Snibox
Dev tools
snippets manager
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
4 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 1 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.30.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Well done, good tags and organization
From 1 comment
Really well done, I like the tags and organization. Here's a low-tech alternative for .bashrc: ``` snipc() { local fpath=$HOME/workspace/snippets.c if [ "$1" == "vim" ]; then…
lwerdna on HN
Good to see a self-hosted alternative in the space
From 2 comments
Nice work. Happy to see a competitor in the space. For a fully-managed option with desktop clients and integrations with VSCode, Atom and Sublime, check out Cacher:…
jookyboi on HNI really like this and have been looking for something like Snibox for quite some time. Thanks for sharing!
Odenwaelder on HN
Objections
Requires a full Rails backend, hard to set up outside Docker
From 1 comment
Great to see stuff like this built but having an app this simple require a full RoR backend seems overkill - either I'm stuck running it in Docker (which isn't too bad) or…
vorpalhex on HN
Self-hosted apps risk abandonment without maintenance
From 1 comment
Looks good! Unfortunately the problem with the self-hosted apps is lack of maintenance, so after a couple of years, when the author doesn't push any updates to it you will be…
vasilakisfil on HN
Requests
Use $EDITOR environment variable for editor choice
From 1 comment
Try using `$EDITOR` instead of an argument as that's a more standard env variable to specify preferred editor!
jamietanna on HN
Alternatives named
Cacher (managed snippets service with desktop clients and editor integrations)
From 1 comment
Nice work. Happy to see a competitor in the space. For a fully-managed option with desktop clients and integrations with VSCode, Atom and Sublime, check out Cacher:…
jookyboi on HN
Plain HTML files or a self-hosted Gitea snippets repository
From 2 comments
I always seem to run into the "will I maintain it by installing upgrades" question before that one. :-) One exception was the case of a certain static website generator which the…
themodelplumber on HNIt's not actually as bad as it looks as long as you're disciplined in not trying to run every new shiny services that you discover. Instead, what I do personally is to try to…
pwnna on HN