back
73 comments
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.
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".

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
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.

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)

Hyperframes is a more mature tool in more than one way
> are not appealing to look at.

They word you are looking for is 'vibecoded'

This is just the weirdest subject choice for a demo
Edit: 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): 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.

Normally I’d be the first to argue for cultural diversity. However I don’t know of any culture that would consider masturbation an appropriate theme for a tech demo.

Even the articles on here that are very specifically about adult content (such as advertising on porn sites) have been more tasteful than some of the demos on this project.

So I can only conclude that this submission isn’t the result of cultural bias. Unless you consider “immaturity” a culture. But then you have to ask yourself if that’s a culture you want to promote in HN.

> masturbation an appropriate theme for a tech demo.

Oof, I didn't see any of that. I was reacting to the boy/girl stuff at the beginning, which is the sort of thing that is still conventional in some places. If I had seen the level of weirdness that you describe, I wouldn't have posted.

I've added an edit to my post above. Forgive the "if" - that's my hedge against having to watch the entire thing!

I 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...
Dan, 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.
I'm glad that somebody reads them!
Absolutely deranged
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".
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.
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.

Cool project. Cringemaxxing demo, just like this comment.
How does this get on the front page of hacker news?
Hey at least it's not AI
Are going to pretend this wasn't vibecoded?
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.
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 :)
How is this in the frontpage and with 77 points?!
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.

Macromedia Flash vibes.

Don’t stop.

Hey don't bring Flash into this
I recall MM Flash quite fondly. But what is the best-use case here? Where would this deploy?
it took me a while to understand what is ment with "Motion"
maybe "animations" would be a better term
reminds me of Story Machine on the C64
> No keyframes, no drag-and-drop.

No human developer… :-\

I 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.

Where I made up my mind is during “dance party” where the boys have faces and the girl has a dancing woman for a head.

Overall the idea is creative, but also not at all what I hoped. Was hoping for diagrams of actors in the systems sense.

If you thought that was bad, whatever you do, do NOT click the play button for the 5th step-by-step example: Expressions & Limbs.

I've never, EVER, in 18 years of being in this business, seen a software product demo of an emoji doing THAT before...

Wow. That sure is something.
Such a weird and creepy choice
yeah... AI doesnt seem to make us more creative
Ironically I don't think AI is this tone deaf.
You could've commented literally anything else instead of this but instead went with a zero-content apparent criticism of the web page.
> zero-content

Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.

Reproducing cringy sexist bullshit is a choice deserving of criticism.
The fact that people in the tech-world don't realize that they are embodying deeply ingrained sexist / toxic behavior is the reason why women aren't more present, and why people like Musk or other sociopaths have been celebrated by this community, while the rest of the world hate them...
Mermaid diagrams are awesome, the usual pain points which I am trying to solve in 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
There 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.

My goal is to build the only app you need for reading technical documentation. I am working on it daily for the past 5 months, and almost every day I have a new feature which I want to share with HN people and try it out