mikaelaast

OP here. There's a little more than that to it.

OP here. I don't do any cloud computing to deliver the service. It is essentially a pure JavaScript-application running on the client.

OP here. How would you monetize it?

OP here. Love to hear it!

OP here. Duly noted!

OP here. Thanks! And yeah, I will try to improve on the landing page.

OP here. A few others have made this point, and it's glaringly obvious to me in retrospect. Guess I have my work cut out for me.

OP here. I'm fantasising about making a video version of this app, to generate some very cool documentary-style Ken Burns-shit imagery.

OP here. It's basically Ken-Burns-on-steroids vibes.

OP here. Thanks for the advice. I have been considering a few different options. Perhaps I could have a preloaded screenshot with the UI already initialised, so I immediately can show off the functionality? I don't know what is the best approach.

OP here. Thanks, that's good to hear. I got journalists at a couple of the big newspaper players here in my country (Norway) to purchase subscriptions, and after seeing these pop up in articles rather often, I felt that I had sold myself short with the $5 monthly fee. One of them (VG.no), is like the 2nd biggest site in Norway, with 70 million visits a month. I guess I'm bad at business.

OP here. Valid point! I find it hard to strike a good balance between demonstrating value and cutting to the chase. I wanted it to come off as a utility that lets you take action immediately.

Mods, could you please delete this post?

OP here! I'm excited to share my latest project, Metalmorphism (https://www.metalmorphism.com), with you all. It is a sibling project to my open source library MetalliCSS (https://www.metallicss.com). I've been obsessively at work to create a high-end and unique metallic look that I feel has been sorely missing from the web. Maybe Metalmorphism can bring a touch of metallic elegance to some of your projects in 2023?

OP again. I couldn't get this out of my head, so I went to some steps to mitigate the unrealism. Updated now, with a slightly less wobbly horizon.

Aero not going to pick up?

OP here. Never change, Hacker News. Never change. <3

OP here. Believe it or not, that was actually exactly my conceptual starting point. Goes without saying that I had to scale back my ambitions just a tiny bit.

Thank you! This kind of comment makes it worth it.

Thank you for the comment. I get it completely. The ripple effect is my artistic and decidedly unrealistic way of evoking the general feeling of the kind of distortion that occurs when the metallic surface bends. It works well for the most part (in my opinion), but starts to call attention to itself when applied too heavily (like what happens when upping the "--scale" value). I am hoping it serves as a simplified and abstracted interpretation of reality.

Thanks for the feedback. The "for CSS" is in reference to how CSS properties like the dimensions and border-radius are what determine the rendered effect. Also, there are additional custom CSS properties available to control even more aspects of the final look.

Sorry!

OP here. Awesome to get some feedback on the library. Please let me know if you are curious about details. The insanely hard part of this was reconciling the differences in SVG implementations across browser engines.

To be a fly on the wall at Facebook HQ right now...

OP: I like that idea. And yes, I've noticed your posts. Hej, söta bror!

OP: <3

OP here: Finally someone is asking the right questions... I don't know. Naming stuff is hard, and it was late at night.

OP here: That's <$1 per image :) I'd venture to say that's a good deal, any way you slice it.

OP here: Thanks, and great question! I really like the idea of it being a one-click thing. Adding features is a slippery slope...

OP here: Yes. Not to mention how OCR-unfriendly it is... I don't know what to tell you. Screenfluff didn't have the same ring to it.