I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

by beingmani • 1 year ago

82 40 1 year ago

Nice, just spent 2 mins popping.

It's slightly annoying that the sound effect seems to contain some initial silence. The sounds don't align with the clicks!

ascorbic• 1 year ago

Speed of sound, clearly. I estimate the confetti is about 50 meters away.

mihaaly3• 1 year ago

This may be more satisfactory for you: https://popcat.click/

billpg• 1 year ago

But why?

xanderlewis2• 1 year ago

I refer you to the title of the submission, my good man.

dailykoder• 1 year ago

Because so many people on here talk about how good the "old web" used to be. This is it. This is peak old web. Maybe a bit too polished, but still. Pointless and fun, because fun is fun.

dist-epoch• 1 year ago

Poke the bunny

mackopes• 1 year ago

Did anyone get a faster click speed than 45ms?

saagarjha• 1 year ago

I got 2ms but I think this is just lagging in Safari

latexr• 1 year ago

At first I was getting 46, then got it down to 32, then 26, then 11. I stopped trying after that, don’t want to waste more than a minute on this.

For reference, this was on mobile and it did cause the screen to zoom in and out on occasion due to the fast double taps.

Fluorescence• 1 year ago

I seem to be capped at 98 ms (FF/chrome ubuntu 24.04).

RickS• 1 year ago

38, but only by tabbing to the button and finger drumming the enter key

xnorswap• 1 year ago

Space key also works, so you can have one hand tapping enter and space along with the other rolling the mouse key.

yungporko• 1 year ago

i got 16ms on mobile by laying it flat on my desk and spamming with both index fingers

neilv• 1 year ago

Needs an observability dashboard for insights.

thih9• 1 year ago

For those who want to experiment with different click speed values without clicking, web console code that clicks twice with a set timeout:

    setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000); setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1200);

For those who want to test the limits of your device and your neighbors (100 clicks at once, 1s from now):

    for (var i = 0; i < 100; i++) { setTimeout(() => document.getElementsByTagName('button')[0].click(), 1000);}

mft_• 1 year ago

100-200 at one worked reasonably well; 10,000 was definitely a problem :)

nottorp• 1 year ago

Pretty. Do bubble wrap next please!

mihaaly3• 1 year ago

Not bubble wrap, but comparable: https://thezen.zone/switch

tr888• 1 year ago

But where is the AI?

esskay• 1 year ago

Needs a share on bluesky link ;)

khazhoux• 1 year ago

For a Linux user, this seems quite trivial to replicate using any kernel since mid-2023, with lower latency and lower security exposure.

Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

sevg• 1 year ago

Also, why have this as a hosted service when confetti popping can be spun up on a local deployment for a fraction of the cost?

So that the author can get donations while piggybacking off a confetti library that other people wrote.

nathanappere• 1 year ago

I laughed

FireInsight• 1 year ago

You should also add a CPS counter

adontz• 1 year ago

Thank you. I really needed that in my life today.

franze• 1 year ago

no reason pitch: if you like no reason software, a weekend ago i build snake game in an lsd-pentagon for no good reason https://pentasnake.franzai.com/

its-summertime2• 1 year ago

Seems to use https://github.com/catdad/canvas-confetti but the license was not included in any form?

taikahessu3• 1 year ago

This is sad. Especially when you incorporate a personal donation feature, very sad.

Edit: This is what the actual post should've been. Here is HN post for the actual script itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40156330

nickthegreek2• 1 year ago

Credit is given on the about page with a link to Canvas Confetti github.

its-summertime2• 1 year ago

Since it is a single page application, its harder to trawl through its history, however: https://web.archive.org/web/20250130094532jm_/https://popthe...

Searching through the prior index file for "Credits" or the such, yields no results

React et al is credited somewhat however.

taikahessu3• 1 year ago

Wow, I didn't even notice or realize it was a link!

Edit: it was probably added afterwards and donations were removed.

cardosof• 1 year ago

This is what the internet is for! (it's for all the other useful, valuable, life-saving stuff too)

mihaaly3• 1 year ago

Should be submitted here: https://theuselessweb.com/

jeanlucas• 1 year ago

Flagging it for:

- just a website to ask donations

- didn't give credit for the open source code that it is required by license

This is not a good behavior and should not be on HN

shaunpud• 1 year ago

Me too, lost a few hours sleep on this one.

nickthegreek2• 1 year ago

Did it get updated over the last 2 hours? I see credit on the About page and no donation link.

taikahessu3• 1 year ago

Yeah, there was no About page before and the donation link is now removed too.

Molitor5901• 1 year ago

Ha! That brought a smile to my face. Thank you.

I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason

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