I'm the Founder at https://shaders.com. Not frustrating at all, and Basement is an excellent team. Shader Lab looks like a solid tool for exploration and and creating effects, nothing slop about it (although I love the word "slopfork", that's new).
Our platform goes above and beyond that with a large collection of Pro presets and a unique capability in our component-based approach with reactive props, and of course broader framework support. All that, and our new MCP workflow for having your agent prompt effects, and we feel confident in our place in the market.
Would recommend checking out both Shader Lab AND shaders.com to anyone interested in creative shader effects for the web.
There are dozens of DCCs where you have a UI where you stack things (over-compositing, bottom to top).
And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters.
If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter is a 'slopfork' of <insert any DCC that had this pattern and existed before and has whatever anyone may consider 'less sloppy'>.
so does Photoshop and thousand other visual editing tools. Hardly a reason to claim it to be a copy.
Also "slopfork" seems harsh considering it seems limited, but well designed imo.
I'm the Founder at https://shaders.com. Not frustrating at all, and Basement is an excellent team. Shader Lab looks like a solid tool for exploration and and creating effects, nothing slop about it (although I love the word "slopfork", that's new).
Our platform goes above and beyond that with a large collection of Pro presets and a unique capability in our component-based approach with reactive props, and of course broader framework support. All that, and our new MCP workflow for having your agent prompt effects, and we feel confident in our place in the market.
Would recommend checking out both Shader Lab AND shaders.com to anyone interested in creative shader effects for the web.
Ah nice! I enjoyed trying out your product when it was launched which called this app to mind. Commendable attitude!
I'm not your target audience, but why do you gate your playground?
Went to try it and then gave up after it asked me to sign up/log in
Mostly due to account-tied permissions, such as asset uploads (images, video, etc) and for auto-saving/versioning.
It's entirely free to try, build, etc with an account - you only need a paid license when you're ready to export/deploy
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There are dozens of DCCs where you have a UI where you stack things (over-compositing, bottom to top).
And when you select one of these things you can change the parameters.
If this is a 'slopfork' of shaders.com then the latter is a 'slopfork' of <insert any DCC that had this pattern and existed before and has whatever anyone may consider 'less sloppy'>.
OTTOMH: AfterEffects, Cavalry, Substance Designer's Layer panel, Tixl's layered textures, ...
Honest question: If my web browser struggles to even render the preview, why in god's name would I put any of these presets on a production webpage?
Please, don't. I don't want the same starting to happen on different sites...
They look nothing alike except they are both about shaders.
Could you explain why you think this is a slopfork?
Did you try the shader.com shader editor where you stack shaders and effects in layers? V similar approach!
so does Photoshop and thousand other visual editing tools. Hardly a reason to claim it to be a copy. Also "slopfork" seems harsh considering it seems limited, but well designed imo.
Maybe a little harsh yes. But compare these screenshots of the two products/features
https://imgur.com/a/41BybD1
I see a deep tree and a shallow tree in the two screenshots, representative of entirely different approaches.
What would it take for you to ever admit that you are wrong.
"slopfork" nice
I heard the term used on the shoptalk podcast about cloudflare slopforking wordpress!
https://shoptalkshow.com/709/
Cloudflare really doesn't seem to have made slop or a fork.
I think it’s a jokey term for when you use ai to copy an existing project
No matter what, it's better than "vibecoding." Ugh.
Welcome to the world of zero cost software we were promised
Indeed we prefer the world where only deep-pocketed entrenched monopolies can do this.