Markdy: Like Mermaid Diagrams, but for Motion
90 points
1 day ago
| 17 comments
| markdy.com
| HN
upmostly
3 hours ago
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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.

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Garlef
3 hours ago
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yeah... AI doesnt seem to make us more creative
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jappgar
49 minutes ago
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Ironically I don't think AI is this tone deaf.
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philipallstar
3 hours ago
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You could've commented literally anything else instead of this but instead went with a zero-content apparent criticism of the web page.
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praash
2 hours ago
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> zero-content

Changing the default demo is a reasonable and actionable suggestion.

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philipallstar
2 hours ago
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But not why.
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kreetx
1 hour ago
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The 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.
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quietbritishjim
1 hour ago
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You just need to be older than 12 to understand what is problematic about the demo. Just pointing it out was sufficient.
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9dev
2 hours ago
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Reproducing cringy sexist bullshit is a choice deserving of criticism.
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mapcars
25 minutes ago
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Its the plague of western people thinking they have the moral high ground over other cultures and nations. In the place where I grew up this kind of scene would be considered normal. But you must be the one who dictates what is right and what is wrong, don't you?
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blanched
7 minutes ago
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Why are you passionately defending this? I doubt the author cares much, it's clearly an example that came about through vibe coding.

It's not core to the tech/product, people think it's off-putting, why not change it?

Hacker News loves to talk about being amazing business-people and "understanding the customer" but somehow that gets dropped for things like this.

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philipallstar
2 hours ago
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No-one's mentioned that anything's sexist, or how. You're filling in the blanks to create content where there wasn't any.
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nilirl
1 hour ago
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That's how conversation works. Things can be implied when it's obvious.

And if it's not, the onus is on you to ask why.

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oulipo2
1 hour ago
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The fact that EVERYBODY here sees it but you, tells you that perhaps you should take a step back and try to understand... it might be YOU who don't get it at all...
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csneeky
29 minutes ago
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I think the poster gets it. As do I. And I do not believe either of us care all that much about the vocal minority.
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oulipo2
1 hour ago
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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...
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doginasuit
1 hour ago
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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.
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libria
12 minutes ago
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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".

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oulipo2
1 hour ago
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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
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nilirl
5 hours ago
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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.

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hnlmorg
4 hours ago
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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)

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wahnfrieden
3 hours ago
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Hyperframes is a more mature tool in more than one way
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klntsky
4 hours ago
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> are not appealing to look at.

They word you are looking for is 'vibecoded'

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swiftcoder
2 hours ago
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This is just the weirdest subject choice for a demo
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unfamiliar
1 hour ago
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Absolutely deranged
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GL26
3 hours ago
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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".
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xtiansimon
25 minutes ago
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I recall MM Flash quite fondly. But what is the best-use case here? Where would this deploy?
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utopiah
4 hours ago
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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.

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felooboolooomba
25 minutes ago
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Cool project. Cringemaxxing demo, just like this comment.
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allanmacgregor
1 hour ago
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How is this in the frontpage and with 77 points?!
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WolfOliver
19 minutes ago
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it took me a while to understand what is ment with "Motion"
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WolfOliver
18 minutes ago
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maybe "animations" would be a better term
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Jackobrien
5 hours ago
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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.
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webprofusion
3 hours ago
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How does this get on the front page of hacker news?
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hahn-kev
1 hour ago
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Hey at least it's not AI
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allanmacgregor
1 hour ago
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Are going to pretend this wasn't vibecoded?
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tomsonj
43 minutes ago
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reminds me of Story Machine on the C64
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Urahandystar
3 hours ago
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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.

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itomato
1 hour ago
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Macromedia Flash vibes.

Don’t stop.

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jappgar
5 minutes ago
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Hey don't bring Flash into this
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Igor_Wiwi
3 hours ago
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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
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maxloh
3 hours ago
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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.

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Igor_Wiwi
2 hours ago
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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
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itomato
1 hour ago
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Spam is not the way to win hearts and minds
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IceDane
1 hour ago
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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.
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khazhoux
2 hours ago
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> No keyframes, no drag-and-drop.

No human developer… :-\

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