Tossed $30 on a CSS gradient generator that was basically a color picker in a trench coat

Found this tool that promised procedural noise patterns via gradients, paid the $30, and all it did was spit out two-color linear blends I could have coded in 5 seconds has anyone else fallen for these overhyped CSS utilities?

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veraramirez23d ago

Devil's advocate here - $30 is actually a bargain if you're charging clients for a polished UI tool that saves even five minutes of fiddling with custom CSS. @holly47 hit the nail on the head about copy-paste code being the real value, but I'd argue that even a basic color picker with a gradient preview is worth it if you're not a dev and just want something that works. The overselling is annoying for sure, but the tool itself is fine for what it does.

holly4724d ago

A $30 color picker in a trench coat, I get the frustration. But I actually think that kind of tool has a place. Not everyone who messes with CSS wants to code a gradient from scratch. Sometimes you just need a quick visual way to pick two colors and preview how they blend without typing out hex codes or percentages. The shady part is how they market procedural noise patterns when it's just a basic linear gradient. That's on them for overselling it. Still, I've bought way worse things for $30 and at least this one spat out working code I could copy paste.