A few days ago, DEV·TV ran its first real ad. Until then, every commercial break was a joke:
Off-By-One Pizza 🍕,
Rollback Airlines ✈️,
node_modules Self Storage 📦.
Then leantext took the first real slot.
Today there's a second one. 🎉
🎨 Meet living-canvas
living-canvas is a Claude skill that turns any repo, doc or idea into an animated README banner. Point it at a GitHub URL and it reads the project, finds the one idea at its heart, and turns it into motion: one self-contained SVG, no JavaScript, usually under 10 KB. ✨
It's built for the top of a README, where a stranger decides in two seconds whether to keep reading. Instead of a generic gradient, the banner tells the project's actual story, left to right: the problem, what the project does, and the result.
To try it in Claude Code:
git clone https://github.com/shouvik12/living-canvas ~/.claude/skills/living-canvas
Then ask for /living-canvas https://github.com/you/your-repo. 🚀
📣 Two ads from the maker. The rest are yours.
Every TV network runs promos for its own shows, and DEV·TV has now run two. That's enough of me. 😄
The next ad slots are open to the community, for free. 🙌
If you've built a developer tool, a library, an app or a side project, it can run in DEV·TV's commercial breaks just like leantext and living-canvas do: a full-screen ad card with your name, a one-line pitch, your colors and a button that links straight to your project. No fake disclaimer, because it's a real ad.
To get one:
- 🖱️ Open DEV·TV and hit Submit your project, or
- ✉️ Email [email protected] with your project name, a one-line pitch and a link.
I screen every submission myself, the same way I do for the Spotlight channel. 🔦
🔗 The links
- 📺 DEV·TV, a retro TV for the developer internet: shouvik12.github.io/devtv · source
- 📄 leantext, lean Markdown for your coding agent, up to 99% fewer tokens: github.com/shouvik12/leantext
- 🎨 living-canvas, animated README banners from any repo: github.com/shouvik12/living-canvas
Leave DEV·TV running on a second monitor. 🖥️ Sooner or later, a break comes up, and maybe your project is the one on screen. 👀
Top comments (2)
No way, using an AI skill to turn a repo into a self-contained animated banner is seriously clever. I wonder if the AI struggles when the project's core idea isn't immediately obvious from the code or description?
Thanks Ivan! Yes, it can. That's the hardest part, and the skill is built around it.
Before it draws anything, it has to boil the project down to one core idea and find a real example from the project itself: an actual input and output, a before/after, a real number. Then it runs a "still-frame test": if someone saw only a screenshot, could they tell what the project does? If not, it adds labels and simplifies before it's done.
When a repo's README is thin or the idea is abstract, that's where it gets weaker. It leans on the tagline and file structure and can land on something generic. The fix is usually one sentence of context ("it turns X into Y") and it clicks.
Would love to see what it makes of one of your repos if you try it 🙂