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With the help of AI & LLMs I restarted working on some of my older side projects. I updated the code and did a landing page for Printable Mockups (a free, open-source drag-and-drop tool for creating device accurate wireframes and sketchpads that you can export as PDFs, print, and sketch on by hand) https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups I plan to add more features soon.

Nice work! I’ve built something… similar: https://github.com/alexadam/printable-mockups & https://www.printablemockups.com It’s free, open source, no backend needed and you can use it in the browser. I plan to add more widgets and support full page templates, like yours.

Yes, it's inspired by it but I didn't like the fact that all the available options are hidden and I had to search every time I wanted to add something.

With my app, you can organize you favorite gitignores as lists.

I just needed a quick way to write in MD and have 'templates' with parameters to avoid copy/paste/replace, especially when documenting shell commands.

That's why I made https://reactivedoc.com/. You can use it to write interactive documentation in markdown and save it as a simple, self-contained, html+js file.

Now I'm working on v2, with cleaner syntax & more widgets (I want to add an embedded web base terminal to run shell commands), you can see an example here: https://reactivedoc.com/editor/

I'm working on https://reactivedoc.com/ - it's markdown + some custom widgets, and you can export it as a self-contained html file.

I made it to solve my own problems: document commands & scripts and replace parameters with user input values. Soon I will release a new version with simpler syntax.

I needed a way to document my shell scripts (or code snippets) and to quickly replace “parameters”. For example, if you want to download a YT video as mp3, you have to remember this command “youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 <video URL>” . You can use the autocomplete & history in the terminal but you still have to remember parts of the command and replace the old URL with the new one. You can also save it in a text file, and replace <video URL> … too many select/replace/copy/paste ops…

A few months ago I made a good enough solution for my problem https://github.com/alexadam/reactive-doc - it saves ~ 10 minutes/day when I have to run complex devops scripts. And I can quickly share the ‘docs’ because they are just plain html files / or markdown.

Now I just finished the next iteration - better ‘syntax’ for input widgets, runnable @shell commands and a web based terminal https://github.com/alexadam/shell-driver with custom filters and selection actions (useful for me)

Next steps: add more features to the web based terminal -> convert history to scripts, autocomplete with parameters, command palette & context aware menus, multiple terminals (with tabs or panels). I also want to add support for React components in the MD editor.

Time is money and https://reactivedoc.com/ saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation with "parameters". The output is a self-contained html file. Coupled with an external runner, it's a great automation tool for simple tasks.

I'm not targeting printers and I don't want to depend on them. If a user wants to print on demand his notebook, there will be that option (if possible).

Also, I'm not targeting consumers. Since the engine is already opensource, I don't have a problem making the whole app open.

"I would personally pay for is the ability to have my custom designed notebook printed and shipped to me" -> I think the core feature is how easily you can design your custom notebook. There are already p-o-d services and you can just use Photoshop or Word for editing. But they are too complex.

What I was trying to say is that, maybe, some companies would pay for custom widgets that hook to a db and display nice graphs & tables to quickly create business reports. But I don't think those companies care about p-o-d because they already have their own providers.

So far, the business model is: free everything except for the cloud storage (if any) and premium widgets & layouts. I would not add a premium over the p-o-d price since I have no control over the quality and I would offer it as a 'bonus', like an option to link the app to a 3rd party printer of your choice.

Anyway, thanks for the input, it really helped me! If you want to keep in touch, let me know.

Great advice!

The printing quality & shipping will be a problem and I was thinking to offer the print on demand just as a 'secondary' option, not a feature.

Probably it would be more profitable to create custom widgets and designs for companies or exporting the layouts as standalone, mini-apps - something like an UI/app editor (what you see is what you get) - that are also printable :)

Thank you! Unfortunately that mailing list if full of random emails from people who thought they need an account to access the app.

I'm working on an app to create custom notebook layouts by drag-and-drop graphical widgets with the option to print on demand the result: https://notebookeditor.com/

I have a lot of ideas on how to improve it and I think there are many use cases, especially for creating custom educational materials. But I haven't found the product market fit until now and I don't have a clear plan on how to monetise it.

The 'front-end' product is 80% done but there is no 'back-end' yet - I'm still thinking if I should do it as saas or a standalone desktop/mobile app.

If interested, contact me at: alex @ myhnusername .com

PS. some of the images I used on the website are copyrighted and I didn't ask for permission or give credit. Sorry! I'll fix it asap.

I made an extension to save web pages as eBooks: https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook. You can easily modify it to remove the images (or scale them down) and invoke it automatically on each page visit or refresh.

Looks cool! Is there a way to export the mesh & the texture?

Very cool! Are you the author?

I use Gandi for domains & DNS too. I've never had any problems so far but I don't want any surprises... Where do you want to migrate? What is a better alternative?

how can I contact you? My email address is in my profile

On r/listentothis - I made a browser extension that highlights my favorite genres https://github.com/alexadam/ListenToThis-Highlight, but I have to update it because it doesn't work with the new reddit changes

The blurriness is a problem… With the pdf library I’m using (jsPDF) I cannot export the SVG directly so I convert it to an image and then embed the image in the pdf. To solve the problem, I can increase the converted image’s resolution but then the pdf becomes huge (~20 MB, for example). There is a ‘quality’ parameter in the code, maybe I’ll expose it in the UI and you can find an optimum value. I’ll try to find a way to export or ‘write’ the svg data directly in the pdf, I think it’s the best way to do it.

Thanks! The Notes component is on the to-do list

Thanks! The Notes block is the next thing I’ll add to it

r/parametric_design

I had a similar problem and I built this https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook You can add web pages as chapters and it generates an .epub

I plan to add support for styles, more export formats and 'save as audiobook' to: https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook

https://github.com/alexadam/save-as-ebook - Save a web page/selection as an eBook

I don't know how much you can learn from it, but here is a react + three.js project I've done for testing: https://github.com/alexadam/bridges

Added on the to-do list. Thanks!

Thanks! ... You are right, I have a bad habit of not writing proper commit messages when working on my projects (because, usually, nobody reads them besides me :) ).

I've done some (not quite similar) experiments: https://vimeo.com/160730056

I wanted a quick way to edit code and see live results - to make it easier to explore/test new combinations.

http://www.corntab.com/pages/crontab-gui