alyssaxuu
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Designer, developer, & entrepreneur. alyssax.com
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Comment · 3 years ago
Ha, I had the same thought. I recently watched this video which you might find interesting (mostly re: demoscene):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roBkg-iPrbw
Comment · 4 years ago
Appreciate it! :)
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been thinking about building a motion graphics editor for a while now, since I feel like After Effects can be pretty overkill.
My idea was to combine the simplicity of a tool like Canva or Kapwing, where you can easily search and drag and drop assets into the canvas, with more powerful features like keyframing, easing, masking, and more. I decided to make it free and open source, as I might add more to it in the future.
If you're curious I've been sharing how I built this on my newsletter, here's one of the issues I wrote a few weeks ago: https://www.getrevue.co/profile/alyssaxuu/issues/adding-imag...
Comment · 4 years ago
I'm an avid Notion user, so I wanted to build something to help me be more productive. My first thought was to create a simple inline canvas to draw using a /draw command, to annotate my pages, only to realize that Notion does not allow you to create custom commands.
So instead I decided to do a bit of a workaround to implement custom commands into Notion (through an extension), and created a couple of them to draw and record your camera and audio. I also made a bit of a SDK to interact with Notion so anyone can create their own plugins with ease, and made the code open source.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you so much! I'm trying to be more open with my process :)
Comment · 4 years ago
Last month I created a menu bar app for Mac to solve a problem I had when traveling. I decided to write about how I came up with the idea, learnt to use Swift from zero, and how I marketed it to get thousands of dollars in sales. Hope you find it interesting!
Comment · 4 years ago
I decided to learn Swift in a week and build an app to solve a problem I've been having for ages.
Basically what the app does is save and close all your apps in one click (or keystroke), and reopen them all later. The idea is to be able to clean up your desktop before screen sharing / making a screen recording, or just saving your workspace to switch off from work and come back another time (even by scheduling apps to open automatically some time later).
I wrote about how I developed and designed the app over here if curious: https://ckarchive.com/b/0vuwh9h4ron7
Comment · 4 years ago
I've been trying to optimize my time lately, and I figured I could build some sort of tool to help me with it, so I decided to build Omni. It's a Chrome Extension that allows you to manage your tabs, bookmarks, browser history, perform actions, and more, using a simple interface (similar to spotlight on Mac). It also adds a few new shortcuts to Chrome (and elevates existing ones) for muting, pinning a tab, etc.
The extension is open source too so anyone can contribute new actions and features - at the moment it is integrated with products like Figma, Notion, Linear... and I plan on adding more.
Comment · 4 years ago
Love ExtensionPay, so easy to use! I spent a while looking for ways to accept payments and most importantly handle subscriptions for Chrome Extensions, and everything felt like too much work. Super glad I came across your product, was very quick to integrate too and easy to check if a subscription is active or not. Been using it for my Carden extension, sadly no sales just yet :P