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REAL Real: all four design links in the 'gradients you have not seen before' post resolve to live, useful sites, and the post asks for nothing but a follow
The claimCaption: 'gradientool.com - gradients you have not seen before / loadmo.re - an archive of mobile sites / recent.design - the best new design, daily / reelfolio.io - screenshots in, one video out. Follow for more.'
Four links, four live sites, no funnel. gradientool.com is a gradient generator, loadmo.re is a curated archive of mobile site designs, recent.design is a daily feed of new design work, and reelfolio.io is a tool that turns screenshots into a short portfolio video. Each responded normally when fetched. The descriptions are one-line and accurate; 'gradients you have not seen before' is the only puffery and it is harmless. The one thing to know is that reelfolio.io is a product rather than a free archive, so expect a paid tier once you use it seriously. As a bookmark list this is exactly what it claims to be.
What holds up
- All four domains fetched directly: gradientool.com, loadmo.re, recent.design and reelfolio.io each returned HTTP 200 at their canonical URLs.
- Caption pulled via TikTok oEmbed; the post's claim is entirely the four one-line descriptions plus 'Follow for more'.
- No product, course, community or comment-keyword funnel; the poster's only ask is a follow.
- reelfolio.io is a commercial tool (screenshots to video); the other three are free-to-browse resources.
What doesn’t
- 'Gradients you have not seen before' is the only puffery in the post, and it is the harmless kind.
- reelfolio.io is a product, not an archive; the caption does not say so.
The catch
Bookmark all four. The only caveat is that reelfolio is a tool with a price, not a free gallery like the other three.
How to actually do it
- Use loadmo.re and recent.design as reference when briefing a designer or prompting a model: 'make it look like this' with a real link beats adjectives.
- Pull gradients from gradientool.com as CSS, not screenshots, so they stay editable in your build.
- Try reelfolio.io once on a finished site to get a portfolio clip; check its pricing before making it part of your delivery process.
Four live, useful design resources described accurately, with no funnel. One of the four is a paid tool rather than a free archive.
- Confidence
- High
- Posted by
- @yassinezaanouni (design-resources account; photo post sent to the self-thread Thu Sep 10, 2026, 10:50 PM)
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