Show HN: MAXGIF, endless stupidly big GIFs

Show HN: MAXGIF, endless stupidly big GIFs(maxgif.com)

12 points by willw 14 years ago | 12 comments

My face when I saw this site: http://maxgif.com/13v

But seriously, great idea and super simple! Why didn't I think of this?! Great job OP.

aleksandrm 14 years ago |

Reminded me of http://neave.com/television/, just random "channel" switching but slightly longer scenes and with sound.

How is your site different, from say, YTMND (which also allows sound on top of GIFs), aside from being minimalistic and not having to log in to create? (though I think I answered my own question here)

phillryu 14 years ago |

I can feel my brain rotting with every click. This is extremely refined entertainment on the ADD, zero-commitment, fizzy side of the spectrum. And it's very addictive.

Does anyone know if these gif 'samples' from movies and TV shows fall under fair use? They seem so brief and low fidelity, surely they aren't infringing on copyrights?

adatta02 14 years ago |

Add one part http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/random and we're off to the races!

cmars 14 years ago |

Great fun, but it's picked up some NSFW gifs. Can you add a filter or at least make NSFW opt-in like reddpics, scrolldit, etc.?

peter_l_downs 14 years ago |

Buy the domain name satiate.me and have it play a new random gif every 3-5 seconds.

switz 14 years ago |

Shaking an iOS device while viewing in Safari brings up a random gif.

willw 14 years ago | |

Yep, and if you add to your homescreen it will open as its own app with an icon and load screen.

Also, keyboard shortcuts for desktop: Next GIF (spacebar), Zoom Out (C).

StavrosK 14 years ago |

What is it?

willw 14 years ago | |

Whoops forgot to introduce it. Click (or hit spacebar) to see a random GIF fullscreen, keep clicking for more. You can directly link to any of the GIFs. These are all added by users, you add your own by simply dropping in a GIF URL on the homepage.

StavrosK 14 years ago | | |

Oh, right, when I launched it I just saw a background of random squares that changed a bit every time, and I didn't have any gif to try it out with, so I closed it.