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rotemy

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About rotemy

Wasted 16 years on startups instead of focusing on crypto

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    Comment #47175667

    Interesting. Can I use this with IDE?

  2. story
    Show HN: Why we killed imwith and launched GIFted (Guggy YC S17)

    Hey everyone, 6 months ago we launched imwith - a NLP-based GIF messenger. I’d like to share with you why we decided to discontinue imwith and launch GIFted. imwith enabled you to …

  3. comment
    Comment #14960117

    I think I remember, something like 6000, right?

  4. comment
    Comment #14937796

    @dom96 about page is fixed now, thanks

  5. comment
    Comment #14937473

    Thank you for letting us know. It is fixed now.

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    Comment #14921457

    That's completely understandable. To tell you the truth, we would also want to provide the GIFs without a watermark. However, we need to create brand awareness. Let's hope we will …

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    Comment #14919541

    That's interesting. We will think how to make our brand more memorable, thanks.

  8. comment
    Comment #14914920

    Yes there is. You can use #captain america in the end of the sentence to change the meaning of your sentence. For example: I'm your hero #captain america

  9. comment
    Comment #14912193

    https://img.guggy.com/media/5y5bpShQXM/animated/1/h/2d7eLjxo...

  10. comment
    Comment #14912147

    We don't have any porn, all of are GIFs are PG13.

  11. comment
    Comment #14906587

    Thanks! an insider tip: you can add # following a search term to change the meaning of your sentence. For example: you are so beautiful #ugly

  12. comment
    Comment #14906074

    We are very glad to hear that, thank you

  13. comment
    Comment #14905639

    Thanks Ran!

  14. comment
    Comment #14905365

    Thanks, we will try change some of the results to funnier ones

  15. comment
    Comment #14905119

    We have a repository of gifs that are tagged according to our nlp algorithm.

  16. comment
    Comment #14905067

    Thanks! https://img.guggy.com/media/8gwTJKPnI5/animated/6/h/2WM179sE...

  17. comment
    Comment #14904845

    @diminish Thank you for the suggestion. We will probably use the thumbnail to make the experience better.

  18. comment
    Comment #14904731

    You can go to https://guggy.com/ and just write anything in the input on the top of the page and click on Make GIF. Is that not working for you?

  19. comment
    Comment #14904672

    Yes, most of our traffic comes from places like Viber and FB messenger extension, we only started to really focus on our apps recently. Guggy sounds to us like a funny and casual w…

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    Comment #14904605

    That's true, however, it important to mention that Guggy is mostly meant for messaging.

  21. comment
    Comment #14904547

    - The colored boxes should be replaced very quickly to the gif. We find a spinner to be too much of a distraction. We may change the colored boxes to a thumbnail of the gif. - You …

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    Comment #14904518

    Thanks for the feedback. As you mentioned, front page results are meant to demonstrate our tech. We are constantly trying to balance the humor side and that, however, making sure e…

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    Comment #14904258

    https://img.guggy.com/media/ns9Rq410Jt/animated/10/h/2h9AYZH...

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  25. story
    Launch HN: Guggy (YC S17) – Make your friends laugh with personalized GIFs

    Hi everyone, I'm Rotem from Guggy ( https://guggy.com ). We help you make your friends laugh by turning your text messages into personalized, funny GIFs. We're currently serving 4M…