[shahary]

> Can you talk about how your realtime gif infrastructure works?

We generally store necessary data for generating the GIFs within the URLs themselves. Then we use stateless servers to generate the files. These read the data and overlay the text on top of the GIF.

> Have you considered some sort of lightweight machine vision for pinning text to the scene, similar to many of the gifs in Reddit's /r/highqualitygifs / Instagram's stories?

Yes, it's in the roadmap. We used to have text effects such as the ones appearing here:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/400/1*Ws-pXgOsNkLwhVbyl9...

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*YiT8QgLZ1JAr7DmjX-...

But we came to the conclusion it's too distracting. The thing is that Guggys are essentially an enriched text message, maybe even more than they are GIFs, so we want to make sure that while keeping it visually appealing, we also allow our users to send their message in a clear way, a trait we feel is absent from current GIF products.