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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

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Post by karllager »

diminish wrote: post #9
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.

And it can be succesful because: https://img.guggy.com/media/b7E41wFSJh/animated/4/h/1XhEYqMy...

> The universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction.

Well said. What makes me a bit sad is that generations of scientists and engineers poured their sweat into building chips, network and a giant incredible infrastructure and what we cheer to is a site with gifs.

I want technology to solve more pressing needs, millions of people commute to work and pollute the environment even tough we have all these internets. And so much else is wasted. Why cannot we have a nicer world - the tech seem to be is here?

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

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Post by diminish »

shahary wrote: post #4
diminish wrote: post #3

Where's the website? here: https://guggy.com/ https://img.guggy.com/media/tLJNhkLj2I/animated/2/h/4UEhAtc4...

It's http://guggy.com

Here are some comments:

- When I search for "the universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction.", I see few options and a lot of empty colored boxes which I assumed was empty - but they were loading. So maybe it's better to put a spinner?

- It can be very good if embedded inside FB or Reddit. So a focus there would be better. FB embed (edit- FB shows it on the timeline without a need to click away) worked for me.

- Slight customization of font color, stroke and size could be good - maybe as an advanced setting. But simplicity and defaults are good.

- May I upload my own photo and make my own gug (or whatever).?

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

#13

Post by dang »

austenallred wrote: post #8
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.

Never change, Hacker News

Would you please not do this here? It takes a problem and makes it worse.

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

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Post by victoriap »

karllager wrote: post #11
diminish wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it can be succesful because: https://img.guggy.com/media/b7E41wFSJh/animated/4/h/1XhEYqMy...

> The universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction. Well said. What makes me a bit sad is that generations of scientists and engineers poured their sweat into building chips, network and a giant incredible infrastructure and what we cheer to is a site with gifs. I want technology to solve more pressing needs, millions of people commute to work and pollute the environment even tough we have all these internets. And…

Making people smile and cherishing their souls is also a serious endeavor in addition to all that you mentioned )

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

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Post by sawmurai »

Nice idea but please spend a couple of days browsing 9gag for inspiration on your frontpage. The examples are (imo) note even remotly funny. Would they be funny they would surely inspire usage of your website.

Edit: The tech behind that seems to be interesting, tho. Good job.

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

#17

Post by diminish »

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?

On HN yes, but I just shared some on facebook, and they appear on the timeline.

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

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Post by shahary »

karllager wrote: post #11
diminish wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it can be succesful because: https://img.guggy.com/media/b7E41wFSJh/animated/4/h/1XhEYqMy...

> The universe itself is a giant ocean of distraction. Well said. What makes me a bit sad is that generations of scientists and engineers poured their sweat into building chips, network and a giant incredible infrastructure and what we cheer to is a site with gifs. I want technology to solve more pressing needs, millions of people commute to work and pollute the environment even tough we have all these internets. And…

Interesting point and one that I think of often. I am happy to be working on an entertainment product which makes people laugh and enjoy. Quoting from one of our app reviews - "Life changer, marriage improver, traditional communication killer". That sort of thing makes me feel we're at least working on something positive, and I think that the world is nicer with entertainment and fun, in addition to solving urging medical, environmental, etc. problems.

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

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Post by diminish »

sawmurai wrote: post #16

Nice idea but please spend a couple of days browsing 9gag for inspiration on your frontpage. The examples are (imo) note even remotly funny. Would they be funny they would surely inspire usage of your website. Edit: The tech behind that seems to be interesting, tho. Good job.

In addition to 9gags, imgur and reddit top subreddits (top) lists are interesting places to get inspired.
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