Commits.io
Creative
poster generator
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
6 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 5 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Execution: 3 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fun idea and good-looking output
From 3 comments
When I graduate from college I'm going to glob all of the code I've ever written for side projects and all of the code I've done for homeworks together and print it out via this…
gravypod on HNThis is really neat! I uploaded an image of a gopher and it automatically detected the shape and drew it on the code. http://assets.avi.io/screen-shot-2016-11-15-f4w73.png This…
avitzurel on HNThis is great. Here's the poster[0] for the Core Infrastructure Initiative's [1] Best Practices Badge [2]. Zoom out by clicking "-" at the top left. [0]…
dankohn1 on HN
Smooth ordering process
From 1 comment
Great job - ordering was streamlined and the process was really smooth -- I was expecting the generated image to auto-update when I was making selections, but I can imagine that…
elliottcarlson on HN
Objections
Requires broad GitHub access (repo scope), which people distrust for private repos
From 4 comments
The service looks awesome and I really want to order some posters for my company. However, I can't grant the kind of access that is being asked for to a private company…
kamarg on HNI want to order a poster but I don't want to give so much access to our company's github. It would be nice if there was an alternative route where I can just copy paste a bunch…
Kaotique on HNThis is absolutely awesome! I would have loved to do it for the company I work for, but...I'm not comfortable with giving access to a private repo. That said, did do it for an…
allengeorge on HN+1 on the security issue. I won't give an "unknown" company access to our private github repo. Besides that: love the idea!
donmb on HN
Price is high
From 1 comment
neat idea 50$ though? Ill just implement it myself and print it myself. The price tag is a bit high
ybrah on HN
Requests
Standalone tool or paste-in option for code extraction
From 2 comments
Suggestion: Write a standalone tool that does the code extraction step, so someone can run it on their private repository (or checked-out code) and generate the data dump you…
gregmac on HNI want to order a poster but I don't want to give so much access to our company's github. It would be nice if there was an alternative route where I can just copy paste a bunch…
Kaotique on HN
Cheaper download option or products like shirts and wallpapers
From 1 comment
Would love a cheaper "download" option. Would be cool to use this on a shirt or mug or maybe a wallpaper.
cvburgess on HN
File include/exclude filter such as regex
From 1 comment
Enhancement idea: RegExp field to blacklist/whitelist files in the repo (I tried to do this with my PhD thesis but the central part of the image is the boring .bib file). Still,…
JorgeGT on HN
Questions
How the image-to-code detection works
From 2 comments
This is really neat! I uploaded an image of a gopher and it automatically detected the shape and drew it on the code. http://assets.avi.io/screen-shot-2016-11-15-f4w73.png This…
avitzurel on HNIt is not so simple. The characters are not the same colour as in the image. Look at the eyes and the nose for example. It seems to be doing a more advanced kind of image feature…
nicky0 on HN
Whether revenue is disclosed
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. Would be interesting to know how much revenue you are making so far.
tymm on HN
Alternatives named
Litographs
From 1 comment
Very similar to Litographs - https://www.litographs.com/ I expect they developed some algorithm to color/format lines correctly per some image in this case, so a little more…
knowaveragejoe on HN