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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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