HypeWheel

Free, customizable spinning wheel for giveaways, classroom picks, and random name selection.

Live app: hypewheel.app

Features

• Spin the wheel — Enter names (one per line) and spin to pick a random winner
• Multiple wheels — Run several wheels at once from the header
• Customize each wheel — Colors, images, spin speed/duration, sound, and confetti
• Brand packs — Save and reuse appearance presets across wheels
• Theater & OBS overlay — Full-screen theater mode, or ?overlay=1 for a transparent Browser Source (Space = spin, R = remove, K = keep)
• Share links — Copy a compressed ?w= link for one or all wheels (Import/Export)
• Winners history — Track past winners; copy as a formatted table or export CSV
• Import / export — Back up or restore wheels, winners, brand packs, and settings as JSON
• Dark mode — Toggle theme from the navbar
• URL import — Open with ?list=name1,name2,name3&title=My+Giveaway to preload names

Quick start

1. Open hypewheel.app
2. Click a wheel’s text area and paste names, one per line
3. Click SPIN (or click the wheel)
4. Open Winners in the header to review, copy, or export results

Import names from a URL

https://hypewheel.app/?title=Instagram+Giveaway&list=Alice,Bob,Charlie

The wheel title and entries are added automatically. This is how the Chrome extension sends commenters into HypeWheel.

Share links and OBS overlay

From Import / Export, copy a share link (?w=…) for large lists, or an OBS overlay link (?w=…&overlay=1). Overlay mode hides chrome and uses a transparent background for Browser Source.

Chrome extension

Pull unique commenter names from social posts or Google Sheets and open them in HypeWheel:

• Install from the Chrome Web Store
• Extension source & docs

Supported sources: X (Twitter), Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Google Sheets.

Repository layout

Path	Description
index.html	Main HypeWheel web app (single-page, static)
js/share.js	Compress/encode share-link payloads
logo.png	Site logo
privacy.html	Privacy policy
404.html	GitHub Pages 404 page
CNAME	Custom domain (hypewheel.app)
Extension/	Chrome extension source

Development

HypeWheel is a static site hosted on GitHub Pages. No build step is required for the web app—edit index.html (and js/) and push to main.

git clone https://github.com/TechJeeper/HypeWheel.git
cd HypeWheel
# Open index.html locally, or serve with any static file server

To work on the extension, see Extension/README.md.

Links

• Website: hypewheel.app
• Issues: github.com/TechJeeper/HypeWheel/issues
• Privacy: hypewheel.app/privacy.html