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

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

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Post by rotemy »

sawmurai wrote: post #16

Nice idea but please spend a couple of days browsing 9gag for inspiration on your frontpage. The examples are (imo) note even remotly funny. Would they be funny they would surely inspire usage of your website. Edit: The tech behind that seems to be interesting, tho. Good job.

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 every result is funny is not very scalable.

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

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Post by rotemy »

diminish wrote: post #12
shahary wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's http://guggy.com

Here are some comments: - When I search for "the universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction.", I see few options and a lot of empty colored boxes which I assumed was empty - but they were loading. So maybe it's better to put a spinner? - It can be very good if embedded inside FB or Reddit. So a focus there would be better. FB embed (edit- FB shows it on the timeline without a need to click away) worked for me. -…

- 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 can post the gif to FB and reddit using the share buttons. What do you mean by embed?

- Advanced customizations and photo upload are on our roadmap, we can't tell yet when we will do it

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

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Post by shahary »

Grustaf wrote: post #14

I'm not sure I quite get it, will the readers of the posts then have to click these links to actually see the words? That seems a bit impractical. Wouldn't it be better to put the gif itself on the clipboard in that case?

Also important to mention that Guggy is mostly made for messaging/texting. Our main products are iOS/Android keyboards which allow you to share GIFs in messaging apps such as iMessage, FB Messenger, WhatsApp etc.

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

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Post by rotemy »

diminish wrote: post #20
sawmurai wrote: post #16

Nice idea but please spend a couple of days browsing 9gag for inspiration on your frontpage. The examples are (imo) note even remotly funny. Would they be funny they would surely inspire usage of your website. Edit: The tech behind that seems to be interesting, tho. Good job.

In addition to 9gags, imgur and reddit top subreddits (top) lists are interesting places to get inspired.

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

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

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Post by rotemy »

zazpowered wrote: post #29

Where are you guys serving 4m gifs? the API? Doesn't seem like the apps are that popular. Also the name might need work because it doesn't sound very appealing

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 word. It's actually very similar to the word funny.
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