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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by blowski on Saturday March 21, 2015 @05:30PM (#9244274)
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?
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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by egonschiele on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:08PM (#9245400)
There's an in-between trend of "X as open-source software but we can host it for you as a service". It seems like a pretty promising way for open source projects to still make money. I think if an open source project can figure out how function as a business, that's a sign it will stick around.
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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by sfeng on Saturday March 21, 2015 @08:43PM (#9244965)
This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize
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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by nthtran on Saturday March 21, 2015 @09:08PM (#9245040)
Firesize uses ImageMagick, which in my experience consumes more memory and is slower than libvips [1] for simple image resizing/optimization.

I built a simple image-resizing server with a query string API using libvips [2]. This is based on sharp [3], a good wrapper of libvips for Node.js.

[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips

[2] https://github.com/nthtran/imgop

[3] https://github.com/lovell/sharp

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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by iamsalman on Sunday March 22, 2015 @04:41AM (#9246061)
We wrote the complete image processing oursleves, accelerated on GPUs @ https://IMGX.io (checkout Image URL API).
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Re:Show HN: Firesize – On-the-fly image resizing, no code re... by rcklmbr on Saturday March 21, 2015 @06:42PM (#9244505)
Definitely seeing it. But if you want open source, check out imagesquish https://github.com/dmcquay/imagesquish
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