![]() It’s live now, so go try it out, upload your own GIF and get your own animated GIF flipbook! Let me know if you have any feedback or ideas to improve it. That sounds like a fun market □ Try it out If it works, I can adapt this to print Vines, videos of Ryan Hoover’s face, YouTube/Facebook videos etc. I don’t know if liking it will be enough to buy it, but we’ll see in a month when I’ll update you on how this went! Fingers crossed □ I’ve shown my friends the sample flip books I got, and they liked it. It seems to me like a fun product to give to someone. My first physical product startup! I’m super excited and wonder how the internets will respond to this. Right now it sums up the credit of each order’s costs and then at the end of the month I PayPal that amount. Then if it was too many frames, I’d simply repeat the GIF until it was 50 frames long.Īfter cutting it up, the final image sequence is then sent to my supplier with the customer’s shipping address.įor now, I’ll be doing the payments to my supplier manually, but later, if there’s enough sales, I’ll automate that too. Instead I opted to try and half or double the frame rate so it’d fit inside the 50 frames. If you have 36 frames, what do you do though? Interpolating frames makes stuff look blurry and that’s sub-optimal. You show 1 frame for 2 pages and you have 50 pages filled. If you have a GIF with 25 frames, that’s easy. I needed to be able to resize/crop the GIF from the user’s input, cut up the animated GIF frames, and since the flip book was set at 50 frames by my supplier, I had to somehow make sure the image sequence I sent them was exactly 50 frames. The back-end required some not-so-trivial stuff. People need to be able to upload a GIF, enter their CC details and order, all from a phone. It took awhile to get everything working on mobile, but with 50% of my traffic mobile now, that’s mega important. It lets you upload a GIF or paste a URL, lets you position it by dragging the GIF, crop its size right for the flip book, and then in the same page moves you through the ordering process and processes your payment via the always awesome Stripe. The upload bar is a nyan cat flying through space with its awesome rainbow cloud ^_^ It features two colors, a video of the flipbook as a background (simply shot on my iPhone by my dad, while I held the flipbook). Like with my previous projects, I tried to keep the interface of GIFbook.io as simple as possible. If you know anyone printing flip books, tweet me! Front-end But if I get enough volume, I’m looking to push the cost down or otherwise switch suppliers. So my margins are not very high right now. A few replies later I had a supplier who sent me a sample flipbook of Nyan Cat by post! Awesome. So I jumped on Twitter and asked if anyone knew a printing company that did flipbooks. It’d be a bit of hassle to print them myself though. Now they’ve grown into a real startup called Social Print Studio who offer a wide range of print products all connected to social networks. Printstagram started by simply printing Instagram photos as polaroids. So there’s a space! Could this be a business though? I thought so. I searched around and I couldn’t find anyone doing this yet. So even though this doesn’t seem like a world shattering problem, I thought, let’s fix this by letting people print animated GIFs as flipbooks. The infallible Yahoo! Answers obviously agrees: It seems like a problem that we’ve put people on the moon but haven’t been able to put animated GIFs on paper. If Product Hunt teaches us one thing, it’s that GIFs are huge.īut there’s one tiny problem, they stop moving once you print them. If you like one too, you can go and order one now. It’s called GIFbook.io and it lets you order printed physical flipbooks from animated GIFs. This month, I’m launching the 6th startup. ![]() I’m slightly delayed now as the success of Nomad List was a bit overwhelming. 1) PlayMyInbox got covered by MTV and Lifehacker, 2) Tubelytics was quickly adopted by some big media brands, 3) GoFuckingDoIt went completely viral and was featured all over the media including TheNextWeb, AppSumo and WIRED, 4) NomadList surpassed all of them hitting #1 on Product Hunt and Hacker News and getting covered by Business Insider, Inc.com and Tim Ferriss and 5) Nomad Jobs which is soft-launched and slowly receiving coverage now. They’re all minimum viable products, built to test a hypothesis and see if they can get a market fit in a month. A few months ago, I set a goal to launch 12 startups in 12 months. ![]()
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