Show HN: Ctxt.io – share context of whatever you see with others in seconds
Built this when I was looking for a rich-text pastebin and couldn't really find any around. This works instantly in seconds without any account and prioritizes just giving you a link to share.<p>Ended up being really useful whenever I wanted others to see what I had experienced on personalized websites (e.g. ranked feeds that would look different on different accounts, or change if reloaded e.g. <a href="https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAiPRWFg" rel="nofollow">https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAiPRWFg</a>), interview feedback, or even paywalled content if I just wanted to share a little snippet for fair-use and keep the HTML styles, <a href="https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAACI6FQ" rel="nofollow">https://ctxt.io/2/AAAAACI6FQ</a>. Scroll to the bottom of the page for these examples.<p>The main technical difficulty here was in trying to get all the CSS styles to be as accurate as possible, and the browser extension solves many of these, including proxying requests whenever necessary to bypass some restrictions. The browser extension doesn't request any permissions, and won't inject any content scripts on your page, so as someone who cares about security, is what I wouldn't mind installing personally.<p>One cool thing I've discovered after building it is that it's super useful for web developers to modify the DOM of pages and redo mockups and then use Context to re-share them with others for them to also modify: e.g. <a href="https://ctxt.io/2/AAAA0KGcFA" rel="nofollow">https://ctxt.io/2/AAAA0KGcFA</a><p>Everything is free for now (don't worry about the $ signs), mainly interested in feedback. Thanks in advance!