QuickChart
Data
chart image api
SHOW HN2019
204points
35comments
#187of 2,195 in 2019
Top 9%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What people liked
Useful replacement for Google Image Charts
From 3 comments
TIL that Google Charts is shutting down. My first thought after seeing this was "how is this different than Google Charts?". Then I got to the bottom about GC shutting down. I…
jedberg on HNThis is so cool. I just tested using it with the IMAGE formula in Google Sheets and it works really well: ``` =IMAGE("https://quickchart.io/chart?c=" &…
jkaptur on HNI never thought of using any service to generate a chart and this looks like it may come in handy in the future for me. Glad that it is open source so people can self host it.
max23_ on HN
Open source so it can be self-hosted
From 2 comments
I never thought of using any service to generate a chart and this looks like it may come in handy in the future for me. Glad that it is open source so people can self host it.
max23_ on HNThat's a neat idea and nice of you to have made it open source, since the quickchart.io site seems to be down at the moment.
M4v3R on HN
Flexible configuration
From 1 comment
Looks great. There have been a few projects like this that I’ve seen but yours has a good amount of flexibility. Do you intend to monetize this somehow? I imagine that throwing a…
arielm on HN
Objections
Should charge for hosting to keep the service running
From 3 comments
Looks great :-) You should charge for it. Maybe even in the interest of your users, to keep the service alive. You could leave it open source so people can self-host, or use your…
mherrmann on HNagreed. 100%
masukomi on HNLooks great. There have been a few projects like this that I’ve seen but yours has a good amount of flexibility. Do you intend to monetize this somehow? I imagine that throwing a…
arielm on HN
Long URLs hit browser and proxy length limits
From 3 comments
Great stuff and free :) question - you don't need to urlencode the paramteres in the URL? how so? Further - isnt that limited to 1024 chars per URI specs ?
joering2 on HNIt seems like you would need to encode the parameter value; and in the same way as anything else. There isn't a limit of URI length per the relevant 'specs'. There are generally…
aeorgnoieang on HN... and proxies
duncans on HN
Requests
Add a size parameter for retina displays
From 1 comment
It looks like the charts default to 500x300. It would be nice to be able to pass a parameter specifying the size of the image returned. Then I could set the width of the <img/>…
nsedlet on HN
Offer SVG output
From 1 comment
Or generate an svg version of the chart!
chii on HN
Compress chart data in the URL
From 1 comment
Could also add gzip/deflate/base64 of the query parameter. For many JSON payloads the compression ratio can be 10:1. If it’s all happening client side then the processing cost is…
koolba on HN
Questions
Will you monetize given the hosting cost of many requests?
From 1 comment
Looks great. There have been a few projects like this that I’ve seen but yours has a good amount of flexibility. Do you intend to monetize this somehow? I imagine that throwing a…
arielm on HN
How much data can be sent?
From 1 comment
Neat Stuff! What is the max data that I can send it?
masha_sb on HN
Alternatives named
ChartURL
From 2 comments
Nice! I built the following a year or two ago and it's currently running on AWS Lambda. It uses Highcharts to generate charts. https://api.restcharts.com/…
whatl3y on HNHow do you compare to ChartURL (https://charturl.com)?
FabioFleitas on HN
Image-Charts
From 1 comment
https://www.image-charts.com is a drop-in replacement for Google Image Charts.
huntermeyer on HN
Vega / Vega-Lite
From 1 comment
I’d recommend taking a look at Vega https://vega.github.io/vega/ or its sibling Vega-lite. It exposes all of its configuration via declarative JSON. I could see it working well…
seanlaff on HN
Chartd
From 1 comment
Great app! Here's a similar tool that I've seen, but haven't used: http://chartd.co
paulrosenzweig on HN