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Ben Lang

Cool Backgrounds - Create fast, one-of-a-kind hero images for blogs & websites

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Cool Backgrounds is a collection of tools to create compelling, colorful images for blogs, social media, and websites. Beyond backgrounds, the images generated can be used as πŸ–₯ desktop wallpapers or cropped for πŸ“± mobile wallpapers.

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Moe Amaya
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Hola Product Hunt, Cool Backgrounds is a curated list of javascript libraries that lets you create a one-of-a-kind image for blog posts, website backgrounds or to use as a phone wallpaper. πŸ“” The "Background" While finishing up another side project CSS Gradient (https://www.producthunt.com/post...), I unexpectedly noticed the popularity of free wallpaper and background image websites. As useful as static images are, what was missing was a tool that enables non-technical folks to use all the emerging javascript libraries to create unique images of their own. So Cool Backgrounds was born πŸ’₯. πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ Maker Bio My name is Moeβ€”I’m a Mexican designer trained at MIT and based in San Francisco. I created Cool Backgrounds because I ran into the problem first hand of wanting a compelling image for another side project and ended up using javascript to create it, but damn was it painful. Not anymore 😊
Ben Lang
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Hunter
Making the web a better place day by day, thanks Moe. What's the next one?
Moe Amaya
Maker
@benln πŸ™ for hunting! Have a few more features to add to CoolBG but the next project is related to open graph visualization, think: a site that previews (and let’s you edit) how you look across all social channels. I’ve been wanting it forever!
Andy Parkhills
@benln @moeamaya This is why I love Product Hunt so that we are all able to find sites like this one.
Hunter Owens
I LOVE this! Just made myself a beautiful new iPhone wallpaper.
Creative Tim

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Love it <3

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No cons

Ben Lang
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Hunter

Particularly useful for social media header photos.

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Simple to use

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None

Atta ⚑️

Super cooooooool πŸ‘πŸ‘

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Just love it ❀️️

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None

Austin Fernald
Cool ☺️
Darin Ji
Only SVG？
Rakitha Perera

Creative idea and cheers!!

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Awesome

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Add some more backgrounds

Bash
Hi @moeamaya I'm wondering if you'll have any information about the copywriting, or terms of use? For now it's all completely free to use? I'm wondering if this could be a tool I can share with some folks who might be designing websites for commercial use
Moe Amaya
Maker
@bashbashuh Thanks for the question. I need to make this more clear, but everything will be CC0 licensed, and I believe for more interactive images you actually own the copyright. But I need to double check on that. Cheers!
Andy Parkhills
@moeamaya This is a perfect utility and a definite time saver!
Elijah Murray
Super useful, and I don't have to sign up or anything! One feature that would be cool is automatically generating them, hosting them on a CDN, and allowing us to reference the assets directly without having to download the graphic to our projects.