magic-the-gifening
Consumer and social
twitter bot
SHOW HN2017
138points
38comments
#287of 2,242 in 2017
Top 13%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 3 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 0 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.
Execution: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Idea and execution called awesome
From 3 comments
This is awesome. Side note: I absolutely despite how Twitter bakes all GIFs into videos and prevents you from saving them as GIFs.
cvsh on HNThat's pretty amazing. Too bad we can't print GIFs. Will this lead to a resurgence of "MTGIF" or "Magic: The GIFering"? (And all this time, I've been doing it manually with Imgur…
stephengillie on HNVery interesting project, integrating all these different libraries. One thing, I noticed that you are using a hardcoded path to the json. Created an issue for you…
jcolella on HN
Objections
Output is video, not a true GIF
From 1 comment
There's a not on the Github page, where he mentions that he doesn't uses GIF but video's. The files generated are actually videos, not proper GIFs. Videos are created much…
NicoJuicy on HN
Barely works
From 1 comment
Too bad it barely works. I like the idea though.
justhackedme on HN
Requests
Use a non-hardcoded path to the JSON
From 1 comment
Very interesting project, integrating all these different libraries. One thing, I noticed that you are using a hardcoded path to the json. Created an issue for you…
jcolella on HN
Questions
Where are the GIFs pulled from and how is one chosen?
From 1 comment
I don't understand... where is it pulling the GIFs from? How does it determine what GIF to use for a given card?
Sniffnoy on HN
Alternatives named
RoboRosewater machine-learning card bot
From 1 comment
Another slightly related cool twitter bot is @RoboRosewater, that uses machine learning to generate new cards. https://twitter.com/RoboRosewater
Fragoel2 on HN
Lenticular GIF printing services like gifpop and giphoscope
From 2 comments
http://gifpop.io/ does a pretty good job using lenticular printing.
dbaupp on HN> Too bad we can't print GIFs. This is the best approximation I've seen: https://www.giphoscope.com/
iak8god on HN