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Dracula is a great example of a small "startup" built by a solo developer. It's microfounder Zeno is making around $8,000 per month with it: https://microfounder.com/startups/dracula
Hey everyone, Dracula creator here! Feel free to ask me anything, I'll try to respond every single comment.
Love the philosophy behind the theme.
How hard do you think it'd be to automate theme previewing & distribution? What would the challenges be? Why is this problem not solved yet?
I'm no designer, but in my understanding a theme is a set of colors that's the result of a research on contrasts and aesthetics (I love how pedagogic Ethan is on its Solarized website: https://ethanschoonover.com/solarized )
By theme distribution, I mean making the theme available for a set of platforms and applications, as it is the case for Dracula, to tackle to problem of context-switching as you neatly describe it. Wouldn't it be theorically possible for a tool to generate themes for all the apps / platforms based on a standard theme description? (Imagine the theme-generator descriptor slowly becoming an actual standard adopted by apps & websites...)
By theme previewing, I mean generating (svg-based or sth?) previews of what every target app / platform looks like with that theme, to make testing easier for designers. It must be expensive to test so many themes, so previewing would be key for this tool. The accuracy of previews might be somehow tested by the test suite by screenshoting the themes in VMs.
Congrats on the nice work!
Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...
You inspired me a lot and I used Dracula as the main theme of " Codes Highlight " which helps developers to Highlight Codes in Google Slides or Documents.
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Cool idea of making it available across so many different applications, but I wish it was aesthetically pleasing. It just doesn't do it for me...
Nord also has ports for some applications (Emacs, Guake and Tmux are those I care about). Unfortunately, not for all daily apps yet. https://www.nordtheme.com/ports
bite taking -> note taking sry :)
There's no way Dracula is not copyrighted. What next, StarWars theme?
I actually registered a trademark for Dracula. https://twitter.com/zenorocha/status/1407342343963951105
So the future of expiring trademarks and copyrights is people rushing in to re-register a trademark under their name? What a bleak thing.
There's no way Dracula is not copyrighted. What next, StarWars theme?
1897... copyright holders have really done a number on you.
But, sure, I guess Dracula is wide open for re-registration in a whole bunch of sectors.
I like Gotham theme more.