Commits.io – Create a poster from your code

We will be adding private repo support soon, it&#x27;s just the mechanics are very clunky (ssh keys and such). You could however generate a temporary token (until you have purchased the poster, at which time you can delete it). You can enter the repo address on the home page as such: <a href="https://&lt;auth-code&gt;:x-oauth-basic@github.com/user/repo.git" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;&lt;auth-code&gt;:x-oauth-basic@github.com&#x2F;user&#x2F;repo.git</a>

Nice idea but not sure about the execution, the generated poster looks just like minified code. Something is missing...

Pretty cool! Was wondering how it would transform a whitespace sensitive language like Python. The service seems to be slow. But it looks like it would strip out all the indentation leaving it rather meaningless.

This is great.<p>I recently shut down two small firms that I&#x27;ve run for years and years - the opportunity cost of not doing contract work or something else that paid decently was too much to keep at it.<p>...but I loved the code base, as clunky as it was. It had warts, scars, and stretch marks that documented its path through the years. I don&#x27;t miss running the firms, but I do miss the code.<p>I&#x27;ll be buying posters to hang on the wall and remind me of the good times.

Very cool! Does this use Lob[0] for posters (the size selections line up)? I&#x27;ve been wondering about their quality for a few side projects and am interested in any feedback about their quality.<p>[0] <a href="https://lob.com/services/sps/posters/pricing" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lob.com&#x2F;services&#x2F;sps&#x2F;posters&#x2F;pricing</a>

I managed to get something for syncany <a href="https://github.com/syncany/syncany" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;syncany&#x2F;syncany</a>: <a href="https://commits-io.s3.amazonaws.com/71712d74724.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commits-io.s3.amazonaws.com&#x2F;71712d74724.pdf</a>

Looks nice but seems to crash upon clicking the &quot;Do Magic&quot; button. I&#x27;m guessing it might be getting stressed by the traffic from HN.

How many passwords will soon be hanging on the walls of various cubes and conference rooms?

No full resolution examples that I can look at?

Is there some type of estimate of how many character you need to fill up one of these posters? I wouldn&#x27;t mind getting one of a particularly tricky module I wrote as a POC for my presentation at the SAM conference last year but it&#x27;s probably only 300 LOC total.

If anyone wants the linux kernel on their wall : <a href="https://commits.io/builds/88548595a3c" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commits.io&#x2F;builds&#x2F;88548595a3c</a> (or at least a chunk of it)<p>I find this service a bit expensive for something that can be made in 10 minutes with illustrator - maybe if I get fantastic glossy paper, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to mention much about the paper specs.

Awesome idea. Is there are also a similar service in a do-it-yourself way, without having to put your code into the open as that&#x27;s a no-go for companies with private code bases.<p>For example I work for a game development studio and this seems like a cool idea to make some posters of our games, but giving our code base to a company like commit would never be allowed by management.

I think you should let people know you plan on cloning the entire repo. You are currently cloning chromium.git, sorry :)

Server is being hugged to death. Can&#x27;t seem to do anything at the moment. The idea is very cool though I would definitely use this, I&#x27;d perhaps even pay for it. Most Devs are fond of their code because they put work in to it. It&#x27;s a cool idea for a bedroom or living room talking piece.

It looks nice, without a doubt. But I&#x27;d be more inclined to buy a poster that I can look at and remember that particular piece of code that was a pain to write&#x2F;debug[#].<p>The poster can be a good thing to get after shipping a milestone!<p>[#] maybe displayed as a big &quot;snake&quot; with all the code put together

Would be nice if it would exclude comments. My poster seems to be mostly made out of GPL ramble.

Do the repo owners get a cut? :)<p>I tried it on Clojure then imagined how guilty I&#x27;d feel buying it knowing Rich Hickey wouldn&#x27;t get any money but the printers would get lots, hah.

Nice. Also try <a href="https://code.google.com/p/gource/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;gource&#x2F;</a> for visualizing the git history.

It would be nice if you could add Support for IPad. I cannot copy&#x2F;paste the url. As soon as I tap on the url field, I toggle the info text box.

Pointed it at Dolphin Emulator:<p><a href="https://commits.io/builds/e217f8be3dd" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;commits.io&#x2F;builds&#x2F;e217f8be3dd</a><p>Doesn&#x27;t work.

I applaud you not only for this idea, but for keeping the site up because I imagine everyone will be pounding it just as much as me :)

Just a quick heads up, United Kingdom is between Gabon and Grenada.<p>A few other countries seem to be in the wrong place too when ordering.

Sweet! Make sure to allow typing in repository address without the http(s):&#x2F;&#x2F; protocol

Make the code conform to the form of an image that the user uploads, and I&#x27;ll buy a dozen.

This is awesome!<p>I need this printed on t-shirts!

How do you indicate you want the shape overlays, like the Rails logo and such?

Fun stuff, also, is this typo on purpose? &quot;Comming soon&quot;

This is so cool, I need to get a print of that.

for me it just adds all the code in all the files and displays it in a small font.. something wrong in my repo?