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Gift

Animated 3D gifts you send as a link.

2026公開中LiveWeb

Cover screen from Gift

Summary

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.

Overview概要

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.

Challenges課題

A shared link that previews as a grey box does not get opened

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.

What I did

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.

3D scenes and server rendering do not mix

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.

What I did

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.

Results成果

  • Per-gift link previews without server-rendering WebGL.

  • Voice notes and open-notification emails, with no account required.

Colophon奥付

役割Role
Solo
年Year
2026
状態Status
Live
分野Category
Web
道具Built with
Next.js 16React Three FiberdreiConvexTailwind CSSTurbopackReact Compiler
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