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Animated 3D gifts you send as a link.
| Role | Solo | Year | 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Status | Live | Room | Web |
| Built with | Next.js 16 · React Three Fiber · drei · Convex · Tailwind CSS · Turbopack · React Compiler | ||
| Where to find it | Visit the siteSource | ||
1 · General notes
Pick a gift, record a voice note, send a link. The recipient opens a 3D scene that unwraps in the browser. Free, no accounts, and the sender gets an email when it is opened.
A greeting sent as a link is usually a static page with a name interpolated into it. This one is a real 3D scene: the gift sits there wrapped, and opening it is an animation rather than a page load.
Senders can attach a voice note, and get an email when the gift is actually opened, which turns out to be the part people care about most.
2 · Challenges
DETAIL 1
The problem
The entire distribution model is someone pasting the link into a chat. A client-rendered 3D app gives crawlers an empty shell, so the preview is blank and the link looks like spam.
As built
Crawlers hitting a gift URL are rewritten to a server function that returns per-gift Open Graph tags, while real visitors get the full 3D app. The preview is correct without server-rendering a WebGL scene.
DETAIL 2
The problem
React Three Fiber needs a canvas and a browser; server rendering it produces hydration mismatches and a flash of broken layout before the scene appears.
As built
The app tree renders client-only behind a mounted gate, so it behaves like a single-page app while the routes around it stay server-rendered. Fighting the framework here would have cost more than accepting the boundary.
3 · Results
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