Show HN: I made an Instagr.am spoof

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16 years ago

I made InstaKenny http://insta.ericwillis.com two nights ago as a joke. It was one of those ideas you get at midnight that seem like a good idea until it's 3am and you have to get up soon.

Things I learned/found:

* AForge http://www.aforgenet.com is an amazing .NET computer vision library. I used the less exciting parts of it for image effects but the complete feature list is really cool.

* Uploadify http://www.uploadify.com is a great jQuery plugin for wrapping the file upload dialog with Flash.

* People will immediately upload porn and S&M images of the Giants' Pat Burrel

* I turned off linking to images if the referrer didn't match my domain name which meant I annoyed a lot of people who just wanted to link to images. It was about 3am when I did this and it seemed like a good idea. I wouldn't do that again; rather, I'd deal with the bandwidth overages if it happened.

* Short URLs are key. Who the heck uses a GUID as an identifier? :)

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