# simpsoka/zigzag

> Free Rust-based machine embroidery editor for Mac and Windows: turns SVG artwork into stitches, lets you edit designs visually, and exports to PES, DST, EXP, JEF, VP3 or sends to a Brother Skitch over Bluetooth. Supports MCP so AI agents can create and edit designs.

- Magnitude: 6.7 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 656 total · +49 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:03–10:32 UTC, ≈ 160 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Apps · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-30 · Last push: 2026-11-14
- GitHub: https://github.com/simpsoka/zigzag · Homepage: https://zigzag.diy/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/simpsoka/zigzag

## Useful for

- Convert an SVG logo into a PES embroidery file for a home machine
- Tune satin, tatami fill and underlay for dense shape coverage
- Send a finished design to a Brother Skitch over Bluetooth from the editor

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:03–10:32: 607 → 656 stars (+49). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +160 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- Elevated gains were measured on the last 2 completed UTC days in a row. Continued growth is not guaranteed.
- The repository is 15 days old and already has 656 stars.
- Hacker News: “Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app” — 724 points, 1 day ago.
- About 12 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 32
- Issues and pull requests: 17
- Watchers: 6
- Average over the last week: 108 per day
- Usual pace: 2 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 5
- Latest release: v0.1.3 (2026-11-13)

## Stars per day, last 16 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-30 … 2026-11-14: 27, 3, 2, 0, 1, 2, 0, 3, 1, 0, 1, 0, 5, 314, 274, 49

## Magnitude by day, last 3 days

11-12 4.9, 11-13 7.2, 11-14 6.9

## Hacker News

- Show HN: My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app — 724 points, 245 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50470488

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 10:41 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.