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by pizza 1778 days ago
I admire the people who work on pet projects like this one and share them with the world despite getting criticism that is just barely constructive. These are merely design issues- not things that stem from it being a terrible idea. It's a good idea that just needs a v2 design, there is no need to go on a diatribe about unrelated events, this was clearly just someone taking an idea they thought could be valuable and sharing it with others in the hopes they might gain value from it also.

I have needed quick visual fingerprints of repos for a very long time, even just a crude outlay of the filesizes was what I needed but this provides even more. I just don't like the tone of this criticism, and nobody would ever do Show HN's ever again if "it's just not a good visualization and no one will ever seriously use this" was the standard for commentary.