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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/discussion
by qrohlf 4y ago
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/ 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 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-113bb8590613 https://medium.com/@qrohlf/i-sell-triangles-on-the-internet-...
- chrismorgan 4y ago> micropayments I don’t think it’s reasonable to call $8 micropayments. Now if you were selling the individual triangles pro rata…
- jasonm23 4y agoThe triangles individually can cost up to $0.40... now that's value, and sarcasm.
- martin_a 4y agoHow much does it pay you monthly, if I may ask?
- textninja 4y agoI 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.
- martin_a 4y agoHonestly, 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.
- MauranKilom 4y agoWithout 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.
- CompuIves 4y agoThank 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!