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Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by tedunangst »

downandout wrote: post #82

Great job with this. Very useful. The only issue I see is that Google may sue over domain/trademark issues. Facebook has done this to many sites for using "fb" in their domains. While you're getting lots of attention, you may want to offer a browser plugin/extension/bookmarklet that interfaces with the site (have the bookmarklet use a domain less likely to be contested) so that you can keep momentum going if they hap…

The cases I'm familiar with were 1) clones of Facebook and 2) using "book" in their name. They were more obviously trying to be Facebook. Being a thing for Facebook (YouTube, etc.) is usually handled differently.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by NamTaf »

The presentation of the page ("copy pasta z", the fullscreen gif background, the popup in the middle, the banner in the top left) all strike me as being dodgy/malicious and from a site that I'd immediately want to close and never visit again.

I'm not sure why you see the need to be so 'internet' with it all when you could do a fully functional equivalent that would be easier on your servers too. Just make it clean and usable and it'll be far better.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#113

Post by RoryGlyphic »

NamTaf wrote: post #112

The presentation of the page ("copy pasta z", the fullscreen gif background, the popup in the middle, the banner in the top left) all strike me as being dodgy/malicious and from a site that I'd immediately want to close and never visit again. I'm not sure why you see the need to be so 'internet' with it all when you could do a fully functional equivalent that would be easier on your servers too. Just make it clean an…

Hey Nam! Really appreciate the comment.

We were just being silly and hacking away at it adding random things that made us lol hahaha.

You're right though. Moving forward minimalist is what we hope to accomplish.

Thanks for the feedback ^_^

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by RoryGlyphic »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #106
coolnow wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's up with the emoticons?

If I were to speculate, I'd say RoryGlyphic is younger than you.

hahahahahahhaha. Yeee. I also love emoticons. We actually started out with a gif messenger (glyphic) because we loved texting with emoticons/gifs so much.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#117

Post by RoryGlyphic »

bkd wrote: post #84
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmmmmm...it's something you'd rather maintain as 4x3 right?

Not necessarily - just something I wanted to mention.

will look into seeing if any quality is lost ^_^. cheers

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#118

Post by RoryGlyphic »

lelandbatey wrote: post #95

Wow, talk about a really small world! OP (RoryGlyphic) are you the guy who sent me a text message asking if I'd want to get involved with making a YouTube-to-Gif site (specifically, this conversation [0]). If so, I wanted to say good job on finishing your project, it works great and is easy to use (an much less hackish than my original GifMachine[1]). Also, I'm super excited that something I made a long time ago prom…

HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH OMGGGGG!!!!!! THIS IS HILARIOUS HAHAHAHAHAH.

Damn this is actually great. We messaged a few people asking to help cut times (which was my biggest pet peeve). No one ever came through :').

For the title, it's just something we're testing out. I love scrolling through the DB etc, and a title makes me laugh ahaha. Maybe we can use it in a future thing?

I'm gonna text you ^_^

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by ansh »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #21
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

I'll email you about tech* woops

Hey, great job with this! I'm really interested in details as well.
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