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I wanted to see how hard it would be to build a gif search engine, I made https://gifffy.com https://gifffy.com in a month. My buddies and I used it for our per

by bigdubs 10y ago

I wanted to see how hard it would be to build a gif search engine, I made https://gifffy.com https://gifffy.com in a month. My buddies and I used it for our personal slack instead of giphy. It is nice to be able to adjust the search results ourselves. I am pessimistic on gif search as a business. I am one (not super) talented developer and I made a replacement in a month.

exogeny 10y ago
Giphy sucks as a business. How anyone could invest in it beyond a seed valuation is absolutely beyond me.
yolesaber 10y ago
Do you have a blogpost or other info about how you made it? Did you just scrape tumblr, twitter etc and associate the metadata tags with the images? Or did you do any machine learning classification? Either way, you should apply for seed funding. There's clearly a market for gif searching...apparently.
- bigdubs 10y ago
  I am an avid reader of `/r/reactiongifs` and `/r/highqualitygifs`. Classification is done by hand, and the idea anyway is to use feedback (either slack reactions or voting on the site) to figure out what the best tag for an image is. ML classification is pretty tough when it comes to dank may-mays.
  - yolesaber 10y ago
    Classification is done by hand? So you find a gif you like and then add it to your db and do all the tagging and metadata yourself? Interesting. I feel like a script that scrapes Tumblr for gif posts and their associated tags would be a good approach to start automating things.
    - bigdubs 10y ago
      I've found that quality >> quantity, and specifically tumblr is a horrible place to find gifs (bad quality, weird contexts or usage for the gifs).
      - yolesaber 10y ago
        Fair enough. I'm inclined to believe that's how GIFy does it, because a lot of their gifs have the stuttering, sliced up kind of motion and compression so endemic to tumblr gifs
    - danielam 10y ago
      "scrapes Tumblr for gif posts" If your goal is to create something even lewder than giphy, then yes.

by bigdubs 10y ago

exogeny 10y ago

Giphy sucks as a business. How anyone could invest in it beyond a seed valuation is absolutely beyond me.

yolesaber 10y ago

Do you have a blogpost or other info about how you made it? Did you just scrape tumblr, twitter etc and associate the metadata tags with the images? Or did you do any machine learning classification? Either way, you should apply for seed funding. There's clearly a market for gif searching...apparently.

bigdubs 10y ago
I am an avid reader of `/r/reactiongifs` and `/r/highqualitygifs`. Classification is done by hand, and the idea anyway is to use feedback (either slack reactions or voting on the site) to figure out what the best tag for an image is. ML classification is pretty tough when it comes to dank may-mays.
- yolesaber 10y ago
  Classification is done by hand? So you find a gif you like and then add it to your db and do all the tagging and metadata yourself? Interesting. I feel like a script that scrapes Tumblr for gif posts and their associated tags would be a good approach to start automating things.
  - bigdubs 10y ago
    I've found that quality >> quantity, and specifically tumblr is a horrible place to find gifs (bad quality, weird contexts or usage for the gifs).
    - yolesaber 10y ago
      Fair enough. I'm inclined to believe that's how GIFy does it, because a lot of their gifs have the stuttering, sliced up kind of motion and compression so endemic to tumblr gifs
  - danielam 10y ago
    "scrapes Tumblr for gif posts" If your goal is to create something even lewder than giphy, then yes.