Show HN: MAXGIF, endless stupidly big GIFs

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Post by willw » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:35 PM UTC

Show HN: MAXGIF, endless stupidly big GIFs
maxgif.com

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Post by StavrosK » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:44 PM UTC

What is it?

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#3

Post by phillryu » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:47 PM UTC

I can feel my brain rotting with every click. This is extremely refined entertainment on the ADD, zero-commitment, fizzy side of the spectrum. And it's very addictive.

Does anyone know if these gif 'samples' from movies and TV shows fall under fair use? They seem so brief and low fidelity, surely they aren't infringing on copyrights?

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Post by nateberkopec » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:50 PM UTC

My face when I saw this site: http://maxgif.com/13v

But seriously, great idea and super simple! Why didn't I think of this?! Great job OP.

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Post by willw » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:53 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #2

What is it?

Whoops forgot to introduce it. Click (or hit spacebar) to see a random GIF fullscreen, keep clicking for more. You can directly link to any of the GIFs. These are all added by users, you add your own by simply dropping in a GIF URL on the homepage.

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Post by peter_l_downs » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:55 PM UTC

Buy the domain name satiate.me and have it play a new random gif every 3-5 seconds.

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Post by cancelbubble » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:56 PM UTC

I can't stop clicking.

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Post by aleksandrm » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:59 PM UTC

Reminded me of http://neave.com/television/, just random "channel" switching but slightly longer scenes and with sound.

How is your site different, from say, YTMND (which also allows sound on top of GIFs), aside from being minimalistic and not having to log in to create? (though I think I answered my own question here)

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Post by StavrosK » Wed, May 02, 2012, 12:09 AM UTC

willw wrote: post #5

StavrosK wrote: post #2

What is it?

Whoops forgot to introduce it. Click (or hit spacebar) to see a random GIF fullscreen, keep clicking for more. You can directly link to any of the GIFs. These are all added by users, you add your own by simply dropping in a GIF URL on the homepage.

Oh, right, when I launched it I just saw a background of random squares that changed a bit every time, and I didn't have any gif to try it out with, so I closed it.

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Post by adatta02 » Wed, May 02, 2012, 12:10 AM UTC

Add one part http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/random and we're off to the races!