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Naman Sachdeva
Naman Sachdeva

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TRYING TO LEARN JS THROUGH AN EXPERIMENT

Most websites today are fast.
Responsive. Clean.

But honestly?

A lot of them don’t feel anything anymore.

Everything became:

  • predictable
  • flat
  • overly structured

So instead of building another “productive” project, I decided to build something completely unnecessary 😭
Project link:- https://naman9104.github.io/Cursor/
I tried making a website that feels… alive.

Not with AI.
Not with fancy frameworks.

Just motion, interaction, and tiny details.

The Idea
I asked myself:

What if the cursor affected the environment around it?

So I started experimenting with:

  • a glowing cursor
  • magnetic buttons
  • floating particles
  • smooth movement physics
  • cinematic UI effects And somehow this tiny experiment slowly turned into one of the most fun things I’ve built in a while.

*Still improving it, but this project reminded me why I started learning frontend in the first place.
To make things that feel cool.
*

If you want updates, improvements, or a part 2 — comment below 👀
Will keep adding new effects and features for sure 😄

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