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Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by onion2k »

perk wrote: post #10
jordanmarshall wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Great idea! I've considered adding an option to download individual gradients as an image, but I haven't thought about that as the primary focus. Certainly the number of people interested in cool backgrounds is going to be much larger than the current audience of frontend web developers. The cool thing is that the two target audiences aren't mutually exclusive. So long as I continue to build out the images in CSS, I…

FWIW html2canvas is pretty good for all html-screenshotty things. Might work here as well. https://html2canvas.hertzen.com/

Good as html2canvas is, these days you may get more milage creating an SVG, putting the HTML content in it as a ForeignObject, and then using the browser's ability to copy an image to a canvas with the SVG as the source. I use that technique in a very complex diagramming app I work on and it never seems to fail regardless of the HTML content. Getting fonts and external styles to work is fun but that wouldn't apply here.

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by adontz »

Are not these much heavier than SVG image backgrounds? I tested by putting five backgrounds into my real web project and scroll does not seem smooth anymore.

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by nitrogen »

jordanmarshall wrote: post #2

Hey HN! GradientMagic is a side project that I launched roughly a year ago. It’s a large gallery of unique CSS gradients. You can browse the different patterns and copy the CSS with a single click, no login required. CSS gradients are often preferable to images since they are usually much smaller and easier to manage. I would love any feedback or improvement ideas, but my real question is this: is it worth my time to…

Just one suggestion: showing the CSS inline would be helpful. Admittedly I only bounced around for like 30 seconds, but I didn't see a way to show CSS on the page.

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by ggrelet »

Evan_Hellmuth wrote: post #7

Common way to monetize sites like yours is ads via Carbon, eg https://colors.lol/ Another more lucrative but laborious way is to use this site as an ad for contract work. Just throw a banner on top “need custom design work for your next product launch? Contact me here”

I don’t understand the part about https://colors.lol/ (viewing on mobile phone)

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by mindvirus »

ci5er wrote: post #20
mindvirus wrote: post #8

Beautiful! I'm going to use a few of these for my project. For monetization - maybe start with ads and add a https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ link or similar? I'm not convinced subscriptions would work, since I imagine that a lot of people need a gradient once and that's it, but you can always ask people. In terms of feature suggestions: - I like the edit colors feature - but can you make it global? i.e. I have my color…

May I ask where you live? pixelarity.com has a hundred-or-so (I haven't counted) Bootstrap templates that save me time whenever somebody wants me to set up a small website (for free - I hate that), and for the $5/month or $20/year or whatever it is - it's worth it to me. I've notice that a lot of people on HN don't want to pay $20/month (or whatever) for things that save them hours and hours of work. I don't understa…

In NYC. That's a fair point - thinking in terms of annual access makes more sense.

For me it's more adversion to subscriptions for things I use once. I'm always happy to pay for things I use, but if I subscribe for $10/month and forget I don't find out until years later that I spent $100s on a thing. That said for anything like these gradients, for $10-$15/year I wouldn't hesitate.

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by Evan_Hellmuth »

ggrelet wrote: post #26
Evan_Hellmuth wrote: post #7

Common way to monetize sites like yours is ads via Carbon, eg https://colors.lol/ Another more lucrative but laborious way is to use this site as an ad for contract work. Just throw a banner on top “need custom design work for your next product launch? Contact me here”

I don’t understand the part about https://colors.lol/ (viewing on mobile phone)

An example of a similar site that monetizes with ads via carbon

Re: Show HN: GradientMagic

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Post by ci5er »

mindvirus wrote: post #28
ci5er wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

May I ask where you live? pixelarity.com has a hundred-or-so (I haven't counted) Bootstrap templates that save me time whenever somebody wants me to set up a small website (for free - I hate that), and for the $5/month or $20/year or whatever it is - it's worth it to me. I've notice that a lot of people on HN don't want to pay $20/month (or whatever) for things that save them hours and hours of work. I don't understa…

In NYC. That's a fair point - thinking in terms of annual access makes more sense. For me it's more adversion to subscriptions for things I use once. I'm always happy to pay for things I use, but if I subscribe for $10/month and forget I don't find out until years later that I spent $100s on a thing. That said for anything like these gradients, for $10-$15/year I wouldn't hesitate.

I have a little of that with O'Reilly Safari. (Currently) they only charge me $199/year, but are thinking to raising the price to $499. I'm thinking I would rather buy their books one-off.

But I buy a shit-ton of stuff at ~10/months (maybe $5, maybe $20), but if they jack their rates I will go one-off again.

I don't know if I am unique (and thank you for answering the question), at a certain level like JetBrains IDEs or Sublime or O'Reilly - I just pay it. It starts to wear on one over time....

Apple kills me. I tend to release things on Linux or Windows. Maybe Windows. But iOS - You have to have a Mac and a Development platform and subscription. I think they must hate developers. I would pay them for product sold - but can you at least make dev tools a little cheaper? I run into this issue in university dev-camp conversations a lot..

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