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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.
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.
I have some feedback to share:
- A thing that bothers me a bit is the extremely long URL that Guggy generates. It's probably not a priority, but those would look and play nicer as shortened links.
- As always there's a slight "uncanny valley" problem when computers match up images with natural language. I sent this to a co-worker as a test, and she complained about the insincere looks on the Seinfeld cast faces: http://bit.ly/2viBamB. It achieved the opposite of what I intended :I
- Let people re-caption existing Guggies
What about porn gifs? Do you do safesearch?
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.
what a nasty, mean, thing to say.
Looks like a really cool project. Congratulations on the momentum! I have some feedback to share: - A thing that bothers me a bit is the extremely long URL that Guggy generates. It's probably not a priority, but those would look and play nicer as shortened links. - As always there's a slight "uncanny valley" problem when computers match up images with natural language. I sent this to a co-worker as a test, and she co…
> A thing that bothers me a bit is the extremely long URL...
Most platforms on which Guggys get shared either do not show the URL or shorten it. Could you say where did it bother you?
> As always there's a slight "uncanny valley" problem...
Interesting point. The thing is that if we have only the scope of the short message, such as "it's great", it's hard to predict whether you're being slightly cynical or sincere, so we try to provide with a few options to choose from.
> Let people re-caption existing Guggies
I see. It's more relevant to the website but I can think of a few ways we can do it on our apps too. We'll give it a thought.
Thanks!
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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
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We are very glad to hear that, thank you
Is there a way to add keywords so you can explicitly pull gifs of different people like say :CaptainAmerica and get just gifs of captin america back without having Cap be in the actual text on the image?
For example: I'm your hero #captain america
Wow, this is awesome. I've been toying with the idea of creating a GIF search engine (I find Giphy's search results rather weak). I'm impressed with Guggy's search results. Any chance you guys could talk more about how this is implemented? (I'd be interested in the tech stack as well) Edit: Your about page is 404'ing http://guggy.com/about
Thanks! What we can share is that we have essentially three main parts - a custom NLP engine that is built specifically for texting (consists of numerous phases of filtering and normalizing), this is the core of Guggy and will be also used in the future for more entertaining applications. The second part is the creatively tagged image repository. Even though tech enables now to tag objects in images, it still can't d…
Something that you guys might find interesting. Even after a day I already forgot exactly the name of Guggy, instead attempting to navigate to http://guppy.com and http://gubby.com. Probably just my bad memory, but might help you guys out if you see bad retention.
