Show HN: Linux on a Poster
linuxonaposter.com
linuxonaposter.com
The poster design was generated by my own little program. Given a set of text with pre-formatted line endings (like you get with source code) and an area to fit it into, it solves for the font size and number of columns to use. (I'm already wondering what else I could do with this. Poetry posters, maybe?)
Ordering/billing is through Gumroad. I hated their widget, and hacked on it until I got a link to a product page that I could use, and styled it to my taste.
Fulfillment is through Printful. They offered the largest poster size out of all the on-demand print services I looked at.
The landing page uses Bootstrap. I'm not sure that I like the picture I used (yes, that's Yours Truly in the photo). I read all these essays saying that it helps sales to have a person on the landing page, and that it helps to have the person looking at the product, but somehow my smile ended up looking vaguely demonic.
Anyway, feedback is very welcome.
Cool product, I'll definitely share it with my dev friends. If I had space on my wall I would buy it.
One suggestion: maybe have a few smaller sizes both for people that don't want to spend $59 and for people like me (that also doesn't want to spend that much) and doesn't have 44" of wall space to spare.
Maybe offer an 18"x18" for $20?
But your smile does indeed look a bit demonic. Maybe take a couple of pics and chose the best one? Might help to have some friend saying something funny or silly while taking phtos, that's a easy way to catch genuine smiles :-)