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Brand and design for tech companies - https://t.co/UX0nwuKWXz | Creator of https://t.co/tsD7zYVvAu, https://t.co/E4p94b7Nwq.

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Meet the new look of Cluely. ~1,200 hours, and 3 months of teamwork dedicated to the exploration of the look, design, motion, and development of the new website for the most viral startup. The main challenge was to achieve a "generalized" look while having something special, so the site could be practical and efficient for any type of audience. I hope we succeeded with this. Stay tuned for a massive project breakdown later this month on YT. PS: Roy is a great guy and super easy to work with. The best client ever.

Meet the new look of Cluely. ~1,200 hours, and 3 months of teamwork dedicated to the exploration of the look, design, motion, and development of the new website for the most viral startup. The main challenge was to achieve a "generalized" look while having something special, so the site could be practical and efficient for any type of audience. I hope we succeeded with this. Stay tuned for a massive project breakdown later this month on YT. PS: Roy is a great guy and super easy to work with. The best client ever.

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Codex to Telegram. Infinite loops. Completion checks. All available in Loopndroll. Powered by Codex Hooks. Open source. Perfect for running long-running tasks over the weekend.

Codex to Telegram. Infinite loops. Completion checks. All available in Loopndroll. Powered by Codex Hooks. Open source. Perfect for running long-running tasks over the weekend.

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Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees the problem with that video. 2025 @rivian Google Maps integration announcement.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who sees the problem with that video. 2025 @rivian Google Maps integration announcement.

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Get beautiful text animations. We built a hand-crafted collection of text animations and wrapped them as a SKILL for your AI agent. Use it with Remotion, Motion, GSAP, WAAPI, or any animation library. It comes with clear animation specs - pacing, curves, transitions - so your output looks great from the first prompt. Install it with: npx skills add pixel-point/animate-text --skill animate-text Use it /animate-text apply soft-blur-in to hero section text

Get beautiful text animations. We built a hand-crafted collection of text animations and wrapped them as a SKILL for your AI agent. Use it with Remotion, Motion, GSAP, WAAPI, or any animation library. It comes with clear animation specs - pacing, curves, transitions - so your output looks great from the first prompt. Install it with: npx skills add pixel-point/animate-text --skill animate-text Use it /animate-text apply soft-blur-in to hero section text

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We charged $89,775 for this new Huly landing page. Ask me anything. Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion. We did Branding, Design, Development and Motion.

We charged $89,775 for this new Huly landing page. Ask me anything. Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion. We did Branding, Design, Development and Motion.

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No ads. Free. Open source. Download any video from YouTube/X/Instagram and trim it quickly - all in one app.

No ads. Free. Open source. Download any video from YouTube/X/Instagram and trim it quickly - all in one app.

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Since many of you asked yesterday: Unkey paid us $90k for this rebrand and design. If you think that’s a lot, it really isn’t once you see how much was delivered. Good branding is not just a logo and a few gradients - it’s a huge system built to help a brand evolve across materials without relying on the same visual trick over and over. That’s exactly the kind of system we build for companies. And while today you’ll probably see another round of scary posts about design being eaten by GPT Image 2.0, remember: there are still companies willing to pay a lot for branding done by humans with taste. Those humans may use AI. AI may help speed things up. But it’s still just a tool - and like any tool, you need to learn how to use it.

Since many of you asked yesterday: Unkey paid us $90k for this rebrand and design. If you think that’s a lot, it really isn’t once you see how much was delivered. Good branding is not just a logo and a few gradients - it’s a huge system built to help a brand evolve across materials without relying on the same visual trick over and over. That’s exactly the kind of system we build for companies. And while today you’ll probably see another round of scary posts about design being eaten by GPT Image 2.0, remember: there are still companies willing to pay a lot for branding done by humans with taste. Those humans may use AI. AI may help speed things up. But it’s still just a tool - and like any tool, you need to learn how to use it.

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If you think this is just another silly demo made with AI, read this post. You might change your mind, because this demo is about MATH. What you see on the screen is not a render from Blender (obviously, it’s not that good). It’s a three.js app built with Toolcraft. Available on the web and rendered in real time(link in the comments). But Blender still has a lot to do with it. Blender has Geometry Nodes - a powerful node-based system for creating and manipulating procedural geometry. In other words, it’s math. And math is a universal language. And who do you think is pretty good at math? >>> AI. Now you can download or buy Blender files from marketplaces, and when they contain Geometry Nodes for procedural animations, objects, surfaces, or effects, you can transfer that logic to the web. Make it real-time, make it interactive. Materials are a separate story, of course. They can still suck unless you use the right tricks: PBR, HDRIs, material blending, displacement, and faked surface relief. So why is Blender important here? Blender is open source, and many tools around it are open source too. An AI trained on their code. That means it can translate the math from one environment to another quite accurately. If you’ve been struggling to reproduce some idea with AI that you had in your head or seen in some references, and it has something to do with Geometry Nodes, and you can find that idea or a close one in the Blender ecosystem - it means you can transfer it to the web. Thank me later.

If you think this is just another silly demo made with AI, read this post. You might change your mind, because this demo is about MATH. What you see on the screen is not a render from Blender (obviously, it’s not that good). It’s a three.js app built with Toolcraft. Available on the web and rendered in real time(link in the comments). But Blender still has a lot to do with it. Blender has Geometry Nodes - a powerful node-based system for creating and manipulating procedural geometry. In other words, it’s math. And math is a universal language. And who do you think is pretty good at math? >>> AI. Now you can download or buy Blender files from marketplaces, and when they contain Geometry Nodes for procedural animations, objects, surfaces, or effects, you can transfer that logic to the web. Make it real-time, make it interactive. Materials are a separate story, of course. They can still suck unless you use the right tricks: PBR, HDRIs, material blending, displacement, and faked surface relief. So why is Blender important here? Blender is open source, and many tools around it are open source too. An AI trained on their code. That means it can translate the math from one environment to another quite accurately. If you’ve been struggling to reproduce some idea with AI that you had in your head or seen in some references, and it has something to do with Geometry Nodes, and you can find that idea or a close one in the Blender ecosystem - it means you can transfer it to the web. Thank me later.

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Good luck getting this level of quality and precision from AI. Made in Blender.

Good luck getting this level of quality and precision from AI. Made in Blender.

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If you're a designer or a design engineer, you might often end up building micro apps for your creative workflow - branding assets, animations, WebGL effects. BUT to make the app itself look pretty takes quite a lot of work. Laggy controls, weird dropdowns, ugly sliders, partially working image uploaders, slow canvas. We're building a solution for that - a free and open-source micro app template(+ skills/agents.md) for designers. Here is the first teaser of components that will be available for you out of the box.

If you're a designer or a design engineer, you might often end up building micro apps for your creative workflow - branding assets, animations, WebGL effects. BUT to make the app itself look pretty takes quite a lot of work. Laggy controls, weird dropdowns, ugly sliders, partially working image uploaders, slow canvas. We're building a solution for that - a free and open-source micro app template(+ skills/agents.md) for designers. Here is the first teaser of components that will be available for you out of the box.

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Our recent design project is live. Meet the new look of Search Party. 3 months of work - branding, design, development, and motion. Powered, as usual, by Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

Our recent design project is live. Meet the new look of Search Party. 3 months of work - branding, design, development, and motion. Powered, as usual, by Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

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While working on our upcoming YouTube video, we ended up using Remotion a lot. So much that it probably deserves its own video. A bunch of the B-roll was made by animating quick Figma designs with code, without opening After Effects at all. Just Figma → Codex → Video.

While working on our upcoming YouTube video, we ended up using Remotion a lot. So much that it probably deserves its own video. A bunch of the B-roll was made by animating quick Figma designs with code, without opening After Effects at all. Just Figma → Codex → Video.

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We're hiring! Join the Pixel Point creative team. We design and build world-class brands and sites. Open roles: - Brand, Web, Graphic Designers - Motion Designer - Creative Director - Frontend Developer Reply with your best work or submit your application via the link in bio.

We're hiring! Join the Pixel Point creative team. We design and build world-class brands and sites. Open roles: - Brand, Web, Graphic Designers - Motion Designer - Creative Director - Frontend Developer Reply with your best work or submit your application via the link in bio.

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I spent a day playing with GPT-5.6-Sol, and I can now say with much more confidence that it hasn’t improved at design tasks. I haven’t noticed any meaningful improvement in its coding capabilities, either. Maybe it's just in the tasks I gave it. However, I finished an app we started building on a stream yesterday and brought it close to the original idea I had in mind. It’s incredibly easy to build tools like this these days. I basically gave Codex a batch of editorial grid examples, then combined those layouts with formula-based pattern generation. A few prompts and some polishing, and you have something that can serve as a basic brand identity system.

I spent a day playing with GPT-5.6-Sol, and I can now say with much more confidence that it hasn’t improved at design tasks. I haven’t noticed any meaningful improvement in its coding capabilities, either. Maybe it's just in the tasks I gave it. However, I finished an app we started building on a stream yesterday and brought it close to the original idea I had in mind. It’s incredibly easy to build tools like this these days. I basically gave Codex a batch of editorial grid examples, then combined those layouts with formula-based pattern generation. A few prompts and some polishing, and you have something that can serve as a basic brand identity system.

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hero section bts. made in blender.

hero section bts. made in blender.

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Our first release of the year. Meet new invertase​.io website. 3d made in #b3d + AE, the rest in Figma. Stack: Next.js / Tailwind CSS / Sanity CMS ~3 months – Branding / Design / Development

Our first release of the year. Meet new invertase​.io website. 3d made in #b3d + AE, the rest in Figma. Stack: Next.js / Tailwind CSS / Sanity CMS ~3 months – Branding / Design / Development

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Got fired while working on a new Warcraft site, so we repurposed all the assets for the new Huly pricing page. Check live 👇

Got fired while working on a new Warcraft site, so we repurposed all the assets for the new Huly pricing page. Check live 👇

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Just another vibe-coded app in Codex for the branding project we've been working on. It's quicker to code it up, capture the screen, or embed it on the site than doing the whole thing in AE.

Just another vibe-coded app in Codex for the branding project we've been working on. It's quicker to code it up, capture the screen, or embed it on the site than doing the whole thing in AE.

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Insane 1,000 hours of team work we put into this new Neon Postgres home page (Design, Development, Motion). Do you like it? Every single graphic designed fully in Figma. Interactive animations made in Rive. Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes design stories.

Insane 1,000 hours of team work we put into this new Neon Postgres home page (Design, Development, Motion). Do you like it? Every single graphic designed fully in Figma. Interactive animations made in Rive. Stay tuned for behind-the-scenes design stories.

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Introducing Aval - a new open source format for interactive video on the web. It has a built-in state machine, frame accurate transitions, and packed alpha transparency. This is probably the craziest thing I’ve ever built with Codex. I’d been dreaming about this technology for years. Before AI, building it would have taken months of work. I could never justify that investment for a noncommercial open source project. Then, a little over a year ago, Airbnb created Lava for almost exactly the same purpose. That gave me hope. But Lava was never released as open source. So I decided to build my own, with AI. Aval comes with a compiler and a web renderer. Together, they give you: • a deterministic state graph - named states, authored triggers, and routing where the latest trigger wins. • frame accurate routes with transitions that begin on authored content frames using portals, finishes, cuts, and reversals. • small file size and low CPU overhead, perfect for small icons designed and animated in Blender. • seekless loops so the decoder timeline keeps moving forward across loop seams instead of seeking. • packed alpha transparency. transparent prerendered motion composited with WebGL2. • a web native runtime: decoding with WebCodecs and rendering with WebGL2. • progressive fallback: Host-owned fallback markup remains available for unsupported and reduced motion contexts. Now it exists, it’s open source, and it’s available today as a technical preview. I’ll be polishing it further over the next few days.

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