Unfry
- Role
- Product & direction, solo
- Built with
- Replit Agent 4 · Gemini
- Scope
- Single page, stateless
- Context
- Agent 4 Content Challenge
- Year
- 2026
The internet deep-fried your memes.
Memes are how the internet argues. Not just jokes, but argument and persuasion, compressed into an image and passed around until the point sticks. The format carries the meaning. The caption is the part you swap.
Which is the problem. Every share, screenshot and repost degrades the image, so the formats people most want to reuse are the ones in the worst condition. And the words are baked into the pixels, so you cannot rewrite them without leaving a smear where the old text was.
Unfry takes a crusty meme, strips the text out of the image, restores the template underneath, and hands it back with the words as editable layers. One page, no account, upload and rewrite and download. It was called MemeForge for about a day, until the name started promising a platform the product had deliberately stopped being.
In short
A hackathon build with Replit Agent 4 and Google Gemini that turned into a real pipeline argument: the order you do things in was the product.
It shipped, got rate-limited before it got promoted, and its own demo images keep their flaws on display.
Detect, destroy, replace: the order was the product
Doubled text looked like a rendering bug and was a sequencing error. Capture the text first, have the model inpaint a hole instead of “removing text”, then lay the words back as layers.
One page beat a platform
Meme-making is reactive. Galleries, accounts and saved work were cut because every added step worked against the only job: a clean version now, your words on it, posted before the moment passes.
Rate-limited before it was promoted
Every restore is two billed model calls. Five per IP per hour and a staggered launch meant a good day could not become a bill.
The flaw ships in the evidence
The restored bell curve's mangled axis numbers are the over-detection defect, shown and captioned rather than swapped for a cleaner demo.
The results
- Product and direction:
- Theodore Rogers
- Implementation:
- Replit Agent 4
- Restoration:
- Google Gemini
- Built for:
- Agent 4 Content Challenge
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