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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

#52

Post by chaostheory »

shahary wrote: post #10
karllager wrote: post #7

Congrats on the launch. > We’d love to hear your thoughts on our product I find it useless and just another dash in the ocean of distraction.

Appreciate your feedback, we understand it might not be for everyone.

so far the engine itself works for me: the gifs it returns are exactly what I wanted based on my message and it's on iMessage. I'm happy

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

#53

Post by rotemy »

chaostheory wrote: post #52
shahary wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Appreciate your feedback, we understand it might not be for everyone.

so far the engine itself works for me: the gifs it returns are exactly what I wanted based on my message and it's on iMessage. I'm happy

We are very glad to hear that, thank you

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

#54

Post by shahary »

mnutt wrote: post #51

Can you talk about how your realtime gif infrastructure works? Have you considered some sort of lightweight machine vision for pinning text to the scene, similar to many of the gifs in Reddit's /r/highqualitygifs / Instagram's stories?

> Can you talk about how your realtime gif infrastructure works?

We generally store necessary data for generating the GIFs within the URLs themselves. Then we use stateless servers to generate the files. These read the data and overlay the text on top of the GIF.

> Have you considered some sort of lightweight machine vision for pinning text to the scene, similar to many of the gifs in Reddit's /r/highqualitygifs / Instagram's stories?

Yes, it's in the roadmap. We used to have text effects such as the ones appearing here:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1*Ws-pXgOsNkLwhVbyl9...

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*YiT8QgLZ1JAr7DmjX-...

But we came to the conclusion it's too distracting. The thing is that Guggys are essentially an enriched text message, maybe even more than they are GIFs, so we want to make sure that while keeping it visually appealing, we also allow our users to send their message in a clear way, a trait we feel is absent from current GIF products.

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

#57

Post by rotemy »

wyldfire wrote: post #56

This is great, love it. Even if it doesn't match up with the text quite right, it's still entertaining

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

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

#58

Post by Grustaf »

shahary wrote: post #25
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.

Ok, that makes sense, but then instead of linking simply to a gif like you did as an example in your post, perhaps link to a whole conversation on twitter/fb, or at least a screenshot of one. To show it in action.

Even better would be an animation showing the whole work flow, since that is your USP, not the end result per se.

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