Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it was one of the first websites that could do so.
~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my standards. Got kids from all over the world creating stuff - some even very impressive. From my logs, I can even see some schools in the USA are using it in some lessons.
It's been a pain sometimes when troublemakers are hell-bent on making, well - trouble! Definitely build your moderation tools from the start folks.
It has a few ads sprinkled over it in a futile attempt to cover my server costs, but probably has a net cost to me of about £20/mo.
Genuinely love that kids and teachers use it - even my daughter is on there. It's been absolutely fascinating and heartwarming to see how some of the kids have developed their art and animation skills over time. Maybe one day it'll be bug-free and "finished".
No, never marketed it. Had vague ideas to do so - but thought I needed some more admin functionality first. Things like being able to white label it for a school, upload CSVs of student accounts, those sorts of things.
Those who do already use it must have just discovered it by search or word of mouth.
Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it was one of the first websites that could do so.
~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my standards. Got kids from all over the world creating stuff - some even very impressive. From my logs, I can even see some schools in the USA are using it in some lessons.
It's been a pain sometimes when troublemakers are hell-bent on making, well - trouble! Definitely build your moderation tools from the start folks.
It has a few ads sprinkled over it in a futile attempt to cover my server costs, but probably has a net cost to me of about £20/mo.
Genuinely love that kids and teachers use it - even my daughter is on there. It's been absolutely fascinating and heartwarming to see how some of the kids have developed their art and animation skills over time. Maybe one day it'll be bug-free and "finished".