Personally I think you are making the right call avoiding subscriptions in a side hustle project like this.

Once subscriptions get involved you have to deal with a lot more complexity, churn metrics, refunds (more so than now because of people 'forgetting' to unsub), the stuff around do you pro-rata at subscription cancel or leave it running until date is reached, stripe makes that a little easier but its still a thing.

so yeah, good move imo.

Ok, I'm gonna need you to break down the motion tracking for me. Are you using MediaPipe?

No external libraries are used. I just greedy search the image from a grid of starting points to find the best match.

The similarity function is a sum of squared differences of the pixel values.

This thing is awesome. I’m going to be using this near daily.

For bandwidth cost reasons I’m guessing you don’t support live linking right?

I think it would be quite cheap. The only reason is that I was using Gfycat which shut down.

The reason I did not implement my own was that Gfycat was integrated with reddit, so that posting the link would automatically show the gif.