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The Frontend Agency

Mads Stoumann on August 09, 2021

After 7 years working as a Technical Director for Valtech, I've decided to go freelance … again (I was self-employeed for 15 years before Valtech)!...
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GrahamTheDev

p.s. animated shapes with opacity and random paths as a background for some visual interest...where have I seen that before - as you can imagine I am a real fan of that feature you have added, I had fun fiddling with them (turning the speed up max and fiddling the shapes nearly looks like Conway's Game of Life!).

I know it is WIP, but just in case you forgot prefers-reduced-motion doesn't seem to auto switch animations off when the page loads.

I look forward to seeing the next release and more of the site, looks great!

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Mads Stoumann

Thanks, had a lot of fun creating the visuals. The “blobs” are SVG paths currently, but I might look into Houdini Paint API later. I'm aware of several issues!

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pypdeveloper • Edited

Wow, great progress. I can't wait to see how the final website will turn out. Although I don't need frontend consulting as of now, I might need it later. I hope that some if not the whole website will be open-source.

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you! The site is hosted on GitHub Pages, maybe they had some maintenance when you checked? Working fine now, just checked.

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pypdeveloper

Yeah working.

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GrahamTheDev

Good luck and I am glad you decided to build the website to sell the geometric / generated art, I do think you could earn a decent “base salary” from that quite easily that takes all of the pressure off freelancing!

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you – and, yes, I hope so!

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Rob OLeary

Good luck with the new venture!

I have a similar aspiration for creating a web shop with generative art. I was looking at Monica Dinculescu's website recently and thought I would like to do something similar when I had a few products to stick up.

One thing I am curious about with your approach, if you publish the app to generate the art, do you think people will just export an image and go their own way? Most of what I have seen from people is that they curate the art that they sell. Tyler Hobbs is another example of this.

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you! I haven't decided yet - maybe I'll show a low res version in the shop, and then generate high-res for print, based on the users configuration/parameters.

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Sebastian Daza

Excellent and very funny website, I thank you for sharing it, it inspired me a lot.
I wish you many successes in your adventure

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you!

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Alvaro Montoro

That is a neat site. I really like how it looks and bookmarked it. I look forward to seeing how it goes, and may steal borrow some ideas for future projects :)

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you — and borrow all you want!

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Cindy Kandie

Amazing work. Am inspired 🔥

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you!

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Aahad Aazar

Hello Mads!

I must say you have done a fine job.

Is there any way I can connect with you? Any email would be nice. TIA

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Mads Stoumann

Thank you! You can write to me on LinkedIn!