You should post it on Reddit, as it will get lots and lots of usage there.
Somebody already did, it didn't get a lot of buzz though. Gotta try that later today!
Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif
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Re: Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif
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Cofounder of GifSoup.com here (before we sold it off). Prepare to have your bandwidth obliterated. You'll need to pay for way better hosting, people are literally going to hotlink you to death. I'm not sure if your downloading process has a progress bar, but I suggest you implement one to keep impatient people from leaving (it looks like you do, but your server just might be unresponsive at the moment). Your hosting…
Hey coryl, thanks for your feedback! The studio is just temporarily storing the files, they are automatically deleted after (currently) 24h. We will move this down to 60 minutes though. As mentioned before, the server this beauty is running on is a very very small one, since we didn't expect such a huge feedback. We will move to another server later this week. I've been running an online video converter for 5 years n…
If you would like to save bandwidth anyway, you could make the download link point to a data uri so that the users can only download the image. Might be a worse user experience though, if you think it's an OK use case to hotlink temporarily.