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Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library by armedin

Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library by armedin

Show HN: I reverse engineered top websites to build an animated UI library by armedin

15 Comments

  • Post Author
    bflesch
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 7:16 pm

    Thanks for sharing, it looks very good. Unfortunately on my system it has very low fps due to software rendering.

  • Post Author
    freetonik
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 8:07 pm

    The quality is very impressive! Congrats on the launch.

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    naavis
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 8:26 pm

    Looks cool, but the site is very heavy! I have an RTX 3070 GPU, and GPU usage went shot to 70% when I opened this website on Firefox.

  • Post Author
    toddmorey
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 8:29 pm

      "reverse-engineering their components out of curiosity" - Fantastic
      sharing your learnings with the community - Fantastic
      Attempting to make subscription money off the clones - Not so fantastic
    

    Sorry… something about that last bit just really hit me wrong. Like when people make a paid Minecraft Tips "App" that's just content scraped from the web.

  • Post Author
    caseyy
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 8:53 pm

    I love that the glowing orb is a component. Many websites could use an orb.

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    ziftface
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 9:14 pm

    Would love if the site had some more information about how the components are implemented, eg does it use tailwind so they're easily modifiable, is there a light mode and a dark mode for each, can you update the animations to fit your needs, etc. They look good though!

  • Post Author
    handfuloflight
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 9:34 pm

    Absolutely beautiful set here. I'd pay for à la carte.

  • Post Author
    Fokamul
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 9:58 pm

    Web would be a better place without UI animations.

  • Post Author
    morteify
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 10:22 pm

    The Caesar Cipher component is displaying incorrectly in Safari. Its elements are positioned off-center. It works fine in Chrome and Firefox.

  • Post Author
    hexo
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 10:48 pm

    "Animated UI" is show stopper.

  • Post Author
    jwilber
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 11:11 pm

    This is just selling components someone else wrote, right?

    Five years ago I could understand the appeal and appreciate the effort required. Today, it’s a matter of seeing others work, taking a screenshot, asking ai to recreate it, and then packaging it into a “library” and selling it for $50.

    Maybe I’m alone in the sentiment, but it just rubs me the wrong way.

  • Post Author
    Mystery-Machine
    Posted April 24, 2025 at 11:57 pm

    The components looks really cool! However, you're using dark pattern by tricking the user with "Login to access the code" button. After I've gone through the process of signing up and logged in, I still couldn't access the component code. The same button then said "Unlock the code". Clicking on the button takes you to the Pricing page where you can pay $50 to see the component code. That's a dark pattern.

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    zeroq
    Posted April 25, 2025 at 12:47 am

    This looks like an AI generated project with a very little effort put into polishing what came out.

    I mean, if you find people willing to pay you money then great, good for you.
    But I don't see anything I wouldn't be able to find on sites like css tricks or tympanus for free.

    And I don't even know what I'm paying for, there are no real examples on the page.

    But I'll put it in my bookmarks. As soon as you have more components, and I'll find some spare time, I'm willing to give it a try and launch reverse-reverse-ui.com with all components available for free.

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    curtisszmania
    Posted April 25, 2025 at 3:04 am

    [dead]

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    kmoser
    Posted April 25, 2025 at 3:26 am

    Took me a bit to figure out what the four circular icons on the bottom are for (magic wand, robot, envelope, crescent moon). I really wish they had tooltips.

    Still doesn't make sense to me why the magic wand just points to the home page (I would have assumed it meant "edit this UI component), the robot links to a profile page (mine? requires login so didn't try), the envelope points to x.com (I expected an envelope for "email this to a friend"), and the crescent moon toggles between light/dark mode (obvious only in retrospect).

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