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I've been building an image hosting platform designed to work without a human in the loop. Most image CDNs require you to fill out a form, confirm an email, set up a dashboard. Thi…

Hi HN! I’m building Antenna, a Mac app to manage an OpenClaw team in one place. If you run multiple agents, it gets messy fast: scattered chats, unclear command approvals, and poor…

Hi HN, I built X41, a small Safari extension for iOS that removes the home feed on X.com. I still want to post, reply, check notifications, and look at analytics. I just don’t want…

If you run into anything or have thoughts later on, feel free to reach out: inbox [at] cris.mx

Thanks, I appreciate that. I went ahead and updated the readme and the plugin text so the privacy section is clearer about what Cloudflare logs and what the plugin itself does or d…

Thanks for sharing all this. It is clear you have gone through several versions of solving this problem, and a lot of what you described is exactly what led me to build this plugin…

You are right that a lot of those clients are on “unlimited” hosting and never think about bandwidth at all. I am still trying to figure out how big the overlap is between “does no…

That could work as a separate plugin. This one is intentionally not an offloader. WordPress keeps storage and transformations, I only rewrite the final URL.

Right. The target user is not using Cloudflare nameservers.

Noted. I agree the current wording is not clear enough about what Cloudflare logs. I am going to rewrite that section so it is more explicit.

Do they? I honestly do not know yet. That is what I am trying to learn.

Mine is a tiny nail. Please buy my plugin.

If someone can get Cloudflare caching working without changing nameservers, then yes, this plugin does not offer anything new for that case.

Yup, been there. I was serving more than 45 TB of data a month on one site, and they tried to push me into a $4,000/mo product. I’ll stick with my $20 subscription, thanks.

Thanks for the detailed perspective. Your setup makes sense for agencies or teams that can manage their own caching, droplets, image formats, and traffic patterns. In that environm…

Thanks, that is exactly the angle I am leaning into. The whole point is to give users most of the benefits of Cloudflare without having to move nameservers or deal with caching rul…

Thanks for the follow up. I think the main difference is that I am not trying to build another offloader or a full image optimization service. WordPress stays in control of storage…

That’s the main question for me now: is there a subset of users who can’t or won’t switch their nameservers to Cloudflare, yet still need a lot of bandwidth? It’s possible that gro…

Thanks for the detailed reply. Let me try to clear up a few things, because I think we are talking about slightly different use cases. The plugin is not trying to replace Cloudflar…

Right. The target user is not using Cloudflare nameservers.

Lucas, let me know if I can help with anything. inbox [at] cris [dot] mx

Thanks for all the comments so far. I wanted to share what I am taking from the discussion and also open the door if anyone wants to keep pushing on any of these points. There is a…

This is true. Honest question: how technical are your clients? I’m trying to get a sense of whether there’s a market where paying $2.99 a month is a better choice than moving the d…

Yes, the worker handles the fetch and cache. In normal use the URLs would point straight to the R2 public endpoint. Cloudflare might end up cheaper than Bunny.net. Five terabytes o…

The purpose of the worker is to offload all Cloudflare configuration to a single endpoint that fetches and caches each image on demand. This removes the need for any configuration …