For something called "scaley" your logo looks very blurry on my high-dpi display. Use SVG!
Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service
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#62I'd like to echo the sentiment that offering 100% uptime and 3x, 5x, 10x refunds is a dangerous decision and actually will not increase paid signups. I've been doing operations/DevOps for over a decade (in fact I just launched a consulting startup (https://elasticbyte.net) that helps companies manage their cloud infrastructure). 100% uptime is a red flag, ops professionals never guarantee 100%.
You instead should offer standard 99.9% (44 mins a month) or 99.99% (4 min 30 sec) with standard SLA language.
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#63Related: https://kraken.io
I wonder how is scaley comparing to kraken? I have used neither. Would love to hear others' experiences.
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#64As someone who has never hosted an image service like this, what actions do you have to take to stop "bad" people from using your service? For example, uploading inappropriate / illegal / violent images.
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#65My acid test for image scaling software: http://i.imgur.com/X9vKa2s.png https://i.scaley.io/png-256x128/i.imgur.com/X9vKa2s.png This means that you don't use a linear color space for blending colors. Sorry about the language, the image is not made by me [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120904060524/http://www.4p8.co... edit: I see that your backend relies on libvips to do the resizing. I have no experience with…
Karen handles this PNG reasonably well! https://dl.kraken.io/web/b1c01b1fa0a9b938bea45d8accd0db48/X9...
At the same time shaved off 46% of the size (from 4.02 KB to 2.16 KB)
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#66My acid test for image scaling software: http://i.imgur.com/X9vKa2s.png https://i.scaley.io/png-256x128/i.imgur.com/X9vKa2s.png This means that you don't use a linear color space for blending colors. Sorry about the language, the image is not made by me [1]. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20120904060524/http://www.4p8.co... edit: I see that your backend relies on libvips to do the resizing. I have no experience with…
Can you elaborate on how colors should be blended?
Is it about the choice of interpolation algorithm? nearest neighborhood vs linear vs cubic, etc
I've written image processing code in the past, though color accuracy wasn't important to it, and I'm curious to understand this better.
I also currently use ImageOptim and would be curious to know if it handles this.
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#67Now I'm kicking myself because I did something very similar for one of my clients based on AWS and shared it publicly ( https://github.com/pbudzon/aws-image-gateway )! Not sure how it compares cost-wise, though. It's a combination of CloudFront, API Gateway, Lambda and S3. I'm quite sure CloudFront doesn't have limitations on what you can cache, like Cloudflare seems to have. Like others who commented, I don't get th…
Not your fault. Developers tend to sometimes underestimate the power of releasing a command line utility as a web based/API tool that can help non techies do simple stuff. Image resizing is a recurring candidate but there are others like conversion tools (to pdf), checkers/monitors (ssl for example) etc. Yes, you could do these on your server with a simple cmd line but tons of folks are willing to pay to be able to u…
It feels like a compelling property here is to have a "single point of continuously increasing quality"—that is, one changing chunk of code that is continuously improved and battle tested as more and more users report issues that require workarounds.
(But of course ever-changing externally hosted web services like these have their drawbacks.)
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#68btw I am interested in all kinds of web performance optimization services including image hosting. If anyone is interested to partner up email me at dak@prospectone.io
Could you clarify a little? What do you mean you're interested? You're founding a business and need a technical co-founder? You're a dev founding a business and need a technical partner? You're a dev looking for work in that area?
Might be my English (not a native speaker) but your message isn't clear.
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#69How does this differ from Imgix?
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not bandwidth that is restricted by our terms of service it's... SECTION 10: LIMITATION ON NON-HTML CACHING You acknowledge that Cloudflare’s Service is offered as a platform to cache and serve web pages and websites and is not offered for other purposes, such as remote storage. Accordingly, you understand and agree to use the Service solely for the purpose of hosting and serving web pages as viewed through a we…
You further agree that if [...] if Cloudflare, in its sole discretion, deems it necessary due to [...] other reasons, Cloudflare may suspend or terminate your account without notice to or liability to you. I gotta say, that statement isn't very helpful in letting people know what to avoid doing.
these clauses are pretty common for this type of contract. it allows the service provider to not have to worry about whether or not their contract allows them to kick an abusive customer off their platform.