[mgzme]

Indeed it is similar to Shadertoy (or any other live GLSL editor like, for example, the live editor from The Book of Shaders ( https://thebookofshaders.com/ - which I really recommend, VERY good source for learning, helped me a lot! ), but I wanted to have a set of more flexible features to fit my personal usage like, for example, using any external images (from imgur or any other website that allows cross-domain access) as sampler2D-uniform texture inputs, or using my own MP3 files to be FFT analysed and produce audio-reactive shaders with more combinations of frequency bands and averages available, the resolution selector, export to GIF, etc. I still have to document and publish all the set of uniforms available and provide an usage guide to make all the features more clear. There's already some incredibly great live GLSL editors around, all of them with their bright features (and the lack of some good ones). My intention was not to produce a clone, but to contribute with a different set of tools to the same purpose.

[cmyr]

This is a slight derail, so apologies, but: I've been just starting to get interested in shaders, and have been spending time reading things on shadertoy and working through BoS. Something I find really annoying about shadertoy is the pretty ubiquitous focus on minimizing code size, which I can understand in the context of demoscene, but which is super annoying when you're trying to read something to understand it.

What I'd love to see is something like an 'annotated shadertoy', which encourages inline documentation and explanation of the various moving parts. If anything like this exists, I'd love to hear about it!

[mgzme]

ShaderToy is a mature and very large community, thus, you can find all types of shaders there. But I can ensure you that there are a lot of users at their platform doing their best to help beginners. FabriceNeyret, for example, comments on lots of shaders, giving optimization tips and making constructive suggestions. Yes, there are some hard to figure shaders there, but there are also very experienced users helping the community. And thanks for the suggestion, I really appreciate it. I'll do my best to make more "documented" shaders to share the little I know with the community.

[ttoinou]

Some shaders author are really good at commenting their code. Shane for example. And top quality shaders on top of that https://www.shadertoy.com/user/Shane

[mgzme]

There are countless insanely talented creators at ShaderToy. Shane, IQ and FabriceNeyret for example. I try to learn from their code as much as I can, but I still don't even scratch the surface of their talent. Those guys creations are an inspiration, and I can only hope to learn a fraction of everything they share with the community.