Guggy - Make your friends laugh with personalized GIFs

Hi everyone, I'm Rotem from Guggy and we help you make your friends laugh by turning your text messages into personalized, funny GIFs. We're currently serving 4M GIFs daily. It works like this: Whenever you want to spice up your conversation, just use Guggy and get a selection of GIFs with your text in them. When we started Guggy, we were trying to provide non-technical users with an easy way of creating funny GIFs, and for that we built a GIF editor, only to discover that the real problem was that people had a hard time combining the right text with the right GIF. That got us thinking that we should try to automatically create the text/image pairing, relieving users from the need to search and match. To do that, we've built an NLP engine that understands 'messaging language', that is, slang, excited writing (e.g. “soo amazinggg!”) and leetspeak, to name a few. We’ve also built a fast image rendering engine that generates the final media for the user in real time. This stands out from existing solutions, which rely on existing media files (served via CDNs). We don’t store the files at all, we generate them on the fly at each request. That gives us flexibility in personalizing the content to the user. We’re two co-founders who are also cousins. We have been working together on numerous projects for several years, and always wanted to build something related to humor. Of all the projects we've tried, this is the one that just sort of took off, and we've been following where the users want to take us. It's kind of a dream project because the technical challenges are interesting and we get to work in a space that amuses us. We offer our own Android/iOS GIF keyboards for natural experience, or you can just use our standalone apps. We also have bots and an API so you can use Guggy via messengers such as Facebook, Viber and Slack. If you don't find it annoying, we may reply to bits of your text in the comments with Guggy URLs, just for fun and to show what the system can do. We’d love to hear your thoughts on our product, and feel free to head to guggy.com and reply with Guggy GIFs :) Oh and btw,

I instantly loved Guggy as soon as @rotemthegolfer showed me a (very rough version) of the app. Just search for a GIF, and it overlays what you typed on top. Makes it super easy to create custom GIFs on mobile. Here's a quick demo ¯\_(🐼)_/¯

Its basically the only way I text now

Love the product & the team is insanely talented. Congrats on the launch!

Love this app! Been having fun playing around with it for a while and excited to see the latest update makes it even smoother to get my gif on :)

Awesome. My favorite keyboard.

Love this app! Nice work guys. :))

endless fun, good luck!

The perfect complement to giphy…! I luv this and already installed it on my Slack Team account!!! 🤗

Awesome! I've been a big fan of guggy from the beginning! 😎

I am in love with this..my friends groups are now full with Guggy

Thanks guys 😅 Interesting!

Cool App, but why is it not available in India?

Downloaded this yesterday and I love it !!! Is there a way to add two # at the same time on the app ?? For instance I want #confused and #azizansari :)

This is a killer app man 👌🏽Watch out Giphy.

I've really loved using this every day. The fact that you have a little "floating button" when I use a supported app, is fantastic. I try to use Samsung's default Messages app, but it doesn't show the floating button there. This a lack of API? If you can get GIF compression for sending texts, that'll be 🔥 Keep it up! Love the branding too! 👍🏼

Pros:

Easily makes you the best GIF sharer amongst your friends. Perfect for lazy people since it works within your messaging apps (if supported)

Cons:

I wanna send this via MMS, but the GIF power levels are too high!! Please add some friendly compression so I can send my texts with Guggy :)

Absolutely love it!