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Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD Are the users active? Have you thought / analyze

Thanks! I just can't wrap my head around the fact that someone is willing to pay $5 a month for a meme app! XD Are the users active? Have you thought / analyzed if they pay and forget that it's a subscription? :-?

par 5y ago
Yes the users are quite active. The main thing people are paying for are the video features and the video scraper. There is some code which allows the app to pull videos from youtube, instagram, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc, and I think that is really the thing that separates this app from other generic image editors.
- vletal 5y ago
  From YouTube? I thought that such app would get rejected from App Store...
  - pessimizer 5y ago
    I don't know about the app store, but a screenshot with a satirical comment superimposed is easy fair use.
    - lrem 5y ago
      Only if the comment is about the screenshot itself though. https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU has some sad explanation.
      - vletal 5y ago
        I was thinking along the lines of not being OK to scrape YouTube rather then breaking copyright or intellectual property.
        lrem 5y ago
        Oh sure, YouTube forbids that. Once there's enough traffic to care, it'll get cut off. But YouTube is somewhat unlikely to try to sue one's socks off for breaking the ToS. Copyright owners though...
    - croes 5y ago
      Not all countries have something like fair use. Could be a problem in the EU.
- paulryanrogers 5y ago
  What are the legal implications of grabbing from arbitrary video and profiting off derivative works? Is it fair use? Have you had to moderate to avoid illegal images from getting into the system?
- erhk 5y ago
  Remove this post before google does to you what it did to groovy
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nickthegreek 5y ago
Same, but on the other hand memers do seem to take their craft seriously. While I wouldn't want to pay monthly for this app as I would use it a few times a year (I'll just fire up photoshop), I guess its not too much cash for users serious about creating. Apparently you can make some good cash focusing on a niche user market.
- par 5y ago
  Something interesting I found is that the many of the 'power users' of the meme world have many different meme making apps and they pay for most of them!
  - robocat 5y ago
    What are some of the sites that the ‘power users’ initially seed with their memes? Are there any patterns to (profiles of) the power users, or customer segments you know about the power users? Amateur versus professional? Edit: I see you mention “a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers)”, so other sites or segments?
meristohm 5y ago
We’ve long spent resources on increasing attention and popularity; might this expense be similarly justified? Having a meme generator at one’s fingertips seems a timely way to increase standing in the online culture participated in.
blondin 5y ago
creators and influencers would be my guess.

par 5y ago

Yes the users are quite active. The main thing people are paying for are the video features and the video scraper. There is some code which allows the app to pull videos from youtube, instagram, facebook, twitter, reddit, etc, and I think that is really the thing that separates this app from other generic image editors.

vletal 5y ago
From YouTube? I thought that such app would get rejected from App Store...
- pessimizer 5y ago
  I don't know about the app store, but a screenshot with a satirical comment superimposed is easy fair use.
  - lrem 5y ago
    Only if the comment is about the screenshot itself though. https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU https://youtu.be/1Jwo5qc78QU has some sad explanation.
    - vletal 5y ago
      I was thinking along the lines of not being OK to scrape YouTube rather then breaking copyright or intellectual property.
      - lrem 5y ago
        Oh sure, YouTube forbids that. Once there's enough traffic to care, it'll get cut off. But YouTube is somewhat unlikely to try to sue one's socks off for breaking the ToS. Copyright owners though...
  - croes 5y ago
    Not all countries have something like fair use. Could be a problem in the EU.
paulryanrogers 5y ago
What are the legal implications of grabbing from arbitrary video and profiting off derivative works? Is it fair use? Have you had to moderate to avoid illegal images from getting into the system?
erhk 5y ago
Remove this post before google does to you what it did to groovy
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nickthegreek 5y ago

Same, but on the other hand memers do seem to take their craft seriously. While I wouldn't want to pay monthly for this app as I would use it a few times a year (I'll just fire up photoshop), I guess its not too much cash for users serious about creating. Apparently you can make some good cash focusing on a niche user market.

par 5y ago
Something interesting I found is that the many of the 'power users' of the meme world have many different meme making apps and they pay for most of them!
- robocat 5y ago
  What are some of the sites that the ‘power users’ initially seed with their memes? Are there any patterns to (profiles of) the power users, or customer segments you know about the power users? Amateur versus professional? Edit: I see you mention “a lot of my users run fairly large instagram pages (50k+ followers)”, so other sites or segments?

meristohm 5y ago

We’ve long spent resources on increasing attention and popularity; might this expense be similarly justified? Having a meme generator at one’s fingertips seems a timely way to increase standing in the online culture participated in.

blondin 5y ago

creators and influencers would be my guess.