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I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

poptheconfetti.website

82 pointsbeingmani40 comments

Seems to use https://github.com/catdad/canvas-confetti but the license was not included in any form?

This is sad. Especially when you incorporate a personal donation feature, very sad.

Edit: This is what the actual post should've been. Here is HN post for the actual script itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156330

Credit is given on the about page with a link to Canvas Confetti github.

Since it is a single page application, its harder to trawl through its history, however: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130094532jm_/https://popthe...

Searching through the prior index file for "Credits" or the such, yields no results

React et al is credited somewhat however.

Wow, I didn't even notice or realize it was a link!

Edit: it was probably added afterwards and donations were removed.

Flagging it for:

- just a website to ask donations

- didn't give credit for the open source code that it is required by license

This is not a good behavior and should not be on HN

Me too, lost a few hours sleep on this one.

Did it get updated over the last 2 hours? I see credit on the About page and no donation link.

Yeah, there was no About page before and the donation link is now removed too.

It's slightly annoying that the sound effect seems to contain some initial silence. The sounds don't align with the clicks!

Speed of sound, clearly. I estimate the confetti is about 50 meters away.

This may be more satisfactory for you: https://popcat.click/

For a Linux user, this seems quite trivial to replicate using any kernel since mid-2023, with lower latency and lower security exposure.

Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

> Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

So that the author can get donations while piggybacking off a confetti library that other people wrote.

I laughed

Needs an observability dashboard for insights.

For those who want to experiment with different click speed values without clicking, web console code that clicks twice with a set timeout:

    setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000); setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1200);

For those who want to test the limits of your device and your neighbors (100 clicks at once, 1s from now):

    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000);}

100-200 at one worked reasonably well; 10,000 was definitely a problem :)

Should be submitted here: https://theuselessweb.com/

Pretty. Do bubble wrap next please!

Not bubble wrap, but comparable: https://thezen.zone/switch

But where is the AI?

Nice, just spent 2 mins popping.

Thank you. I really needed that in my life today.

no reason pitch: if you like no reason software, a weekend ago i build snake game in an lsd-pentagon for no good reason https://pentasnake.franzai.com/

Ha! That brought a smile to my face. Thank you.

Did anyone get a faster click speed than 45ms?

I got 2ms but I think this is just lagging in Safari

At first I was getting 46, then got it down to 32, then 26, then 11. I stopped trying after that, don’t want to waste more than a minute on this.

For reference, this was on mobile and it did cause the screen to zoom in and out on occasion due to the fast double taps.

I seem to be capped at 98 ms (FF/chrome ubuntu 24.04).

38, but only by tabbing to the button and finger drumming the enter key

Space key also works, so you can have one hand tapping enter and space along with the other rolling the mouse key.

i got 16ms on mobile by laying it flat on my desk and spamming with both index fingers

You should also add a CPS counter

This is what the internet is for! (it's for all the other useful, valuable, life-saving stuff too)

Poke the bunny

Needs a share on bluesky link ;)

But why?

I refer you to the title of the submission, my good man.

Because so many people on here talk about how good the "old web" used to be. This is it. This is peak old web. Maybe a bit too polished, but still. Pointless and fun, because fun is fun.

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