Show HN: We made a .gif website for science ...and a few laughs

My brother and I made a ".gif" website as a summer side project. Before you quip "thanks, the internet needed another one of those", let me explain.

We love gifs. The file-type has been around forever and the funny ones guarantee a chuckle or two. We often email or text each other gifs that convey the perfect emotion in a conversation. Our gif folders were becoming huge and it was becoming difficult to find the ones we were looking for.

There is nothing ground-breaking or seriously innovative about the project, however it did help us learn a whole lot. We found a problem we know pretty well and we set out to solve it while learning as much as possible.

My brother is in a computer-related undergraduate program but his exposure to web programming is limited (non-existent). He had his own set of goals. I wanted to try Amazon Web Services (AWS) for the first time and tinker with multiple APIs, so I had my own set own of goals. Both of us have jobs unrelated to web-development.

Just thought I'd share the site with you fine folks. Feel free to provide feedback (although we don't plan on working on it too much in the future) and share your side-projects where you solved a small problem for yourself.

Fun fact: "GIF" is supposedly pronounced as "JIF" ...like the peanut butter brand.

Link: http://gifpost.me