p/guggy
Turning your text into a whimsy GIF message instantly!
Niv Dror
Guggy — Make your friends laugh with personalized GIFs
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Guggy helps you express yourself with personalized GIFs using a specialized for messaging NLP engine.

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Niv Dror
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 ¯\_(🐼)_/¯
Rotem Yakir
@nivo0o0 Haha An insider tip. You can use # following a search term in the end of the sentence so change the meaning of your sentence. For example: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #I don't care
Arun
@rotemthegolfer Can you explain this a bit better? I don't get it.
Rotem Yakir
@arunsathiya it's very simple. Just add # following a word/s to change the meaning of your sentence. For example, if you write "you are beautiful #ugly" you will get GIFs that represent ugly but with "you are beautiful" text on them
Adam Breckler
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 :)
Rotem Yakir
@adambreckler Thanks Adam, that's great to hear
Ouriel Ohayon
looks pretty cool!!
Chen Zeev
Awesome. My favorite keyboard.
Rotem Yakir
Alex Bouaziz
Love the product & the team is insanely talented. Congrats on the launch!
Arieh Movtady
Its basically the only way I text now
Rotem Yakir
@ariehmovtady Haha. Try using it when you need to get out of a jam, like:
Rotem Yakir
@joelfreeborn Thank you
Juha Liikala
@rotemthegolfer We've been wondering at our office: What happened to Guggy? We've been wondering this ever since the slack integration for Guggy stopped working some time ago. I was surprised to see that the site itself is still there, but there's no news about why all the social media channels, blog and all that vanished. :) It looks like the service was shut down? Kind of sad, as we really liked it over all the other alternatives :/
Nico Lumma
Awesome! I've been a big fan of guggy from the beginning! 😎
Rotem Yakir
@nico thanks Nico!
Rotem Yakir
@nico Yeah too bad, it could have been fun
lingyong
I love this app!
Rotem Yakir
Unfortunately we couldn't continue working on Guggy. Thank you for all of the support.
Rotem Yakir
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,
Niv Dror
@rotemthegolfer 👊 / congrats on Y Combinator, already looks like a ton of progress in a short amount of time
Rotem Yakir
@nivo0o0 Thank you Niv! We are extremely excited to be in YC. Working around the clock but it's totally worth it!
Rishi
@rotemthegolfer pretty fun! P.S. For some weird reason we started typing our names and started sharing the first gif that showed up amongst friends ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ something to consider if you'd like people to share it on social media in a fun way :)
Rotem Yakir
@go_rishi very interesting. We will think about it.
Cody McLain
Rotem Yakir
@codymclain lol thanks
Reony T

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 :)

Ktryn Dchrs
The perfect complement to giphy…! I luv this and already installed it on my Slack Team account!!! 🤗
Rotem Yakir
Assaf Levy
endless fun, good luck!
Arun
I use this on Telegram t.me/guggybot all the time and I cannot enough of it. The best bot ever!
Krishna De
What a great app - I love that we can use the app on Android and iOS and not just have to use a keyboard. Added to my curations! Any plans for a pro-upgrade so there is no watermark - I know some of the people I work with in the media and marketing would find this a fun app to use but they would probably want it unbranded.
Rotem Yakir
@krishnade Thank you Krishna. We were thinking about adding a premium feature to remove the watermark. Can I get your thoughts about if and how much would you pay to be able to remove the watermark? You can send me an email directly to rotem@guggy.com to further discuss about it.
Shamraiz Gul
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 :)
Rotem Yakir
@shamraizgul Haha, this is actually not a bad idea.
Taha ahmed khan
I am in love with this..my friends groups are now full with Guggy
Almog Haimovich
@tahaqadri Happy to hear that, are you using our keyboard or something else?