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Hi folks, I'm Alan, one of the founders of RightGIF. We originally built RightGIF as an alternative to Giphy in our own Slack teams. It quickly took off and became one of the top "social & fun" apps in the Slack marketplace (behind only Giphy itself which was the defacto first-party GIF app at the time).

It got very expensive for us to run, and we very nearly sold the app early on, but decided to keep hold of it and just add some little premium features to keep it afloat. Since then it's been running pretty close to break even. We kept it because we always had the intention of one day picking it up and getting serious about it.

Now that both Tenor (GIF Keyboard) and Giphy have sold to Google and Facebook respectively, we feel like it might be time to get serious.

What I'd love to know from the HN community is: a) do you have privacy concerns about Giphy/Facebook tracking? b) what platforms would we need to support to get you onboard with RightGIF c) are there app developers out there that would make use of our API if we made it public?

Thanks heaps!