I thought about creating something like that and the major problem that I see is that lots of meme templates do have copyright and the font that’s typically used for memes, Impact, isn’t free either. Well, and it isn’t done by merely developing a software and offering it for download. You would need to host the meme templates or some editor webpage, which is a whole 'nother skillset.
If we say that users bring their own meme template, and it can be a free font that looks similar to Impact, and it’s not to be hosted as a webpage, then it would be quite doable.
You would “just” need to call the ImageMagick library with the right parameters. Still not trivial, but the path to get there is fairly straightforward. I could imagine that something like that already exists as an open-source project…
The Anton and Oswald Google fonts are Free alternatives to Impact which can be made to look nearly identical (more spacing for Anton, bolder weight for Oswald).
That’s one of your issues solved.
The other one could be solved by making users upload memes to their browsers in local storage. They could then export their meme repositories as ZIP files and share them with others.
You’d “just” need to host the editor webpage and have it do everything locally, ideally as PWA.
I thought about creating something like that and the major problem that I see is that lots of meme templates do have copyright and the font that’s typically used for memes, Impact, isn’t free either. Well, and it isn’t done by merely developing a software and offering it for download. You would need to host the meme templates or some editor webpage, which is a whole 'nother skillset.
If we say that users bring their own meme template, and it can be a free font that looks similar to Impact, and it’s not to be hosted as a webpage, then it would be quite doable.
You would “just” need to call the ImageMagick library with the right parameters. Still not trivial, but the path to get there is fairly straightforward. I could imagine that something like that already exists as an open-source project…
The Anton and Oswald Google fonts are Free alternatives to Impact which can be made to look nearly identical (more spacing for Anton, bolder weight for Oswald).
That’s one of your issues solved.
The other one could be solved by making users upload memes to their browsers in local storage. They could then export their meme repositories as ZIP files and share them with others.
You’d “just” need to host the editor webpage and have it do everything locally, ideally as PWA.