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  • This is both awful and essentially the future, By that I mean its raw now as its in the beginning but this gave me flashbacks to the flash era of the web that had so much creativity across it.

    Once you are able to add more assets in the place of emoji's this could really take off especially in the younger users. Instead of sending an emoji you'd instruct an LLM to create you one of these to send.

    Well done.

    by Urahandystar
  • Macromedia Flash vibes.

    Don’t stop.

    by itomato
  • How is this in the frontpage and with 77 points?!
    by allanmacgregor
  • cringe demo to bring attention is probably not a good way to go. that is how instagram became instagram. let's not do this to hn :)
    by opem
  • This is really cool. Can imagine vibe creating scenes quickly. If the animation was a bit smoother, I could see this being used all over.
    by Jackobrien
  • How does this get on the front page of hacker news?
    by webprofusion
  • Hey at least it's not AI
    by hahn-kev
  • Cool project. Cringemaxxing demo, just like this comment.
    by felooboolooomba
  • Interesting, I do a bit of animation in XR for pedagogy. I can easily recognize patterns, e.g. stacking animations one after the other, classic parameters like duration, easing.

    I'm wondering though if, compared to what I already know (e.g. https://aframe.io/docs/1.7.0/components/animation.html ) how this is better. Maybe a "renderer" there could be outputting AFrame animations instead (itself based on AnimeJS, quite popular).

    It could be useful to discuss scenarii but storyboard is usually sufficient.

    I'd be curious how newcomers take it up. I think for (JavaScript) the syntax is pretty straightforward but for others I'm not sure.

    by utopiah
  • The examples for the M5 exploit and the other stuff immediately make me think that the author is an idiot. I'm not calling you an idiot - I'm saying that if I were to read a technical article and the first thing I'm presented with is an absurdly stupid emoji-person animation that makes no sense and has no purpose and adds literally nothing, I would just immediately exit that website. This goes for all of the examples, and the fact that it's all so clearly written by LLMs isn't helping either.
    by IceDane
  • This would be much more useful if it wasn't stickmen but animating components (which would allow to do "launch video" tier animations) on boxes, and websites. This would allow for people to create tiny components and not put videos. I feel like stickmen are a "nice to have".
    by GL26
  • This is just the weirdest subject choice for a demo
    by swiftcoder
  • Absolutely deranged
    by unfamiliar
  • Edit: if hnlmorg's reply is accurate then I take this back!

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    This is likely a cultural mismatch. I'd bet this demo was made by someone far away from the countries that most HN users are from.

    From a few years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23308098): that's a hidden source of conflict, because people frequently misinterpret a conventional comment coming from a different region for an extreme comment coming from nearby.

    by dang
  • Oh, I like the features a lot but I don't like the aesthetics.

    Maybe that's just the examples but the animations are not appealing to look at.

    by nilirl
  • > are not appealing to look at.

    They word you are looking for is 'vibecoded'

    by klntsky
  • The animations are just weird. Not just on an aesthetic level but the subject matter too. If they really feel the need to convey a short story then at least base it on a public domain fairytale instead of two guys literally fighting over a women.

    …or better yet, have something that people might actually want to animate using this tool. Like a chart. It might be boring but you’re at least keeping consistent with what the target audience needs (or at least that’s my understanding of your target audience from the rest of the landing page)

    by hnlmorg
  • This is an interesting concept, but I would rework the demos to show content that people might actually want to use. Transitions of text content describing a product or service, like bullet points that animate in sequentially comes to mind. Applying motion to text content is not something that is easy to get right, but simple and brief motions can be very effective. I would use something like content you might see in a well-made powerpoint presentation as a starting point.
    by doginasuit
  • Yes, even reworking a classic "infra diagram" with connection between a web browser and a server, but showing it as an animation could be interesting, but those little stories add very little
    by oulipo2
  • Agree that it might sell better if we see the typical examples we'd normally see in say a vector driven 2D animation from various industries.

    1. ProductSpec sent to Factory with multiple Products being created, packed, shipped, distribution centers, last-mile, receiving

    2. Client -> API -> Edge -> Business layer -> DataSource dataflow.

    3. Compliance training scenario videos. Security training. "Joe needs to share internal code. He uploads it to pastebin and emails the link to the team. What should Joe do instead?"

    4. Education, can this work for illustrative problem solving? Deriving quadratic formula by completing squares?

    This could also use a FF or Rewind timeline or some kind of time control like "Play from Line 24".

    by libria