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I created a syntax highlighting API earlier this year with some of the same features: https://torchlight.dev . I've got a handful of paying users and a few hundred free. I'm happy to see syntax highlighting being pushed forward! I'll definitely be following along, it's beautiful stuff.
lol, people paying money for this?
As a daily user of Markdown, I was never aware of MDX. Your post helped me understand what it is :) I also like your idea of monetizing by "minimum" sponsors. How do you deal with people not wanting to sponsor because they don't want a monthly commitment but are willing to spend a fixed one-time sponsorship? Also, what tooling do you use to take care of the sponsorships?
Some of the sponsors are fixed one-time (or two-times) sponsorships. I add them manually if the contribution is considerable.
The marketing on the homepage needs an overhaul. Took me a really long time to understand the product! The automatic code changing at the top was super confusing. Clicking on the demos didn't work. A lot of the demos had locks on them (???), which is weird -- the demos help me understand the product, why would they be locked? More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them…
> More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them worked! So why was the lock still there?
I didn't understand this part. Are you seeing locks on the first three demos?
Hi! I'm looking for feedback and ideas before making this production-ready. You can see an early ancestor of this project on this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536789 from two years ago (which had great feedback!). If you want to try it, beware that current docs are minimal. If you have questions or feedback GitHub Discussions is the best place to post them. Thanks!
The product looks interesting, I'm bookmarking the site to go checkout on desktop. On mobile (Chrome on Android) the site is super confusing and has a "hotel California"-vibe: "you can enter but never leave". Pressing the back button multiple times didn't work - I had to close the site.
Is MDX going to be the only way to use it? I prefer authoring content with WYSIWYG tools (block editors and so on), so would love to be able to use this kind of thing with those.
Hi! I'm looking for feedback and ideas before making this production-ready. You can see an early ancestor of this project on this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21536789 from two years ago (which had great feedback!). If you want to try it, beware that current docs are minimal. If you have questions or feedback GitHub Discussions is the best place to post them. Thanks!
The marketing on the homepage needs an overhaul. Took me a really long time to understand the product! The automatic code changing at the top was super confusing. Clicking on the demos didn't work. A lot of the demos had locks on them (???), which is weird -- the demos help me understand the product, why would they be locked? More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them…
Thanks for the feedback. > More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them worked! So why was the lock still there? I didn't understand this part. Are you seeing locks on the first three demos?
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Thanks for the feedback. > More confusing, a lot of the locked demos had been unlocked by sponsors, so clicking on them worked! So why was the lock still there? I didn't understand this part. Are you seeing locks on the first three demos?
For example, there's a lock on the Annotations demo. This makes me think it's unavailable. But clicking on it shows both the code and the output! That's because the demo has been unlocked since 5 people have sponsored it. If it's been unlocked, why is there a lock icon?
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The product looks interesting, I'm bookmarking the site to go checkout on desktop. On mobile (Chrome on Android) the site is super confusing and has a "hotel California"-vibe: "you can enter but never leave". Pressing the back button multiple times didn't work - I had to close the site.
Thanks. I couldn't reproduce the "Hotel California" bug, also Chrome on Android. Let me know if you have an idea of what could be the issue.
Tried reproducing it, but no go.
Thanks for checking.
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For example, there's a lock on the Annotations demo. This makes me think it's unavailable. But clicking on it shows both the code and the output! That's because the demo has been unlocked since 5 people have sponsored it. If it's been unlocked, why is there a lock icon?
Strange, I don't see the lock on the Annotations demo.