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Inspired by a banner ad I saw and remembered, made a Chrome extension to show a random POV: you're a pringle cat gif every few minutes. Let's bring back whimsy in this age of AI sl…

While doing some web design that needed ASCII art animations, I found that existing tools/libraries: 1) lacked video support 2) fell short in customizability (FPS, brightness/gamma…

Hey HN, Years ago PanicSteve wrote a hilarious Chrome extension to replace all instances of "Cloud" with "Butt". This year, I got annoyed at seeing inane NFT articles everywhere. T…

It's more of an art than a science but you can triangulate depending on what you have and what you're trying to do. If looking into existing markets and figuring out your angle int…

By 'timeline' you can think "list whose order is determined by an algorithm", or however you so choose to interpret your automagical categorization of stuff.

Email has been one of the last holdouts of "services that purely distribute", in an era where Facebook, Twitter, search results, job postings are all tailored/processed by an algor…

Instead of embedding ads into GIFs, I think that Giphy can leverage its image tagging data to help brand owners track social media brand mentions. For example, Giphy could theoreti…

Before this drop they were trading at 14x forward revenue; now they're at 7x. Splunk was at 12x, now at 9.7x. We'll have to revisit what the typical multiple range is for BI/enterp…

Agreed on the technicalities. The easiest way to capture the 80% of technicalities that prospective founders care most about might be to have FAQ section where YC portfolio compani…