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I made a little project taking this idea to an extreme. The idea was, that you should be able to generate "meme" image macros simply by typing a URL. That way y
by captbaritone 9y ago
I made a little project taking this idea to an extreme. The idea was, that you should be able to generate "meme" image macros simply by typing a URL. That way you could create memes on the fly anywhere that you can enter a URL (Slack/Twitter/Facebook/etc.) without having to leave the app. Just type a URL of the form:
http://urlme.me/<search_prhase_for_meme_image>/<top_text>/<bottom_text>.<ext>
http://urlme.me/ http://urlme.me/
- loco5niner 9y agoWow, I love this. My girlfriend and I LOVE sending memes to each other. This will give me major points :-)
- j2kun 9y agoThis project alone is more convincing that the entire linked article. Needless to say, I love it!
- klenwell 9y agohttp://urlme.me/epiphany/URLs/Are_UI.jpg http://urlme.me/epiphany/URLs/Are_UI.jpg
- clishem 9y agohttp://urlme.me/wow/URLs/Are_UI.jpg http://urlme.me/wow/URLs/Are_UI.jpg
- romwell 9y agoBrilliant! http://urlme.me/simply/one_can't_simply/fix_the_web http://urlme.me/simply/one_can't_simply/fix_the_web ..but your example might lead the way. Also, I hope this stays up for a long time to come.
- captbaritone 9y agoIf you are at all worried about it going away, you can add: ?host=imgur To the URL and it will 301 to the image hosted on Imgur. That is assuming you have more faith in the longevity of Imgur than you do in the longevity of my side project :D
- samuelmo 9y agoThat's really cool. I use something similar (http://memegen.link http://memegen.link) in my noddy project "Zen D Trump", which takes his tweets and pastes them on pictures of relaxing things like beaches and waterfalls. https://github.com/sammoorhouse/zendtrump/blob/master/zendtrump.py https://github.com/sammoorhouse/zendtrump/blob/master/zendtr... @ZenDTrump
- amptorn 9y agoThe only problem here is that now I can make you appear to say anything I want you to say. http://urlme.me/success/I,%20captbaritone/lick%20goats.jpg http://urlme.me/success/I,%20captbaritone/lick%20goats.jpg This can get much nastier fast.
- monsieurbanana 9y agoYou mean without that website you wouldn't know how to put some random text on an image?
- amptorn 9y agoNo, I can force you to host words and it looks like you said them.
- eridius 9y agoIt's a meme generator. Nobody's going to believe that the person who operates the site "said" anything on there. Next are you going to upload an image to imgur that "looks like" the creator of imgur is saying something bad?
- tomatsu 9y agoThe 'x' (#cancel-copy) does nothing. You've to focus/blur #link to go back.
- captbaritone 9y agoAh, thanks for catching that. I've created an issue here: https://github.com/captbaritone/urlmeme/issues/13 https://github.com/captbaritone/urlmeme/issues/13
- kaoD 9y agoAnd this is why URLs as input don't work: http://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actually%20ui/but%20they%20failed%20to%20include%20some%20of%20my%20input http://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actu...? Where's my question mark? ;) Nice idea and nice execution though, too bad the contraints work against it. EDIT: Aaaaaand the UI broke on HN too!
- Vendan 9y agohttp://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actually%20ui/but%20they%20failed%20to%20include%20some%20of%20my%20input%3F http://urlme.me/philosoraptor/what%20if%20urls%20were%20actu... FTFY. But yeah, having to url encode stuff is annoying
- TazeTSchnitzel 9y agoWith slightly different server-side handling, that could work. HN would still remove the ? though.
- lucideer 9y agoFacebook's Phabricator software has this exactly built in, but I think it's a relatively little known feature. The only difference is that you need to upload a selection of base images and assign shortnames to them, instead of entering a general search phrase.