Comment by qrohlf | Hacker News Reader

Comment by qrohlf | Hacker News Reader

Author here - interesting to see this pop up on HN again!

Since there are a lot of questions in the comments that might be answered by prior writing/discussions, here are a couple relevant links:

0. Trianglify.io is a GUI for my GPL-licensed node library of the same name, which is available for use in OSS projects for free: https://qrohlf.com/trianglify/

1. Trianglify (the library) first became popular because of an HN post eight years ago. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7578002

2. I've written a short Medium article on why Trianglify.io exists and how I arrived at the current freemium/micropayments model for monetizing it: https://medium.com/@qrohlf/i-sell-triangles-on-the-internet-...

> micropayments

I don’t think it’s reasonable to call $8 micropayments. Now if you were selling the individual triangles pro rata…

The triangles individually can cost up to $0.40... now that's value, and sarcasm.

Without looking at the code, just playing with the sliders, this is just:

- Generate points on a grid,

- perturb each one by a random (variance-scaled) vector,

- compute Delaunay triangulation,

- color each triangle by some function (pretty clear for Gradient, the others I can't intuit)

...right?

Not meant to diminish the work (it's clean and simple, nice job!), just wondering how close I got.

How much does it pay you monthly, if I may ask?

I am dying to know the answer to this. I can’t get over the fact people are paying $8 for downloads of randomized triangles, but then again NFTs are a thing so I shouldn’t be too surprised.

Honestly, I'd be totally cool if it pays some bills because it fixes somebodies problem. I just wonder if projects this small can really be monetized.

Thank you for creating this! I remember using this for the header of my portfolio website before I got my first job. Happy to see that it's still active, I hope that the monetization model is working out well!

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