Meme Taste Test
Live: https://theguysaccount.github.io/tinder-for-memes/ · Screens: docs/screens
Swipe 50 memes, get your humor type, and send a link so friends can see whose humor matches yours. No matching of strangers, no account, nothing stored: swipes are packed into the link itself (one bit per meme, plus a checksum, 22 characters).
- The deck: 28 public-domain paintings from The Met (CC0) with original captions, 16 original text memes, and 6 famous meme formats described in words (never copied).
- Seven humor types: absurd, wholesome, deadpan, dark, nerdy, puns, relatable. Your type is the style you laugh at most (smoothed so a small style can't win on one swipe).
- Compare: a friend swipes the same 50 and sees your match, both types, and the memes you both loved; they can send the result back.
- Share card drawn in the browser.
How it runs
| What | Where | When |
|---|
| Tests, build, three headless-Chrome end-to-end runs, deploy, live runs, IndexNow | .github/workflows/pages.yml | every push |
| Live end-to-end runs, page, image and deck checks, keep-alive | .github/workflows/selftest.yml | weekly |
| Confirm every painting is still public domain at The Met | .github/workflows/licenses.yml | monthly |
Content rules, deck rotation and the keys for a domain, sponsor link and analytics: OPERATIONS.md.
Run, test, deploy
python3 pipeline/build.py && python3 -m http.server -d dist 8000
python3 -m unittest discover -s tests # deck and build
node --test tests/js/*.test.mjs # encoding, profile, comparison
scripts/e2e.sh # swipe the built site in headless Chrome
python3 scripts/check_licenses.py # ask The Met about every painting
Deploy is a push to main.
License
Code: MIT. Captions and text memes: CC BY 4.0. Paintings: public domain (CC0) via The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Access; see the About page for each work.
