Show HN: gists.sh – Beautiful Viewer for GitHub Gists

I've been using GitHub Gists for years to share code, notes, and docs. They're incredibly useful but look pretty ugly.

I built gists.sh to fix that. Take any gist URL, replace gist.github.com with gists.sh, and get a beautiful version.

It renders each file type properly: Markdown with great typography, GFM alerts, table of contents, etc. Code with Shiki highlighting. JSON and GeoJSON as collapsible trees. CSV/TSV as sortable, searchable tables. YAML as navigable trees. ICS files as calendar event cards. Multi-file gists get tabs with a Pretty/Raw toggle.

You can customize with URL params (?theme=dark, ?noheader, ?nofooter, ?mono) and combine them.

I'm a designer as well, and I've just grown frustrated with gists looking this bad. gist.io [1] tried to fix this back in 2012 but only handled Markdown and has been dead for years.

There's also a raw content API (/api/raw/{id}) with proper Content-Type headers, useful for scripting or piping gist content into other tools.

My favorite use case right now: I often ask coding agents or my OpenClaw to create gists to share notes, code, or reports with me. So I built this to work well with agents too (there's a skill as well), so you can get the pretty gist version directly when you ask for one.

No tracking, no sign-up, no data stored. Secret gists are noindex'd. Open source: https://github.com/linuz90/gists.sh

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4263437