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Comment by atoav | Hacker News Reader

So you made a visualization tool and don't show an example image in the readme?

I am not sure if I should be shocked or impressed, but consider the following question: Would you download a random program of the internet because of the promise of it creating a useful visualization? You probably would if the visualization looked useful to you. But as you can't see it without downloading.. You get my point.

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The amount of times I see this with projects on HN is crazy. The one thing I want to know is how the output looks.

Maybe the OP fixed it after seeing these comments, but I see output examples now in both the 'examples' folder as well as the readme.

I added them after reading these replies, yes. I usually don't add screenshots because I don't like adding images to the git repository (people don't really want to clone that), and I don't want to use an external CDN for uploading my images.

In this project in particular, I understand that it is important.

Not sure if there are any restrictions keeping you from linking directly from the project readme, but perhaps a separate repo can drive: https://pages.github.com/

Some months ago, before a GitHub update, you could just paste an image while editing a Markdown file and it would be uploaded to their CDN. You could use that link even in other files (e.g. Org files in my case). They changed their upload system and this is not the case anymore.

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