept.

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

irth2• 11 years ago

Reminds me of http://instacod.es/

simi_• 11 years ago

It's a really cool front-end experiment, but I fail to grasp its usefulness.

http://instacod.es/101573

irth2• 11 years ago

Instacodes was made as a joke I think. It's like posting food photos on instagram, but for programmers.

stuaxo• 11 years ago

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

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

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