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8 pointsjmonegro12 comments

I finished building Codr.cc last night.

Codr is a code snippets sharing website much like pastie or snipt.org, but with a few innovations. First is that it autodetects the language and highlights it accordingly.

The second, killer feature, is that it allows you to create snippets from files on your computer. You can select a file using the file browser, or you can drag and drop it into the site.

The app will read its contents and create a snippet from it - ready to share.

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Now, I'm a college student in need of some quick cash. Recently I sold wrttn.in rather quickly thanks to HN, and I began to wonder if I could make a few hundred extra bucks a month by doing what I love (creating nifty webapps like this one) and selling them at relatively low prices.

Codr was a fun experiment but my intention is to sell it as fast as possible, so if you're interested in buying it, e-mail me at jmonegro@gmail.com or leave a comment below. If it doesn't work I guess I'll keep it and grow it.

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Let me know what you think!

I posted a small python snippet. Highlighted version works fine, but the raw version strips the leading whitespace, which is rather important in this case. (See: http://codr.cc/57F58EAAED)

Would the creator be able to add in a copy function to the highlighted code to remove the line numbers?

The line numbers don't get copied to the clipboard when you copy and paste from the highlighted version.

But when you're highlighting the code to copy, the line numbers get highlighted which doesn't inspire much confidence

What browser are you using? If it helps this behavior is NOT repeatable on windows in FF3.6, IE8, BUT observable in Chrome 9.

I see. I'll work on it. Thanks!

Nice little site. I like the simplicity of it. A couple of points:

- It is not immediately clear to me (FF3.6, Ubuntu) that it is a textarea above the Create Code button on the frontpage.

- Marking the code and then pasting it in Ubuntu gives me all the code on one line (both ctrl-c/ctrl-v and mark/middlebutton).

- The privacy model doesn't seem obvious to me when I'm on the frontpage. Is the stuff I post public, semi-public or private? If the privacy model is public a listing of the latest or most linked code snippets could be an idea.

- I miss a link to the frontpage when I've looked at a code snippet.

Worked as expected. Only thought would be shortening the "shortened" URL? I'm making some assumptions about what you're doing here but having 10 chars, assuming only A-Z, 0-9, (36 possible chars), gives the capacity for an unnecessarily large number of snippets.

Unless I'm half-awake at the moment, a 5 char string still yields more than 60 million possibilities, and shaves 5 chars off the URL for twitter etc.

I think it's more like a hash than a "shortened" URL. Kind of like thingler.com

Yeah I can do that.

When I click "Create Code" I get an error.

Must be because the field is empty. The space there is actually a textarea.

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