Launching today
VoxToBox
Say what you want, get an interface others can improve
4 followers
Say what you want, get an interface others can improve
4 followers
VoxToBox turns a sentence ("a piano", "a timer for 25-minute blocks") into a working interface in seconds. No account, no code. What makes it different: every creation can be shown with a permanent URL signed with your first name. Anyone with the link can improve it, and their variant keeps a visible lineage ("born from X's creation"). You can adopt the best version back. Git semantics for people who will never know what Git is. Free, 9 languages, built solo in rural France.
Tried making a quick pomodoro timer and the signed URL trick actually came in handy when my coworker tweaked it for me. The lineage view is a really nice touch.
Tried it with "a counter that beeps every 30 seconds" and honestly the lineage thing is kind of brilliant, like watching someone else's tweak show up as a fork you can pull back without ever touching a terminal. Also the no-account friction is so refreshing, just typed and got a link.
the lineage idea is genuinely clever, but honestly it'd help a lot if you could lock down a variant when you adopt it back, otherwise people might keep editing your "best version" and you lose the one you actually wanted to keep