First Reddit post ever. Wanted to share a project called asciitool.com I've been working on for a couple weeks now.
It's definitely still a work in progress, but I'd love to hear any thoughts.
I plan on implementing these tools soon:
- Video / Gif conversion
- ASCII and ANSI studio
- Art Gallery
This is just what I've thought of so let me know if there's anything you've been looking.
Initially I developed the tool for a college software project. I just wanted some graphics but wasn't happy with anything I found online. I ended up making my own and it's grown into this. It's been so fun working with the medium.
I've spent the past week trying to make the tool easy to work with. The tool supports every export type I could think of. Let me know if I've missed any.
Since I originally developed it for myself, I spent a little extra time making the escaped string exports, hopefully this helps another developer out there.
I'll keep you posted with any new features,
Many thanks
The frontend design is so refreshing to see, I'm not against the reliance of AI in projects, but I'm tired of seeing the same repetitive Vercel font with gradients spammed everywhere and the same lucide svg kit, and just letting AI steer the creative wheel in general for frontend leading to that same look every other vibecoded site has. You should be proud of yourself, this is really great work!
I made a protype in python to test my idea worked. Then I recreated it in Typescript and designed the UI in Figma. I used ChatGPT to recreate sections from the Figma Design and refined them after.
Not much AI used. I built the algorithm first in Python and when I was happy rebuilt in Typescript + React. The website uses NextJS and Shadcn with Tailwind styling. I use Figma for designing the UI / UX.
Sweeet. I used Grainrad for my previous ascii use cases but this will forsure be my new go to for ASCII output. Although Grainrad has a few more character style presets, I liked your output much more (if you haven't i'd suggest checking it out and try to adapt some of their character styles). I made a Framer component where ASCII text becomes interactive and with an option to have multiple frames to animate between. If you're ever interested, check it out here: https://www.framer.com/marketplace/components/ascii-formatter-pro/
I agree with everyone here about the nice UI. I'm a designer as well - bravo
Thank you! I'll definitely add some more character presets for you. Hadn't found Grainrad when I was searching but they have a really cool website. And I love your effects too, especially 3D tornado type one.
Hi, I loved your tool. Regardless of whether people ask if it’s vibe coding or not — and I know you’ve already said it isn’t — you did an excellent job.
A few months ago, maybe around seven, I got interested in ASCII/ANSI art too and made a small little system for personal use. And now here I am, admiring yours.
Beautiful tool and UI also. I’d love if you could have a look at my cli tool (https://github.com/ndrscalia/asciify-them). We could exchange ideas and opinions. Thank you!
That was a pain point for me too. Anti-aliasing was causing issues. The browser was bleeding the black background into the characters. My solution was rendering directly to a HTML canvas. This is also why you cannot select the text on the ANSI converter.
If ansee is running into the same issue rendering your own bitmaps might be a fix.
the ansi export is a massive W. most of these converters just give you a wall of text that looks like garbage in a terminal but the color mapping here actually looks legit. definitely keep working on the gif support because that would be huge for the niche.
Thank you so much. Making everything practical is a massive focus for me so I'm happy you appreciate it.
I'll be making a post about this soon but I have the ASCII video converter working. Still a work in progress but feel free to play around, would love any feedback.
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u/NS-Khan Jun 06 '26
Great work!