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Ray.so - Create beautiful images of your code

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Turn your code in to beautifully images. Choose from a range of syntax colors, hide or show the background, and toggle between a dark and light window. Use keyboard shortcuts to speed up your process.
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Nichlas W. Andersen
Maker
Hey Product Hunt ๐Ÿ‘‹ I'm Nichlas from the Raycast team. We've been working on Ray.so to help you create beautiful images of your code, shareable with the world! Ray.so started out as a hackday project, which has now developed in to a tool we hope many of you will use. Choose from the syntax theme options; toggle between dark and light mode; choose whether to have a background or not; select the padding that works for you; save and share. We'd love to get your feedback and suggestions for what else we could do to make Ray.so even better for you. Happy to answer any questions! ๐Ÿ˜
Isaac Moore
@nichlaswa Looks awesome! Would love to have a "Copy to clipboard" button as well as a "Download" button (for pasting to Slack, etc.).
Nichlas W. Andersen
Maker
@iamramsey Thanks Isaac! Great idea, we will be adding more export options soon, and this would be a nice addition :)
Alex Martin
@nichlaswa Would you consider an aspect ratio option? Sharing 16/9 images on Twitter lets us avoid the infamous crop ๐Ÿ™‚
Matt Litherland
@nichlaswa it's awesome!
Anjali Chauhan
@nichlaswa hey how can I add copy button kinda thing which on clicked, copies the whole snippet?
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
Hey PH folks, thanks @mwseibel for the hunt and it's great to be back. You can grab a script command to create images of the code you have in your clipboard from here: https://git.io/JtMZX
Daryll Wong
@thomaspaulmann Looks amazing!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@daryllman Thanks a lot! We wanted to make it look stunning to enjoy using it.
Rahul Nair
@mwseibel @thomaspaulmann Great job folks. This is sound interesting. Keep up the good work.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@samish not right now. Itโ€˜s just a URL that opens the tool preconfigured. Later we might introduce some API to download images. No plans yet.
Isn't this just a clone of Carbon?
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@casperstr We wanted to make it easy to get a good looking image of your code and settled on fewer options with curated colors.
Stephan Meijer
@casperstr @thomaspaulmann Sounds great! Something I've been missing on carbon, is image size presets. When sharing code pics on twitter, it's hoping for the best that the cropped result looks nice. Size presets could improve that experience.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@casperstr @smeijer Oh that is a brilliant suggestion! Gonna consider it when we add the share on Twitter feature.
Nicole Ogloza
@casperstr I like carbon and have used it a bit, but ray.so is cleaner to me!!! What do you like about Carbon, instead of this?!!?
Mohammed Imthathullah
Simple and clean. The keyboard shortcuts make it so easy.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@imthath_m Access everything with keyboard shortcuts, the Raycast way :-)
ุœalistair
Looks incredible!๐Ÿ˜
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@aabbccsmith Thanks! Can't wait to see your TypeScript code on twitter :-P
ุœalistair
@thomaspaulmann ๐Ÿ˜‰
Martin Lexow
Looks nice. Would love to see an offline version / native app for macOS.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@martinlexow Not sure about offline but we want to provide an API at some point and integrate it into Raycast.
Giacinto Carlucci
@thomaspaulmann THIS is a good news! I'm giving it a try, looks cool!
Sigurd Seteklev
Looks awesome! Considered building this into a react element to get beautiful embedded code snippets in any app? ;)
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@kitemaker Cool idea! We had iFrames in mind but React components are maybe the modern way of embedding something.
Nicole Ogloza
@kitemaker @thomaspaulmann HIGHLY suggest react.
jackson rodriguez
This is super cool! I was thinking about working on something similar but for marketers to be able to showcase their work. Great inspiration here.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jackramento_ Cool idea! What do marketers shares mostly? Quotes? Diagrams?
jackson rodriguez
@thomaspaulmann I have a couple ideas. I followed you on Twitter! Maybe we can connect there and brainstorm something based on your experience with Raycast and Ray? Lmk!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jackramento_ Always happy to ping-pong ideas. Feel free to send a DM.
jackson rodriguez
@thomaspaulmann your DM's are closed!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jackramento_ oops, updated
Olivia Harris
Pretty cool! Looks like something we could have used for our PH launch of Reshift today!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@olivianharris Thanks. Great to see Reshift makes code more secure!
Birch Eve
Love it! Such a great product! Canโ€™t wait to get gitlab and Airtable in there!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@pickleai I assume integrating with Raycast ;-) We have a few script for GitLab (https://github.com/raycast/scrip...). Airtable should be doable with an API that we're working on.
Birch Eve
@thomaspaulmann Signed up for developer access and we will make it happen!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@pickleai That's the spirit!
Javier Sanchez Mejorada
Thanks for sharing! This would be very useful when making blogs
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@javier_sanchez_mejorada1 Yeah definitely one of the use cases we had in mind to give your code the extra cool look on your blog!
Arek Der-Sarkissian
Ah it looks so nice ๐Ÿ˜ฎ
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@arek_der_sarkissian awh thanks a lot. We put effort into making it pretty.
Jonathan Laniado
@nichlaswa Ah-ha! I discovered party mode ๐ŸŽ‰ Also, I love what you're doing with Raycast, keep it up!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@nichlaswa @jonathanlaniado Thanks a lot! Haha I think you're the first one who found the party mode. Definitely need to add support to export a GIF :D
Matt
Can I get Solidity as a language option please? How else am I to optimize my NFT absurdity? Great work!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jeremybentham We'll add more languages.
Nicole Ogloza
@jeremybentham @thomaspaulmann when will the solidity language be out? What are the next ones that you will be putting out??!!?
Khuram Malik
I know this got a fair bit of undeserved criticism on HN but I love this product (if we can call it that). I just posted some of my code all over social media this morning and without this I might not have been as tempted to do it.
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@khurammalik It's great to hear that you enjoy the "product" ;-) Super happy that it engages you to share more code.
Giovanni Luperti
Congrats! Looking amazing!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
Artem Konovalov ๐Ÿ’Ž
Looks cool!
Nichlas W. Andersen
Maker
@mattisssa thanks Artem!
Knyckolas Sutherland
Looks amazing!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
Jeff Bargmann
Missed opportunity for inflammatory PR: "Hey Devs. Stop being so UGLY" Looks beautiful. Nice work :)
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@jeff_bargmann haha next time and thanks!
Kaumana Rindlisbacher
Love it. Way to go Raycast team!
Thomas Paul Mann
Maker
@kaumana thanks a lot!