Show HN: My weekend project - Codestagram

I would love this idea, if it was limited to 10-20 lines. The forced conciseness of it would make devs focus on brief concepts and structure, rather than complex methods. It would end up being like Dribble rather than Gist/PasteBin, and be a great place to browse for techniques I hadn't previously encountered. Think about how fun it would be to scan through an Instagram style list of stuff like this:

############~C~#############

  if ((1?1:var)/2) {
      /* it's floating point */
  } else {
      /* it's an integer */
  }

#######~Objective-C~########

  + (NSString *) append:(id) first, ...
  {
      NSString * result = @"";
      id eachArg;
      va_list alist;

      if(first)
      {
          result = [result stringByAppendingString:first];
          va_start(alist, first);
          while (eachArg = va_arg(alist, id)) 
              result = [result stringByAppendingString:eachArg];
          va_end(alist);
      }

      return result;
  }

#########~PHP~##############

  $object = new StdClass;
  $object->foo = 'bar';
  echo json_encode($object);

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I know they aren't the best example, but I would love to be able to scan through a list of small code snippets (by language) that demonstrate concepts. On the plus side, it would be an easier way to show some competence in a language (for future employers) than having to do massive contributions to open source projects (don't have that much free time). The thing that makes or breaks this project is a smallish limit on lines. Without it, you are just another Gist/Pastebin, without the benefits of the wide user base and additional features. I have zero desire to chill at night and scan through a bunch of random 100+ line snippets that I have no context for, but I love goofing around on Stackoverflow, looking at fancy code snippets

Awesome, but I can't delete my comments or posts. D:

Also I think a great purpose for this would be to highlight particular bits of code/changes found in git, even if it is just a part of a gist.

When I saw this post I thought to myself "Code with colour filters applied?" When I clicked through it turns out it is just grey on grey so I can easily see why some wouldn't get it.

Its a funny idea, but I'm not sure its all that useful. Would probably be better if users could customize their profile page as well.

I see it more akin to Dribbble than Instagram. You could also introduce 'rebound' - which is improving/optimizing/add your personal touch to the 'shot' (uploaded image, or code in this case).

I'm actually going to try and redesign this as my case study for this weekend, thanks for sharing!