Show HN: GIF Pile. a site to make piles of GIFs (opens in new tab)

I'm quite fond of obnoxious looking gifs in a post-ironic way as a manner of shitposting and or injecting humor into a chat. The issue with this however is that, for no real good reason at all, the simple usecase of "Have image/gif background, bombard with garbage" had no real good tooling.

There's gif editors out there, EZgif my beloved is probably my most used non-search-indexing-slash-social-media-site, but they're kinda clunky for my specific usecase of making digital eye-sandpaper bombastic garbage. Other options are bleak and gave me the mark of the beast via shitty watermarks. I just wanted a pile of gifs on top of each other, and thus far the "easiest" way was to bust open a video editor, muck around with it, mess up exporting as a gif directly, get mad, export it as a 4 second mp4, and then use ffmpeg to get it working. is this probably moronic? yes. am I likely to have missed a decent tool? yes. Did I give up looking after sending 4 dollars to some Indian guy for "No watermarks ever for 4$", only for that "ever" to be a year, and then the clunky weird af login process not work? absolutely. (Fuck you, you know who you are)

This took me a few hours (most of which was dealing with the fact I don't do webshit normally and the clunk that one would expect from that), and is a minimal site for my personal minimal usecase. It's static because I'm not going to deal w/ hosting other people's shit and I don't want to deal with that can of worms. all processing is done locally on your browser. Yes, this means that using a 4k image as a base layer for your gif pile will make it take an age. It'll work eventually though.

This will never have a watermark unless I'm bought out (total investment thus far has been 14 bucks, 4 of which was that one dude fucking me), in which case I probably earned it. at most I'll likely throw adsense on there at some point to scrape a few cents from the people who can't figure out adblock if it gets popular enough for me to warrant it.

There's no timelines or anything like that. literally just a pile of gifs. thus far my primary usecase has been overlaying text gifs from the various fancy text generator sites onto glitter backgrounds with uncomfortable rat GIFs to call people poor on the internet. this makes me happy.

There's likely to be obvious UI, UX, or other U-whatever fuckups. If you point them out and I deem it pedantic I'll probably laugh at you. if it's helpful I'll probably implement it when I get a bit.

Surprisingly, works on mobile. CSS is exceedingly generic and souless atm, just went off vauge memories of ss13's TGUI. I'll likely scrap the CSS entirely and go full neocities at some point because that's more soulful.