"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
Appreciate the feedback though; it's a valid concern.
on the minecraft tips app, you are paying money for something that saves you time.
on this one, you are paying for the same thing here, unless you wanna reimplement it by your own.
and there are lots of avenues to have an edge, such as support for other framework / libraries, better / more efficient implementation, more configurability / control on possible variants.
please don't shoot down people on their attempts to make a living on their efforts.
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).
UI animations and needless "glitz" is inconsiderate of low-vision users, users who might have poor technical skills and who rely on UI consistency to accomplish tasks, users with low-spec hardware, users who are forced to use remote framebuffer protocols over low bandwidth connections, and of the environment (by way of increased processing power and electricity required).
- React - check
- Framer Motion - check
This hit the spot for me.
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.
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.
If you want to spend time building your own library, like OP has , and release it , god speed — that is if you can. In the meanwhile, OP actually spent energy to build and launch something, which is commendable.