I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image
Details
- External ID
- 47487167
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I made a tool for converting text snippets to shareable image
- Website domain
- snip2img.com
- Launched
- March 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.491389913899139
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey guys, I needed a way to convert Code, CSV, and Markdown snippets to shareable images so I built this over the weekend. It all runs locally in the browser using a few lines of jQuery. Nothing fancy.Sharing in case someone else might find it useful!
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- convert text to shareable images
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a lightweight client-side browser tool that formats text or code with syntax highlighting and exports DOM elements to images.
Discussion
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Launched 139 days after the earliest competitor.
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