SpaceBadgers

Dev tools

badge generator

SHOW HN2023

199points
49comments
#280of 3,109 in 2023
Top 10%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

7 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.

Idea: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 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

  • Fast, lightweight SVG output with good visual design

    From 3 comments
    • Awesome! I love that it "just works"; I might engage with the CLI for meaningful integrations later, but right off the bat I can create custom SVGs thanks to dynamic URL params:…
      chrisweekly on HN
    • These look really nice! Well done
      zackproser on HN
    • This is fantastic, I really like the idea. Great stuff!!
      bloopernova on HN
  • Useful alternative to shields.io

    From 2 comments
    • Very neat! I was looking for something exactly like this for a library I'm building - will try it out
      nihit-desai on HN
    • Honestly, depends on your use-case. Spacebadgers generates minified and brotli-compressed SVG code instead of images, so we can run on the edge with very little performance…
      splittydev on HN
  • Good documentation

    From 1 comment
    • Very handy tool for sure. I really appreciate the efforts you made on in-line, repo and website documentation.
      lgreiv on HN

Objections

  • Unclear purpose from the landing page and readme

    From 3 comments
    • I have no clue what is going on here or how to access anything.
      assimpleaspossi on HN
    • @splittydev Your entire comment there could/should be copy-pasted as an intro for your project. My curiosity was piqued when i saw this listed here on HN, but it did not fully…
      mxuribe on HN
    • Never really understood the point of these? They started showing up maybe ten years ago, and I must have missed the introductory blog post on them with the rationale. Guess I can…
      mixmastamyk on HN
  • Shields.io already does this

    From 2 comments
  • Mobile layout breaks with larger font sizes

    From 1 comment
    • On mobile if the browser font is larger the content is off the screen without a way to scroll.
      mattl on HN

Requests

  • Binary downloads for the CLI

    From 2 comments
    • This is great, thank you! Any chance you'd consider making binaries available for download? I wanted to try out the CLI but I haven't used rust before, and I got as far as…
      peter_l_downs on HN
    • I managed to fork the repository, set up rust and vscode, and run the CLI. Very cool stuff! I am not a Rust developer, though, so this is a pretty big barrier to entry for me to…
      peter_l_downs on HN
  • Rounded corners

    From 1 comment
    • Great project! Nit: Personally would prefer rounded corners.
      danrl on HN
  • Fetch-based endpoint taking a URL parameter

    From 1 comment
    • Hi ! Nice ! It lacks available style, RGB colorization, PNG64 logos includable ; and if possible ; i'd love one where I can shove in an url as parameter, to let the thing fetch…
      6r17 on HN

Questions

  • How does the service know build status

    From 1 comment
    • How does the badge site know the build status? Params set in readme urls don’t seem like they’d work for that, if they can’t change.
      mixmastamyk on HN
  • How to get started with Rust and Cloudflare Workers

    From 1 comment
    • > So I decided to roll my own, using a Rust library and Cloudflare workers. What is Cloudflare workers Rust support is like? I'd be a a complete Rust noob and looking for a dev…
      xenodium on HN

Alternatives named

  • shields.io

    From 2 comments
    • How is this better than https://shields.io/ ?
      goodpoint on HN
    • Wasn't expecting the "why" section to be at the bottom, since that's where I'm used to seeing license and contribution info. Might be worth linking to that at the top of your…
      andrew_ on HN
  • badgen.net

    From 1 comment
    • You're right, I should've moved that up a bit. Shields.io definitely has its merits, they've got a huge collection of supported badges. Badgen.net was created because shields.io…
      splittydev on HN

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