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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 »

tibu wrote: post #31

I wanted to write my own message on the images but it did not work. Not sure I understand the concept...

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?

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

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Post by jaybosamiya »

shahary wrote: post #27
dfischer wrote: post #26

I love guggy on slack. It's always way more fitting for a reaction than giphy.

Thanks! I wonder, are you missing the ability to choose from several options? We haven't implemented that there yet.

Yep, adding that option thing would be great. This could be done similar to the way giphy implements it at the moment. Also, guggy.com/slack doesn't seem to be working at the moment (along with the about page itself)

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

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Post by diminish »

rotemy wrote: post #24
diminish wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

> The colored boxes should be replaced very quickly to the gif.

In several attempts, 4-5 of them were GIFS and the rest waited colored- it was enough for me to assume they were meant to be empty. I have a fast LTE connection. Spinners are a distraction but the slightest, faintest spinner concept can do- and they don't need to spin just maybe just wave or show something is coming.

or maybe don't show the colored boxes at all ..

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

#35

Post by shahary »

jaybosamiya wrote: post #33
shahary wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! I wonder, are you missing the ability to choose from several options? We haven't implemented that there yet.

Yep, adding that option thing would be great. This could be done similar to the way giphy implements it at the moment. Also, guggy.com/slack doesn't seem to be working at the moment (along with the about page itself)

Just launched a new landing page, will be fixed shortly. Thanks.

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

#36

Post by rotemy »

rotemy wrote: post #24
diminish wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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