Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder

Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder by throwaway333445 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @01:10PM (#41436960)

I wonder if there is ever a world where the websites themselves are just WebGL, and no one has to worry about CSS ever again. Ignoring a11y and CPU/GPU usage, that is...

Edit/addition: Congrats on your product! Always great to see a high-quality, pure software project get funded and realized. If I ever do YC (non-ivy so probably not in the cards) I'd probably do something like this.

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Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder by izakfritz on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @01:25PM (#41437114)

We dream about this all the time. Unfortunately, it breaks too much default behavior like browser extensions, password managers, SEO...

Maybe one day :)

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Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder by throwaway333445 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @02:05PM (#41437446)

I guess there'd need to be an API for extensions to treat WebGL rendered text as synthetic DOM node. Maybe WebGL apps expose and update a "virtual DOM" that represents how extensions/Google should interpret what is rendered...

Repaint might be in some sense the bridge, though!

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Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder by samstave on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @10:31PM (#41441319)

Web.GPT.GL_AgI bot proxy to handle such pedestrian digital quibbles, indeed ;-)

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Re:Show HN: Repaint – a WebGL based website builder by benshumaker0 on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @01:30PM (#41437147)

I went to a non-ivy school and dropped out. There's always hope :)

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