FAQs
Who are you?
Who are you, that you would be here, enraptured with your findings? A designer, artist, lover of color, needer of answers. A photographer. A wedding planner. Cool. Nice to meet you.
No, dawg, I meant who are YOU...?
I am Croweykid.
Why does Colorbird Palettemania exist?
Once upon an internet 2.0, there used to be this one great app that was free. One of so many. The particular app did all the things Colorbird does, you know, in its cute little ye olde way. Then the internet became commercialied, profit-driven, little startups devoured by behemoth tech-monopolies until we found ourselves in this current post-singularity hellscape. One such monolith annexed the plucky little start up, removed it, then rolled out a nerfed branded version from behind a paywall that requires sign up and putting your data on their servers to train their bots, with zero ability to ever delete it, zero governmental oversight on your own personal data, zero regulations on what is ever done with it. Plus, it didn't do all the cool things that I wanted it to do, even back in the day, I was looking in the rearview mirror with nostalgia goggles on, so I thought - hey, we live in the future, let's vibe code this vision turbospeed. Let's build this skycastle. Let's own the means of production & provide it to the people on our own server. And lo', here we are.
You said data stays local - what do you mean?
Your computer builds website locally using temporary caches on your own hard drive, which build the live website you actively see in something called the DOM. The DOM is generated locally on your machine, based on principles/algorithms on my server. If I allowed users to save to my server, I'd need to add a firewall for that particular task, and you'd need to trust my server not to store and/or abuse your sensitive photos or data. But the way this app is set up, it never leaves your computer. It's stored in your browser cache. If you clear your cache, or reformat your computer, it will eventually go away. That's the only downside - so save your work! I built a bunch of export tools to make that turnkey for you.
I don't care about privacy, I don't have anything to hide. Why would I use this?
Because it's exquisite, regardless. I think it's one of the better such sites. After over a decade of graphic design, art direction and work in other aesthetic fields, I have a sense of what was compelling and arguably needed. :P Anyway, you do you.