Introducing Snippet Safe - A social code sharing application!

Hello everyone!

Over the last year or so I have been working on snippetsafe.com - an application that allows you to create, file and search code snippets that you may find useful in the future, and curate a community of likeminded developers.

My reason for building this app was because I was getting fustrated at using GitHub Gists and not really being able to easily keep track of the code I was putting there. It's not easily searchable and to my knowledge you can't categorize your code. So I initially built Snippet Safe for myself but as it grew I decided decided to grow it into a full product others can use.

I use twitter quite extensively to keep up to date in the Ruby on Rails and JavaScript communities and myself and others that I follow share images of their code using carbon.now.sh which is a great tool. However I felt there was room for improvement, not so much on the actual image creation but the community aspect of it. As a result on Snippet Safe you are able to follow others and interact with their snippets (file, like, comment, share and download) in an effort to build a feed of code snippets that you will hopefully find useful. The idea being that if you follow people who are working in the same technologies as you are you will be able to learn from them and hopefully they can also learn from you. I've gained quite a lot of knowledge in thi way on Twitter.

Until now I have been using the app with a couple of friends who have offered to test it but I'd really like to open it up to other developers so that they can have a play with it and see how they get on. I've got to a point with it where I am struggling to thnk of features that would be useful without the input of others that are actually using the application so that's why I'm posting here.

If this sounds like the kind of application you might find useful I'd be very grateful if you would spend some time having a play around with it and providing some feedback about absolutely anything regarding it. If you do sign up feel free to drop me a follow snippetsafe.com/users/lewisyoul - my feed should give you an idea of how I've been using it over the last few months.

Thanks!