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Just shipped my side-project: CSS shape-outside playground. Feedback desired

Hi everyone,

I just uploaded this side-project:

https://olivierforget.net/css-shape-outside/

I would love your feedback. Was it easy enough to play with and sort out how it works?

Do you think I should make the intro screen much more to the point? That's what I'm thinking right now. It's way too long.

Thank-you for your feedback!

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    The tool is pretty fun to play with, but it took me a good minute to get that I have to close the modal window to get there. Maybe make it more obvious.

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      Got it. Thank-you.

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    Congrats on launching this!

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      Thank-you Tekeste!

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    I think you should focus more on "getting started" than "explaining how to get started".

    I would:

    • Land the user on a page with a beautiful custom CSS shape working
    • Use this page to cover some of the basic questions like - responsive/dependencies
    • Prompt them to customize the shape on the page
    • Offer access to a gallery of examples
    • Treat each example like a step in a tutorial, with pop-ups saying, "Try this next"
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      Interesting ideas, thanks. I am definitely going to offer ready-to-go examples.

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    Boy that sure ain't responsive! 😂

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      My apologies, it's definitely not meant to be responsive! But I should make it such that you can read something even if you're on a phone.

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        Haha, for sure. I don't see myself using this on anything but a computer...but many of your potential users might first visit from a phone as they come across it.

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          It turns out only about 15% of visitors were on mobile, which is less than I would have expected. However I'm still going to make sure they get a better experience going forwards.