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Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required

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Post by iamsalman » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 8:41 AM UTC

sfeng wrote: post #32

blowski wrote: post #27

Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?

This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize

We wrote the complete image processing oursleves, accelerated on GPUs @ https://IMGX.io (checkout Image URL API).

Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required

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Post by iamsalman » Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 8:44 AM UTC

ComputerGuru wrote: post #7

Nginx can do this with the ngx_http_image_filter_module (included in stock distribution): https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/nginx-wordpress-images-with-n...

There's one serious problem with using 3rd party Imaging SDKs or utilities to build your service on: You're stuck with their flaws and you can't do much about it.

Disclaimer: I'm co-founder https://IMGX.io

We have written our own image processing SDK, using only encoders which are 3rd party (libpng, libjpeg, libwebp etc), rest is all handwritten, GPU optimized code. The rationale behind it was to be able to tweak/optimize any feature.

Re: Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code required

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Post by doobiedoobie » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 4:01 AM UTC

callumjones wrote: post #14

ljqwfk83id wrote: post #13

Just so you know, Web of Trust gives firesize.com a "Very Poor" Trustworthiness and Child Safety rating. https://www.mywot.com/en/scorecard/firesize.com?utm_source=a...

Based on one comment in 2009, surely WOT needs a better algorithm for refreshing these ratings as time passes.

YEAHH MANNNNEE I TTTLLY SEE THIS AS A PROBLEM FOR SURE.