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Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by user5994461 »

yawaworht1978 wrote: post #106

Good job, may I ask , what was your marketing strategy? Did you engage a lead generation company, SEO? How did you gain visibility in the virtual shops? Used social media for promotion? Pricing structure? If those questions are too profound, feel free to not address them, but either way, this is impressive for a solo Indy dev. And what is the tech stack? Do you listen to users feature requests and bug reports? I have…

Definitely SEO and low content spam.

Look at the tabs on the website, a page to Win $100, a blog that's low content meme spam written by third party authors. https://metameme.app/blog/

Ideally he should be cross posting these across reddit, insta, tiktok and whatever people use these days to drive traffic.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by kebsup »

Mossly wrote: post #169
kebsup wrote: post #59

Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io

Would you be open to adding .webm or perhaps even .mp4 support with a filesize limit? In my opinion .gif has rapidly become a legacy format.

I've tried pretty hard to get it to work with ffmpeg and mediaRecorder, but both of these options are quite limited at the moment and the results just weren't good enough. Other option would be to go server-side which I don't want to do.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by mritchie712 »

fzil wrote: post #150
mritchie712 wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wax helps you systematically find and implement strategies that grow your company. The system is based on the book Traction[0] by Gabriel Weinberg (founder & CEO of DuckDuckGo) and Justin Mares (founder of Kettle & Fire and Perfect Keto). Wax guides you thru process of testing growth channels to find what works for your company. We also offer a "done for you service" where a contractor will execute the the strategies…

So I signed up on your website, and the confirmation email it sent me doesn't work. The link goes to localhost:8080.

fixed! please try again.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by mritchie712 »

phalangion wrote: post #160
fzil wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So I signed up on your website, and the confirmation email it sent me doesn't work. The link goes to localhost:8080.

Well, they did say it was for hackers.

fixed! please try again.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by Mossly »

kebsup wrote: post #193
Mossly wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you be open to adding .webm or perhaps even .mp4 support with a filesize limit? In my opinion .gif has rapidly become a legacy format.

I've tried pretty hard to get it to work with ffmpeg and mediaRecorder, but both of these options are quite limited at the moment and the results just weren't good enough. Other option would be to go server-side which I don't want to do.

I was unaware the rendering could and was being done client-side! Given the limitations I can see why gif would indeed be suitable format. You've tooled a compelling amount of functionality into something very lightweight and convenient, and that's a more than acceptable tradeoff.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by Mossly »

bluecatswim wrote: post #176
egfx wrote: post #170

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Your opinion is misconstrued.

How? Of course asking OP to add features for a site he offers for free is wrong, but I don't think he's wrong about gif. As far as I know all the "gif" sharing sites like giphy and stickers in chat apps like discord, etc actually use webms/webps.

Twitter for instance automatically converts gif to h264.

However there is a point to be made that iOS only grants VP9 decoding to Youtube, certain colourspaces fail to decode on Android etc. ergo gif is a safe default.

Re: Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month

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Post by im3w1l »

kebsup wrote: post #59

Good job! I've created gif meme creator and so far I've only received one 5 USD donation. :D https://gifmemes.io

It looks nice, but some people might be instantly turned off by the new meme dialog.

I was pretty tired so I didn't read everything that carefully, and just pressed the "upload gif" button expecting file picker, but instead I got an error message that the upload failed. I actually thought your webpage was broken.

Only when I when back and read everything carefully did I realize what had happened. Two and a half suggestions: In my mind upload means its transferred from my device, so consider changing the text to "fetch" or something. Handle empty url as a special case. Like maybe just highlight the url box in a red border or something. And finally the half suggestion: measure whether uploading (my guess, but idk) or fetching is the more common usecase, and emphasize that one visually.

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