[kebsup]

https://gifmemes.io/

Made 240 USD in December. About 9k visitors and 27k page views tracked through plausible. Spent maybe 5 hours working on the codebase in 2023, which makes a solid ((240 * 12) / 10) = 288 USD / hour.

All of the money are from the watermark removal sales (10 USD). A lot of people say I could be making much more with some subscription model, but so far I'm resisting. (And the codebase is a mess :D )

[chocoboaus2]

Personally I think you are making the right call avoiding subscriptions in a side hustle project like this.

Once subscriptions get involved you have to deal with a lot more complexity, churn metrics, refunds (more so than now because of people 'forgetting' to unsub), the stuff around do you pro-rata at subscription cancel or leave it running until date is reached, stripe makes that a little easier but its still a thing.

so yeah, good move imo.

[koolba]

This thing is awesome. I’m going to be using this near daily.

For bandwidth cost reasons I’m guessing you don’t support live linking right?

[kebsup]

I think it would be quite cheap. The only reason is that I was using Gfycat which shut down.

The reason I did not implement my own was that Gfycat was integrated with reddit, so that posting the link would automatically show the gif.

[jasondigitized]

Ok, I'm gonna need you to break down the motion tracking for me. Are you using MediaPipe?

[kebsup]

No external libraries are used. I just greedy search the image from a grid of starting points to find the best match.

The similarity function is a sum of squared differences of the pixel values.