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by apunic 4147 days ago
Nice idea but not sure about the execution, the generated poster looks just like minified code. Something is missing...
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My initial reaction was "oh is that all". I mean don't get me wrong, the way the site works is nice, but I was really expecting it to move the code around such that the whitespace formed a picture, or have all the lines of code in random text sizes, or allow you to prioritise different sections so that some were highlighted or something like that.

As it stands it's not really something I want on my wall.

This reminds me of Litographs, a company that puts full text of books in poster form. While the concept works fine for prose it doesn't translate well for code.
Same. I was expecting something more like Perl's good old "Acme::EyeDrops", which obfuscates your code, then pours it into an arbitrary ASCII art shape. That's a lot more work than just removing whitespace and using characters as pixels, but this guy is charging money after all.
Really like the idea and just had this thought: why not just present the code in color, normally indented (so not like minified) and in your favorite theme (such as Solarized Dark) in a long portrait format poster, then put some glossy finish on it and I'd buy instantly.
Not commits guy, just playing around with it. Customize it and add a logo

Not sure if this is public or not but for example Wordpress git repo with their logo

https://commits.io/builds/115b510aca7

http://i.imgur.com/OzzW4ZV.png [Just in case it's not accessible, screenshot fully zoomed out]

http://i.imgur.com/Zi37xZF.png [Zoomed in on the whiter parts of the logo]