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Show HN: Convert your Google Slides to high-quality animated GIFs and tweet

115 points by amitagarwal 9y ago

mwill 9y ago
Why no example on the page? Gotta seek through a 5 min video to find an example of it in action?
- amitagarwal 9y ago
  The animated GIF in this tweet was generated with TallTweets https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193
AlphaWeaver 9y ago
This is really, really nice from what I could tell from the video. I could see this being very useful!
- amitagarwal 9y ago
  Thank you!
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znpy 9y ago
I honestly cant't understand why people insist so much on having complicated arguments over twitter, an explicitly limiting (in terms of message length) platform. Beside this, threading is awful. Now with slides too?
- beefhash 9y ago
  I presume that might be because Twitter has established itself as the place where everyone is, not necessarily because Twitter is a particularly good platform to argue over.
inDigiNeous 9y ago
Why GIF ? Why not webm ? I understand that GIF is popular and works on all platforms, but it's such a waste of resources, has bad image quality and so on.
- patcon 9y ago
  +1 for webm
- tehlike 9y ago
  Webm is not supported out of the box for ios. Neither is WEBP (sure about webp, not sure about webm).
- amitagarwal 9y ago
  No support in Safari https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
mkrishnan 9y ago
Nice idea. but i people would not want to give you permission to see their google drive files - may be add another option like, have people make their slide public and use that url to create GIF.
- patcon 9y ago
  +1
- hultner 9y ago
  This Wars my exact thought as well.
- amitagarwal 9y ago
  Unfortunately, that's how the Google File picker works. It needs permission to read files from Google Drive even if you are looking for a specific Mime Type (Google Slides in this case)
  - tehlike 9y ago
    Why not make it an add on, then?
    - amitagarwal 9y ago
      That is likely the next step. Addon take more time for approval.
      - tehlike 9y ago
        Good luck, keep up the good work!
patcon 9y ago
This is great! I really appreciate it! I can see this being REALLY useful for people giving presentations, to help viewers share favourite content without being distracted with snapping photos. If you agree, it might make sense to have a special link to the screen for processed slides -- then the presenter could share a bitlink to that page, and users could easily tweet out slides with their own comments :) Example: https://talltweets.com?url=https://docs.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://talltweets.com?url=https://docs.google.com/xxxxxxxxx... Also, is there a github issue queue where we could file tickets and feature requests? If it were available, I would be happy to transpose the tickets in these HN comments into action items for continued conversation
braindead_in 9y ago
In case you don't want to watch the video, there's a free automated transcript https://scribie.com/transcript/7aaafeae86da402d8f7b4bfc68ea8aabad716d63 https://scribie.com/transcript/7aaafeae86da402d8f7b4bfc68ea8...
- Rotten194 9y ago
  >helps you convert your google slides into animated jeff
amitagarwal 9y ago
Here are some additional resources to get you started with TallTweets. Sample tweet with the GIF embedded: https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 Blog post explaining the app: https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-slides-gif/30763/ https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-slides-gif/30763/ Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdIuzaFVH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdIuzaFVH8
polygot 9y ago
Cool idea! I think it's very useful for people who want to share slides but don't want to share the entire pptx file. I wanted to make a GIF of another user's Google Slide, but with the webapp it looks like I only have access to my own slides, and only google slides. I whipped up a quick API to generate a GIF of any Google Slide URL or of any PPTX file available on the web: http://159.203.37.136/ http://159.203.37.136/ You can use the API like this: http://159.203.37.136/?url=xyz&delay=100 http://159.203.37.136/?url=xyz&delay=100 which would make a GIF of the URL pptx file. For example, it could be https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13838392jfdjkfsd/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13838392jfdjkfsd/edit... or https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samplepptx.pptx https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samp... or any ppt or pptx url of your choosing. It works with any public google slides too. As a sample, you can try http://159.203.37.136/?url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samplepptx.pptx&delay=100 http://159.203.37.136/?url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files...
- polygot 9y ago
  Here's the source code (PowerPoint compatibility will be added soon, but Google Slides works): https://github.com/Decagon/muto https://github.com/Decagon/muto
tenryuu 9y ago
So we're converting a bunch of frames to lossy gifs, then when uploading to Twitter it's being converted to an interlaced video I really don't think this was thought out very well
aennyta 9y ago
Cool idea, I can see how it is useful. Doesn't have to be only for Twitter, if you get gif file, you can use of wherever (e.g. Product Hunt).

115 points by amitagarwal 9y ago

mwill 9y ago

Why no example on the page? Gotta seek through a 5 min video to find an example of it in action?

amitagarwal 9y ago
The animated GIF in this tweet was generated with TallTweets https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193

AlphaWeaver 9y ago

This is really, really nice from what I could tell from the video. I could see this being very useful!

amitagarwal 9y ago
Thank you!

deleted 9y ago

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znpy 9y ago

I honestly cant't understand why people insist so much on having complicated arguments over twitter, an explicitly limiting (in terms of message length) platform. Beside this, threading is awful. Now with slides too?

beefhash 9y ago
I presume that might be because Twitter has established itself as the place where everyone is, not necessarily because Twitter is a particularly good platform to argue over.

inDigiNeous 9y ago

Why GIF ? Why not webm ? I understand that GIF is popular and works on all platforms, but it's such a waste of resources, has bad image quality and so on.

patcon 9y ago
+1 for webm
tehlike 9y ago
Webm is not supported out of the box for ios. Neither is WEBP (sure about webp, not sure about webm).
amitagarwal 9y ago
No support in Safari https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm https://caniuse.com/#feat=webm

mkrishnan 9y ago

Nice idea. but i people would not want to give you permission to see their google drive files - may be add another option like, have people make their slide public and use that url to create GIF.

patcon 9y ago
+1
hultner 9y ago
This Wars my exact thought as well.
amitagarwal 9y ago
Unfortunately, that's how the Google File picker works. It needs permission to read files from Google Drive even if you are looking for a specific Mime Type (Google Slides in this case)
- tehlike 9y ago
  Why not make it an add on, then?
  - amitagarwal 9y ago
    That is likely the next step. Addon take more time for approval.
    - tehlike 9y ago
      Good luck, keep up the good work!

patcon 9y ago

This is great! I really appreciate it! I can see this being REALLY useful for people giving presentations, to help viewers share favourite content without being distracted with snapping photos. If you agree, it might make sense to have a special link to the screen for processed slides -- then the presenter could share a bitlink to that page, and users could easily tweet out slides with their own comments :) Example: https://talltweets.com?url=https://docs.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://talltweets.com?url=https://docs.google.com/xxxxxxxxx... Also, is there a github issue queue where we could file tickets and feature requests? If it were available, I would be happy to transpose the tickets in these HN comments into action items for continued conversation

braindead_in 9y ago

In case you don't want to watch the video, there's a free automated transcript https://scribie.com/transcript/7aaafeae86da402d8f7b4bfc68ea8aabad716d63 https://scribie.com/transcript/7aaafeae86da402d8f7b4bfc68ea8...

Rotten194 9y ago
>helps you convert your google slides into animated jeff

amitagarwal 9y ago

Here are some additional resources to get you started with TallTweets. Sample tweet with the GIF embedded: https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 https://twitter.com/labnol/status/945643019490824193 Blog post explaining the app: https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-slides-gif/30763/ https://www.labnol.org/internet/google-slides-gif/30763/ Video tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdIuzaFVH8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POdIuzaFVH8

polygot 9y ago

Cool idea! I think it's very useful for people who want to share slides but don't want to share the entire pptx file. I wanted to make a GIF of another user's Google Slide, but with the webapp it looks like I only have access to my own slides, and only google slides. I whipped up a quick API to generate a GIF of any Google Slide URL or of any PPTX file available on the web: http://159.203.37.136/ http://159.203.37.136/ You can use the API like this: http://159.203.37.136/?url=xyz&delay=100 http://159.203.37.136/?url=xyz&delay=100 which would make a GIF of the URL pptx file. For example, it could be https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13838392jfdjkfsd/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/13838392jfdjkfsd/edit... or https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samplepptx.pptx https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samp... or any ppt or pptx url of your choosing. It works with any public google slides too. As a sample, you can try http://159.203.37.136/?url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/torman_personal/files/samplepptx.pptx&delay=100 http://159.203.37.136/?url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files...

polygot 9y ago
Here's the source code (PowerPoint compatibility will be added soon, but Google Slides works): https://github.com/Decagon/muto https://github.com/Decagon/muto

tenryuu 9y ago

So we're converting a bunch of frames to lossy gifs, then when uploading to Twitter it's being converted to an interlaced video I really don't think this was thought out very well

aennyta 9y ago

Cool idea, I can see how it is useful. Doesn't have to be only for Twitter, if you get gif file, you can use of wherever (e.g. Product Hunt).