Yes, yes, yes, I know how much you all “love” long videos 🤓

But I finally finished the first version of this little Rive experiment — and if you’re too lazy to watch, you can just poke around yourself: ↗ here

Started with an animated hand

Then it turned into a small bilingual web app with animated hands, key highlights, translation mode, learning mode, custom skins, achievements, and a Russian ↔ English dictionary

The main idea was simple:

Can Rive be used not just for animation, but as a visual engine for interactive web apps?

After building this, my answer is definitely yes.

@Rive handles the living visual system 🫰🤌

JavaScript handles the logic 🫠

ChatGPT helped me a lot as a coding and debugging partner 🫡

And somewhere between all of that, this became a small interactive product that feels more like a toy than a usual language tool.

Try it here :)

Once I wrap up my current major project, I’m going to try implementing all these mechanics in Framer. I’d really love to pull this off, but so far I’ve only worked with websites in Framer—never web apps. Is that even a thing?

Yes, yes, yes, I know how much you all “love” long videos 🤓

But I finally finished the first version of this little Rive experiment — and if you’re too lazy to watch, you can just poke around yourself: ↗ here

Started with an animated hand

Then it turned into a small bilingual web app with animated hands, key highlights, translation mode, learning mode, custom skins, achievements, and a Russian ↔ English dictionary

The main idea was simple:

Can Rive be used not just for animation, but as a visual engine for interactive web apps?

After building this, my answer is definitely yes.

@Rive handles the living visual system 🫰🤌

JavaScript handles the logic 🫠

ChatGPT helped me a lot as a coding and debugging partner 🫡

And somewhere between all of that, this became a small interactive product that feels more like a toy than a usual language tool.

Try it here :)

Once I wrap up my current major project, I’m going to try implementing all these mechanics in Framer. I’d really love to pull this off, but so far I’ve only worked with websites in Framer—never web apps. Is that even a thing?