Contributors & Data Sources

AskGif is made possible by the incredible work of open data providers, API partners, and the open-source community. We are grateful to everyone who helps power this platform.

Core Team

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Sumit Chourasia

Co-Founder & Full-Stack Engineer

Built AskGif from the ground up — architecture, backend, AI integrations, and product vision.

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Shubhansh Vatsyayan

Co-Founder

Contributing to AskGif's growth, content strategy, and platform development.

Data Providers & APIs

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TMDB — The Movie Database

Movie and TV show metadata — titles, posters, plots, cast, crew, release dates, and genres are sourced from TMDB. TMDB is a community-built movie and TV database.

This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

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OMDB API

IMDb ratings, Rotten Tomatoes scores, Metacritic ratings, box office data, content ratings (PG, R, etc.), and awards information are powered by the OMDB API.

OMDB API is an independent project not affiliated with IMDb.

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GIPHY

Parts of our GIF library are powered by the GIPHY API, the world's largest GIF platform with millions of animated images across every category.

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Pexels

High-quality stock photos and videos used in blog articles and feature imagery are sourced from Pexels, which provides free-to-use media under the Pexels License.

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OpenAI

AI-powered features including GIF semantic search, automated blog writing, emotion tagging, and content summarisation are built on OpenAI's language and embedding models.

Built With Open Source

Next.js

React framework for production

Supabase

Open-source Firebase alternative

Tailwind CSS

Utility-first CSS framework

Lucide Icons

Beautiful & consistent open-source icons

Inngest

Background jobs and event-driven functions

Vercel

Hosting and edge deployment platform

Resend

Transactional email API

Community

AskGif is built for the community. Our bilingual platform serves millions of users across India who use GIFs to express themselves, discover great movies, research companies before joining, and read insightful content in their preferred language.

We welcome contributions, feedback, and suggestions. If you find incorrect data, a missing company, or a bug — please reach out. Every report helps us improve.

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