Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
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Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#2Hey HN,
I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality.
I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well.
The tool is completely free.
I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpeed even better.
Thanks!
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#3Hey HN, I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality. I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well. The tool is completely free. I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpee…
The tool is completely free
Long term, how do you intend to sustain the service if users become dependent on it and need to use it at scale?
How do you intend to maintain reliability and uptime for users whose business depends on access to the service?
What happens to users if/when you lose interest/ability to continue the project?
Don't get me wrong, you don't owe other people anything. On the other hand, free is often a way of avoiding really hard (and very interesting) engineering problems. People are the hard part of engineering.
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#4Hey HN, I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality. I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well. The tool is completely free. I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpee…
> By clicking the Submit button you automatically accept our policies. Please take a momento to read them.
You can make it easier for your users to read the policies if "policies" is a link to your policies. Also, I think you mean "moment to" instead of "momento."
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#5Hey HN, I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality. I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well. The tool is completely free. I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpee…
The tool is completely free Long term, how do you intend to sustain the service if users become dependent on it and need to use it at scale? How do you intend to maintain reliability and uptime for users whose business depends on access to the service? What happens to users if/when you lose interest/ability to continue the project? Don't get me wrong, you don't owe other people anything. On the other hand, free is of…
If people aren't paying, none of those are problems. The second you charge, that's when the headaches come.
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#6Hey HN, I created PixSpeed to optimize images for my own websites. While tools like TinyPNG are fantastic, I wanted a more custom solution. PixSpeed compresses PNG, JPEG, and WebP images efficiently, helping to improve site loading times without compromising quality. I've been using it myself and hope it can be useful for others as well. The tool is completely free. I'd love to get feedback on what could make PixSpee…
The tool is completely free Long term, how do you intend to sustain the service if users become dependent on it and need to use it at scale? How do you intend to maintain reliability and uptime for users whose business depends on access to the service? What happens to users if/when you lose interest/ability to continue the project? Don't get me wrong, you don't owe other people anything. On the other hand, free is of…
"All images are deleted after 1 hour" - so they're using a server and it's a valid ask.
My question is - why does this require a server?
Write it in something that compiles to LLVM / WASM and just make a static page. Infinitely scalable and just pay for the domain (and CDN provider if applicable) both likely nominal cost.
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tool is completely free Long term, how do you intend to sustain the service if users become dependent on it and need to use it at scale? How do you intend to maintain reliability and uptime for users whose business depends on access to the service? What happens to users if/when you lose interest/ability to continue the project? Don't get me wrong, you don't owe other people anything. On the other hand, free is of…
"All images are deleted after 1 hour" - so they're using a server and it's a valid ask. My question is - why does this require a server? Write it in something that compiles to LLVM / WASM and just make a static page. Infinitely scalable and just pay for the domain (and CDN provider if applicable) both likely nominal cost.
Or why is it not a simple shell call to Imagemagick?
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#8nit: "Please take a momento to read them."
Should say "Please take a moment to read them.
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#9The best feature of my purpose-built static site generator is that it automatically builds (mostly) optimized WEBPs from any source image [1]. Not only does it reduce the image size, but it outputs many sizes of the image so that I can use an image `srcset`. The browser then automatically downloads the optimally sized image for the element.
It's a game changer to be able to copy photos directly from my Google Photos and not worry about it bloating my web pages.
[1] https://github.com/JosephNaberhaus/naberhausj.com/blob/05846...
Re: Show HN: I built PixSpeed to optimize website images for free
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tool is completely free Long term, how do you intend to sustain the service if users become dependent on it and need to use it at scale? How do you intend to maintain reliability and uptime for users whose business depends on access to the service? What happens to users if/when you lose interest/ability to continue the project? Don't get me wrong, you don't owe other people anything. On the other hand, free is of…
"All images are deleted after 1 hour" - so they're using a server and it's a valid ask. My question is - why does this require a server? Write it in something that compiles to LLVM / WASM and just make a static page. Infinitely scalable and just pay for the domain (and CDN provider if applicable) both likely nominal cost.
It can pull images from a domain.
That would be difficult (since for client-side rendered sites it would require loading the site in a sandboxed environment) or impossible (if the site actively prevents that using CORS or similar, or if it happens to include scripts which expect to be run in a normal environment).