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Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion
- nilirl 4mo agoOh, 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.
- hnlmorg 4mo agoThe 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)
- wahnfrieden 4mo agoHyperframes is a more mature tool in more than one way
- klntsky 4mo ago> are not appealing to look at. They word you are looking for is 'vibecoded'
- Jackobrien 4mo agoThis is really cool. Can imagine vibe creating scenes quickly. If the animation was a bit smoother, I could see this being used all over.
- utopiah 4mo agoInteresting, 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 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.
- webprofusion 4mo agoHow does this get on the front page of hacker news?
- hahn-kev 4mo agoHey at least it's not AI
- allanmacgregor 4mo agoAre going to pretend this wasn't vibecoded?
- GL26 4mo agoThis 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".
- Urahandystar 4mo agoThis 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.
- Igor_Wiwi 4mo agoMermaid diagrams are awesome, the usual pain points which I am trying to solve in https://mdview.io https://mdview.io is to allow to fix broken diagrams visually: you hit Quick Fix and then given 3 fix propositions to choose from. Sounds complicated but it works in 80% of times
- maxloh 4mo agoThere have been too many ads for this site posted this month. 8 of your 10 recent comments are just site promotions, which is getting annoying. By the way, I don't really see the value here. Most of this could be vibe-coded and reimplemented in a day or two. It’s just an integration of existing NPM libraries.
- upmostly 4mo agoI suggest you change the demo. 1. Boys see girl 2. Boys fight over girl Creator could have chosen literally anything else to represent their product but instead went with an animation of boy emojis fighting over a girl emoji.
- philipallstar 4mo agoYou could've commented literally anything else instead of this but instead went with a zero-content apparent criticism of the web page.
- praash 4mo ago> zero-content Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.
- philipallstar 4mo agoBut not why.
- kreetx 4mo agoThe topic of the demo is just ..odd: it's negative in its nature, difficult to understand (is there a message or a joke in there?), the animation isn't aesthetically pleasing either.
- quietbritishjim 4mo agoYou just need to be older than 12 to understand what is problematic about the demo. Just pointing it out was sufficient.
- 9dev 4mo agoReproducing cringy sexist bullshit is a choice deserving of criticism.
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- swiftcoder 4mo agoThis is just the weirdest subject choice for a demo
- unfamiliar 4mo agoAbsolutely deranged
- dang 4mo agoEdit: if hnlmorg's reply is accurate then I take this back! --- 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 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.
- swiftcoder 4mo agoI don't know, man - sexism is a pretty universal concept, and the author has lived/worked in the US, so its not like he's never watched one of those sexual harassment training videos...
- praash 4mo agoDan, your HN comments are a collection of beautiful essays that is becoming a reference library for healthy discourse. I think it deserves a dedicated website.
- dang 4mo agoI'm glad that somebody reads them!
- dredmorbius 4mo agoOh, we do, closely ;-)
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- khazhoux 4mo ago> No keyframes, no drag-and-drop. No human developer… :-\
- doginasuit 4mo agoThis 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.
- oulipo2 4mo agoYes, 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
- libria 4mo agoAgree 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".
- IceDane 4mo agoThe 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.
- allanmacgregor 4mo agoHow is this in the frontpage and with 77 points?!
- tomsonj 4mo agoreminds me of Story Machine on the C64
- felooboolooomba 4mo agoCool project. Cringemaxxing demo, just like this comment.
- xtiansimon 4mo agoI recall MM Flash quite fondly. But what is the best-use case here? Where would this deploy?
- WolfOliver 4mo agoit took me a while to understand what is ment with "Motion"
- WolfOliver 4mo agomaybe "animations" would be a better term
- opem 4mo agocringe 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 :)