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

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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 ^_^

I like the design, all the way down to Copy Past Z. I think grandparent post is out of touch with your target demographic :D

Awhh. Thank you Heyadayo <3

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

#172

Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful. What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs? Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video: javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com" EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, an…

Since gifyoutube doesn't support https, this is an updated bookmarklet for thost who use youtube with https and need to change the protocol along with the host: javascript:location=" http://gifyoutube.com"+location.pathname+location.search ;

Https certified :O

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

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I like the design, all the way down to Copy Past Z. I think grandparent post is out of touch with your target demographic :D

On the flipside, I think the target demographic would use it without a second thought regardless of the design because the thing they're after is the end result. They only look at this site for fleeting seconds to develop their gif. Essentially, you're trying to appeal to an already sure audience, and in doing so risk losing out on the 'maybe' audience. I cannot think of a target demographic who would use the site in…

Thank you for the insightful comment Nam ^_^. Will do some AB testing

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

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I've never heard of these networks, mind explaining how it works?

Here's the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueHoop (we're a part of ESPN.)

mmm I love truehoop

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

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There seems to be a bug where if you try to create a gif at the same starting point but with a different length than one you've already created for the same video, it only ever returns the original length gif.

Hm. Can you post an example please. Want to solve this ASAP.

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

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Definitely :3. Any suggestions?

gifi.fi (gifify.com is taken). The domain is as of now not registered.

Love all the suggestions guys. Thank you for taking the time to help <3

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#179

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Definitely :3. Any suggestions?

A few names still available: mkgif.com gifjam.com gifit.org gifr.info gifry.net yougif.net or .org Also, you can still keep your url-based usability with a name like this. Instead of telling people "just add gif to the beginning of the domain", tell them "just add .gifjam.com to the end of the domain". Bonus: you can then easily extend to other video sites.

Thank you JT <3. You've been a great help
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