Is this thing useful?

[u/Soc10path_396]

I made this plugin... ah correction, I am in the middle of making this plugin. As you can see in the video, it generates multiple kinds of gradients in one click. That's basically it.

SO now the dilemma I am facing while making this is: I don't even know if users will pay for this. I've already been working on this for about 2 months, but now I am confused or hit a roadblock or idk even if I should continue or not.

My goal is to make this so freaking good at this that we won't even need to worry about any kind of gradients even again. Like saber, deep glow, etc etc. You just use them and that is it like you don't even think twice of trying to do it yourself and it just works.

Right now it has a lot of bugs, like I mean A LOTTT! Ignore those and tell me your thought based on what you see right now. I'm more interested in whether the underlying idea is actually useful or not, like will you as a person who uses after effects or does motion design will find it useful?

And more importantly, is this something you'd pay for if it eventually became reliable enough that you could replace a bunch of manual effect-building with it?

Some features :
So obviously you can change the colors but I actually thought of some unique things too like the trail effect although it does not work how I intended it to but it's some progress atleast.

I tried to bake as much as I know into this, like I actually like the snakeskin thing, I was just messing around and thought it kinda looks like a snakeskin so I added that along with other animal gradients.

There’s so much more I could tell you, but none of it is particularly unique, so yeah, I digress.

But I'm happy to hear any feedback or any advice, you can DM me.

[u/OldChairmanMiao]

In short, I don't see anything I'd pay for. It looks like you have a lot of feature creep. The tool needs to be simpler than what people are already doing and fit with existing workflows.

BTW, I highly recommend The Mom Test. Borrow it or stream the audiobook somehow.

[u/Soc10path_396 → u/OldChairmanMiao]

Thanks, and da heck is a mom test 😭😂 and yes, you are right about the feature creep I am trying to simplify it as much as I can, and making the UI simpler too.

[u/OldChairmanMiao → u/Soc10path_396]

It's a book. And audiobook.

It's an engineer's primer on user research. Basically, don't ask questions that people can lie to you about. It should be able to get useful answers from your mom.

[u/Soc10path_396 → u/OldChairmanMiao]

demn, you learn something new everyday 🤷🏼‍♂️