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pplonski86
Great website! Congrats.

1. Any chance to make it open-source?

2. Is there an option to build animation of how code is written? Export code animation as GIF?

Idered
2. Nope, I have it on my roadmap but far far away
krm01
Nice job. A couple of UX insights for you to think about:

- Perhaps introduce a bit more spacing between the left-side menu items; it currently feels a tad congested.

- A strategy to consider: identify the most frequently utilized features and present them prominently by default. Many of the nuanced configurations might be better suited behind a collapsible panel. Striking the right equilibrium between primary functionalities for the majority and advanced settings for a minority can significantly enhance the user interface, leading to a more streamlined experience.

tiny tweaks can sometimes make the product 10X faster to use and increase your overall retention. hope it's helpful!

rane
What's the use case for this?
hbcondo714
I just used this for my repo's readme:

https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-api

I originally used the image editor Pinta[1] to depict the JSON response from my API but Chalk.ist was much easier!

Commit diff: https://github.com/hbcondo/revenut-app/commit/740f907d42e189...

[1] https://www.pinta-project.com

rane
Cool. Personally, I'd favor text-based examples so that the user may easily run them on their own.
bravetraveler
Ditto

For those unaware, on GitHub you can get highlighting by giving the language at the start of the code block. For example:

    ```yaml
    ---
    - hosts: all
      vars:
        idk: {}
    ```
matthewtse
Reminds me of https://xnapper.com/, except for code.

I imagine some people might tweet snippets of code, and this makes the snippet look much more visually appealing.

LorenDB
A few questions:

- Some of us are loath to promote macOS, and that includes using it in decorational elements. Any chance that you'll add other window decoration styles?

- There's not a lot of languages listed; I wasn't able to find D (which didn't surprise me) or C++ (which did surprise me). I don't know what you're using now for syntax highlighting, but something like prismjs.com could easily add dozens of languages to your supported list.

I do like the looks of this project; keep it up!