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Show HN: GIFsonic, manipulate animated GIFs on-the-fly using simple URL commands
Hello everyone!
I've been building this for a while and just opened it to signups a few days ago.
It's an image proxy that does on-the-fly image processing for animated GIFs, like this:
https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/media/12MhwQm8toOEp2/giphy.gif&background_color=DAF7A6 https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/...
https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/media/12MhwQm8toOEp2/giphy.gif&background_color=339955 https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/...
or even (background + text + watermark):
https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/media/12MhwQm8toOEp2/giphy.gif&background_color=ff6600&text=Hello,%20Hacker%20News!!!&watermark_url=https://news.ycombinator.com/y18.gif&watermark_width=24 https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/...)
Here are docs with examples:
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/ https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=width https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=width
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=height https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=height
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=reverse https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=reverse
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=background_color https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=background_color
- https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=meme_top_text https://www.gifsonic.com/docs/example/?t=meme_top_text (my favorite)
- etc. etc.
What do you guys think about the project? I would really love some feedback...
- lecarore 9y agoThat's interesting (and it looks like it work pretty well). However, i'm not sure who's going to pay for it. What's your target ? I like how the error message is an animated gif itself ^^ Is it just me, or you can just use the service for free by using the exemple urls ? like https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/media/yFQ0ywscgobJK/giphy.gif&reverse=1 https://i.gifsonic.com/example/?src=https://media.giphy.com/...
- nkkollaw 9y agoHey lecarore, thanks for your feedback. This project has evolved from an image-resizing app in Polish for the Polish market, which eventually didn't happen. I thought I'd pivot/repurpose to animated GIFs since they seem to everywhere and I thought concentrating on/optimizing for GIFs would provide some value over Imgix, Cloudinary, etc. (kind of focusing on Polish/Poland might have). The target would be websites that deal with a lot of animated GIFs and use the same image for thumbs, for instance (see https://codemyui.com/ https://codemyui.com/). Or, people who want to add watermarks to GIFs programatically, etc. I'll start promoting it in September and see if anyone can use it. The project didn't start from someone's need, so I'm not sure who the target might be—like I don't have a specific niche in mind just yet. As for using https://i.gifsonic.com/example/ https://i.gifsonic.com/example/, of course I'm aware of that, but right now I'm happy if someone thinks it's good enough to steal, and at least I can see how people use it (mostly on Slack and Discourse, so far). Once I get to implement restricting referrers GIFs would stop working on non-authorized domains.