Could always be worse in Des Moines or Toronto

PayloadCMS is FOSS (until Figma changes their mind), but doesn’t have the huge amount of plugins / extensions / themes wordpress does.

I think there’s another FOSS project, but there really isn’t anything with the same breadth as Wordpress.

in the case of India, their engine development project for the HAL Tejas started out with ~50 million USD in 1989 and had a target goal of 5 years.

Given that (even after a 650% cost overrun and 30 years) the total engine development cost is still about $400 million USD, that buys about one and a half F-35Bs.

Even when picking good and cheap, there’s cheap and then there’s shoestring.

> Turning still images into GIFs

Using a file converter will probably do the trick. There are also GIF-making websites that allow for more customization.

> Adding effects to a GIF

The simple method would be to find an image editing website and simply apply an animated effect to the image - e.g overlaying a gif of sparkles.

The other option is to convert the GIF into a video file and use video editing software - this is probably overkill, but does give you more options.