Show HN: Manage your gif collection, search and drag/drop from a desktop app(airgif.com)
airgif.com
Show HN: Manage your gif collection, search and drag/drop from a desktop app
http://airgif.com
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Thanks for the heads up. I use PHP only to hack together quick side projects... but yet another reason it sucks ;(
How is this PHPs fault? You're using functions that have been recommended against for well over 5 years.
If anything, it's a testament to PHP that you've managed to get a web-app up and running when you have so little experience with it.
If anything, it's a testament to PHP that you've managed to get a web-app up and running when you have so little experience with it.
Neat project! Some feedback after trying it:
- I don't have a GIF folder, so it would be nice if there was a "create" folder button, or if you just created me one
- Can you offer a standalone build outside of the mac app store?
The gamification that you've included is kind of neat as well.
- I don't have a GIF folder, so it would be nice if there was a "create" folder button, or if you just created me one
- Can you offer a standalone build outside of the mac app store?
The gamification that you've included is kind of neat as well.
Thanks! Fwiw you don't have to attach a folder, and you can attach one later via settings. I've been thinking of making a web app version :)
Setting a width and height on your thumbnails will cause your search results to look better when the site is slow (or on a slow connection):
http://i.imgur.com/GXItOaL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GXItOaL.jpg
Great idea, pretty poor execution. Gifs are bouncing/animating around all over the place for no apparent reason. Clicking on a gif to view just keeps loading indefinitely. Then I have to earn points to get a gif so I click to tag, but that doesn't seem to work either. I genuinely saw value in this idea. I was hoping for an app that aggregates the searching of gifs across all the popular meme/gif sites and let's me manage and tag them so I can quickly grab them when I need them. Instead, this app opts for a more complicated, less valuable, and unstable service. I hate to be so harsh, but thems my thoughts.
Fair criticism, though largely due to the fact that the server is completely overloaded :(
The tagging aspect of the project is interesting. Being able to find something specific easily on the web can be at times difficult due to a general lack of descriptions for images.
I have a habit of describing by filename every single image/gif/video I download which helps beyond measure when performing a search, and have over 8,000 files named in this way. I can find what I'm looking for in a few seconds. The benefit is it only takes a few moments to name initially but saves an enormous amount of time in the long run. Rewarding users to tag descriptively is a nice idea.
I have a habit of describing by filename every single image/gif/video I download which helps beyond measure when performing a search, and have over 8,000 files named in this way. I can find what I'm looking for in a few seconds. The benefit is it only takes a few moments to name initially but saves an enormous amount of time in the long run. Rewarding users to tag descriptively is a nice idea.
Thanks!
I've been very, very slowly building something similar to this for a long, long time and this is looks like it's 3x as awesome as the goal I had set for myself in my head.
Thanks! I had it my head for 6 months and finally decided to build it, glad I'm not the only one who wanted it.
How do you feel about "HTML5 GIFs"? I'm sure people would appreciate an automated conversion to webm. See the MediaCrush source for help: https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush
Love the idea! Will need to look into how viable it is on my web host, but definitely worth considering.
If you're worried about the infrastructure, MediaCrush can host them for you and is very developer friendly.
https://mediacru.sh/docs
https://mediacru.sh/docs
Site went down it seems. Link to app store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/airgif/id879836961?ls=1&mt=1...
Giftoppr helps you sync your favorite GIFs with Dropbox. The UI is so much better.
And FOSS.
https://github.com/desktoppr/giftoppr
And FOSS.
https://github.com/desktoppr/giftoppr
Nice concept. I like the points idea to incite tagging.
The homepage does a poor job of convincing me to install the application : an image (carousels don't count) and two lines of text for a visual application.
The homepage does a poor job of convincing me to install the application : an image (carousels don't count) and two lines of text for a visual application.
I love it!
And I like your iAP monetization. Just bought 200 gif downloads for $1.99, well worth it :)
And I like your iAP monetization. Just bought 200 gif downloads for $1.99, well worth it :)
For those of you starting new PHP projects, and for the sake of this one: the mysql_* set of functions in PHP have been discouraged for many years and are deprecated[1] as of PHP 5.5.
Hopefully it isn't too late to migrate to mysqli_*[2] functions or, what many developers prefer, PDO[3]. Should you choose to go the PDO route, there are some good resources out there[4] to get started.
[1] - https://php.net/manual/en/migration55.deprecated.php
[2] - https://php.net/manual/en/book.mysqli.php
[3] - https://php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php
[4] - http://wiki.hashphp.org/PDO_Tutorial_for_MySQL_Developers