Show HN: MockRocket – 3D app mockups and animations in the browser (opens in new tab)

Agreed–data processing on the user's device can certainly be abused in some cases, but when it's used right you can build some pretty amazing experiences with modern web APIs.

Closely following the development of WebGPU as well–I think that's going to enable a whole new class of web apps with serious graphics and compute power.

Definitely can't compete with those nice photorealistic reflections in Blender, but it's cool to see how close you can get with some of the other aspects in a pretty short amount of time!

2 devices + camera + laptop screen angle + depth of field blur, all animated in the same shot!

There are definitely some trade offs with doing it client side and even some nasty graphics driver bugs across devices (especially Intel integrated GPUs) that have taken quite a lot of work to figure out. For the most part it's worked out though and renders have been pretty consistent, both in my testing and from what customers have shared with me.

I do actually have server rendering built as well, and may enable it down the road for certain use cases, but it's much more expensive, especially because it needs real GPUs on cloud instances and those are obviously in very high demand these days on AWS and GCP.

Yeah I'm still working on figuring out some fallbacks for mobile browsers. It's especially tricky to render videos on mobile, both due to CPU/GPU constraints and due to some missing APIs–even Safari desktop is tough at the moment. But I hear you, I'll try my best to figure out a solution, even if it's just image exports to start.

The sale price does indeed fix the price, it's an 80% discount recurring for as long as you keep the subscription. I'll clarify that!

I’m going to work on clarifying this on the landing page.