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if you are using shadcn/ui or React in your projects, this one is for you!
how many animated visuals can you handle?
what’s the fastest way to make a landing page feel expensive?
not more copy
not another hero screenshot
motion that actually belongs to the page
these are the latest 25 animated visuals that I shipped and all are fully customizable
live preview → codedvisuals.com/visuals
use them instead of plain icons and abstract images
still cooking a lot more for September
astro design system next and agent skills already love these, i will show you soon
we are experiencing a major shift
losing sales is your signal
leave your old beliefs aside and move forward as fast as possible
there is no going back
things aren't going well
sales keep falling for everyone you know, and the themes market seems to be in bad shape
it's May 2025 and even mediocre AI models at the time seem to be used for UI generation instead of handcrafted designs
they are good enough
then this happens..
Google starts making changes to search, introducing AI features. I lose almost 60% of my organic traffic overnight
they say that SEO is officially dead, and my sales start disappearing as well
have been selling on Envato for more than 16 years, and sales start disappearing there as well
i have many ongoing freelance projects at the moment, but i still remain vigilant about the situation
boilerplate trend says goodbye, too
November 2025 and Anthropic releases Opus 4.5
people go nuts, and they are right, the model is really good
in the next 3 months that follow, i still remember seeing tons of posts from people looking for a job on X
everyone teaching code and selling courses sees their revenue vanish
developers question their life and career, designers try to prove there is value in their work, people say that the internet and the world are over, and others say that wait, so much work is coming our way because AI will enable it
things are looking bad
no one knows what's going on
what do i do with my online business?
1. first of all, say goodbye to my Bootstrap templates once and for all
2. continue freelance work
3. start taking my local agency more seriously since with AI i can now do more and support more people and projects at affordable prices
4. secondly, take Tailkit to the next level, integrating the whole library with agents through the MCP server and redesigning most of the available UI components
5. try to solve 2 major problems by also creating new design products for the AI era: a) animated visuals that enhance any landing and marketing pages and b) a design system for Astro and agents that helps me put together a solid foundation when building any static website
at the same time, i started building all the things I've always wanted with AI for my business, and i'm almost 95% there
i don't have all the answers, but things are looking better than before while we transition into the unknown
the only thing i know, and if you ask me, i would tell you, is that you have to keep moving and trying new things
we might not be able to know what the future looks like, but we can definitely build it
..and remember that if something you build takes time to even with ai but is helpful to you, then it holds value to other people as well
John Champ retweeted
A story almost every creator can relate to. Once, our Bootstrap and Next.js products were among Envato’s weekly bestsellers. Today, sales are barely alive.
All our marketplaces are struggling. We’re exploring new paths, but finding a real moat isn’t easy.
One thing you said really stayed with me 🙌
“If something takes time to build, even with AI, and genuinely helps you, chances are it holds value for others too.”
work in progress for the brand new animated visuals
perfect for shadcn and react hero sections
coming as a free update next week
things aren't going well
sales keep falling for everyone you know, and the themes market seems to be in bad shape
it's May 2025 and even mediocre AI models at the time seem to be used for UI generation instead of handcrafted designs
they are good enough
then this happens..
Google starts making changes to search, introducing AI features. I lose almost 60% of my organic traffic overnight
they say that SEO is officially dead, and my sales start disappearing as well
have been selling on Envato for more than 16 years, and sales start disappearing there as well
i have many ongoing freelance projects at the moment, but i still remain vigilant about the situation
boilerplate trend says goodbye, too
November 2025 and Anthropic releases Opus 4.5
people go nuts, and they are right, the model is really good
in the next 3 months that follow, i still remember seeing tons of posts from people looking for a job on X
everyone teaching code and selling courses sees their revenue vanish
developers question their life and career, designers try to prove there is value in their work, people say that the internet and the world are over, and others say that wait, so much work is coming our way because AI will enable it
things are looking bad
no one knows what's going on
what do i do with my online business?
1. first of all, say goodbye to my Bootstrap templates once and for all
2. continue freelance work
3. start taking my local agency more seriously since with AI i can now do more and support more people and projects at affordable prices
4. secondly, take Tailkit to the next level, integrating the whole library with agents through the MCP server and redesigning most of the available UI components
5. try to solve 2 major problems by also creating new design products for the AI era: a) animated visuals that enhance any landing and marketing pages and b) a design system for Astro and agents that helps me put together a solid foundation when building any static website
at the same time, i started building all the things I've always wanted with AI for my business, and i'm almost 95% there
i don't have all the answers, but things are looking better than before while we transition into the unknown
the only thing i know, and if you ask me, i would tell you, is that you have to keep moving and trying new things
we might not be able to know what the future looks like, but we can definitely build it
..and remember that if something you build takes time to even with ai but is helpful to you, then it holds value to other people as well
that's a great ai use case
i use questions like the following all the time:
1. how can this be improved, give me "x" ideas
2. give me "x" features ideas to improve "this"
even if most of them might not be good, there is always a couple of them that are great to explore further
if you’re into shadcn/ui, this is for you
the upcoming animated visuals for your hero sections are too good to miss
I fed them to buildkit and let my agents go wild
the results are next level
hero visuals are coming..
don't sleep on this if you're putting together astro static websites with agents
buildkit's first update is coming next week & will be huge
13 new blocks, a new dialog, smarter headers, and better ai skills for building your websites
→ astrobuildkit.com
what's in it:
→ pricing comparison
plans side by side, feature by feature
→ testimonials wall
a wall of quotes with star ratings
→ new headers
centered and split layouts, dropdown menus with icons, descriptions, and columns. also your hero can now sit under a transparent header that slides in as you scroll
→ changelog
write each release as an MDX file and get a clean, linkable changelog page which can include animated visuals and images
also in the update:
→ Closing CTA with an animated visual
→ Grouped and grid FAQs
→ Services grid
→ Location with map
→ Contact cards
→ Prose block for long pages
→ Accessible dialog with a video player
→ Header and footer border options
→ Smarter AI skills for building with Buildkit
all built with astro and tailwind, using shadcn theme tokens, in light and dark mode.
coming next week
follow along so you don't miss it
don't sleep on this if you're putting together astro static websites with agents
buildkit's first update is coming next week & will be huge
13 new blocks, a new dialog, smarter headers, and better ai skills for building your websites
→ astrobuildkit.com
what's in it:
→ pricing comparison
plans side by side, feature by feature
→ testimonials wall
a wall of quotes with star ratings
→ new headers
centered and split layouts, dropdown menus with icons, descriptions, and columns. also your hero can now sit under a transparent header that slides in as you scroll
→ changelog
write each release as an MDX file and get a clean, linkable changelog page which can include animated visuals and images
also in the update:
→ Closing CTA with an animated visual
→ Grouped and grid FAQs
→ Services grid
→ Location with map
→ Contact cards
→ Prose block for long pages
→ Accessible dialog with a video player
→ Header and footer border options
→ Smarter AI skills for building with Buildkit
all built with astro and tailwind, using shadcn theme tokens, in light and dark mode.
coming next week
follow along so you don't miss it
i'm solving the problem i had the past few years once and for all
I want to be able to create any landing page or business website I need in a few minutes
pill headers, full headers, contained footers, dark mode, responsiveness, toggles, changelog pages, legal pages, animated visuals, section designs, seo and anything I always worked on from scratch, now built under one powerful design system that looks and works great
i can finally do it!
i'm able to get a super solid foundation which I can update, customize and extend under specific rules with my agents
i can also go into the code and apply my frontend experience if it is needed since the code follows specific rules and I can always easily understand what's going on
this is just the beginning and i'm super hooked on it
buildkit for astro 1.1 update is coming soon and is huge..
..and also codedvisuals will soon introduce hero visuals
your hero sections will never be the same again
things will soon start getting really serious
codedvisuals - i'm looking at you
this looks beautiful! 😍
I've always wanted to build a point & click game. Finally made it happen.
Meet "Past": an adventure with a full story, cinematics, and dialogue. 52 rooms to explore, 13 characters to meet. Play it on desktop or in your browser.
Then I turned the whole workflow into AI agent skills, so you can build this kind of game with your own story and art 👇
> new-adventure: a working Godot game to start from, with inventory, saves, dialogs and a sample game that plays start to finish
> art-requests: every image comes from a prompt file you can trace
> look-gate: lock in your art style before you paint 50 rooms
> story-track: story, cast and puzzles planned before any art
> paint-room: one data file becomes a playable room
> painted-hero: your hero painted frame by frame over 3D pose guides
> skinned-npc: side characters animated from a single painting
> memory-reveals: flashbacks, cutscenes and big reveals
> voice-cast: every line voiced with ElevenLabs
> ship-check: test it and ship it to desktop and the web
All 10 skills: github.com/TheOrcDev/skills/…
You can play the game here: past-nu.vercel.app/
If you'd like to see more content like this, make sure to follow. I'll definitely create more 🔥
these are based on the same fluid animation i used in the plugin slot visual
really loved it and plan to use it in future ones as well
just pushed new beautiful animated illustrations for your landing pages
all with fluid animations bringing the count to over 1220 visual variations
→ api/rate-limit.tsx
→ charts/block-stack.tsx
→ connections/layer-stack.tsx
→ keyboard/isometric-keys.tsx
→ tasks/sort-lanes.tsx
update your skills and let your agents pull them and use them in any shadcn/ui project
also moved forward with documentation and design improvements to the app itself
the library is getting really amazing, so keep an eye on it, i'm just getting started
this shadcn and motion component library is getting huge
check it out, tons of animated visuals are already available
just pushed new beautiful animated illustrations for your landing pages
all with fluid animations bringing the count to over 1220 visual variations
→ api/rate-limit.tsx
→ charts/block-stack.tsx
→ connections/layer-stack.tsx
→ keyboard/isometric-keys.tsx
→ tasks/sort-lanes.tsx
update your skills and let your agents pull them and use them in any shadcn/ui project
also moved forward with documentation and design improvements to the app itself
the library is getting really amazing, so keep an eye on it, i'm just getting started
just pushed new beautiful animated illustrations for your landing pages
all with fluid animations bringing the count to over 1220 visual variations
→ api/rate-limit.tsx
→ charts/block-stack.tsx
→ connections/layer-stack.tsx
→ keyboard/isometric-keys.tsx
→ tasks/sort-lanes.tsx
update your skills and let your agents pull them and use them in any shadcn/ui project
also moved forward with documentation and design improvements to the app itself
the library is getting really amazing, so keep an eye on it, i'm just getting started
isometric keys animated visual showcasing keyboard shortcuts
wip, coming soon to codedvisuals shadcn/ui library
using shadcn/ui without codedvisuals should be a crime
i've put together 125 core animated visuals which can be used to create 1,180+ unique variations
you can use them to make your landing pages and websites feel expensive with simple prompts
→ codedvisuals.com
drop them into heroes, bentos, and feature sections
theme them with your shadcn tokens
let your AI agent assemble the whole thing in seconds or just use the MCP server to install what you need
i put extra care and love into this project and I'm making it even better every week
here's a sneak peek of the latest visuals i've created with many more coming soon
colin mcrae rally for pc was the first video game I've ever purchased
the funny thing is that my 1998 pc couldn't handle it and crashed on start up most probably due to my graphics card
i enjoyed it a few years later when I bought a better pc around 2001
do you remember your first video game purchase?
