Webutils
Creative
image conversion and compression
SHOW HN2022
188points
103comments
#311of 2,570 in 2022
Top 13%of 2022 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
7 positive, 18 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 31 comments about the project. Thread score +0.10.
Idea: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, fast client-side tool
From 3 comments
HN feedback has become cancer. OP, this site is great, and even as a highly technical user, I'd use this site in a heart beat. Thank you!
karanbhangui on HNBookmarked! thanks for this amazing tool.
dilliwal on HNNice! Thank you.
skilled on HN
Resize-to-file-size feature is useful
From 1 comment
This looks like a nice alternative to https://squoosh.app/. I particularly like the "resize image to a particular size" (https://www.webutils.app/compress-image-to/50kb) feature,…
jeroenhd on HN
Objections
Browser apps cannot guarantee that data stays local
From 3 comments
This looks like a nice alternative to https://squoosh.app/. I particularly like the "resize image to a particular size" (https://www.webutils.app/compress-image-to/50kb) feature,…
jeroenhd on HNIt may seem negative, but it is also true. You cannot have privacy with web apps. At all. Ever.
bbarnett on HN> Sadly, because of the nature of the web, one can never be sure that the image actually stays within the browser. There's no way to prevent it from secretly sending everything…
scrollaway on HN
Not clearly offline; requires internet to load
From 2 comments
>Bulk convert images online without sending to server If the data never leaves the local, how is it online? "Bulk convert images in the browser without sending to server" seems…
dylan604 on HNHow can it be both online AND not need a server? In this case, it sounds like it's not online -- you can simply save the script.
personjerry on HN
Requests
Add offline support
From 2 comments
It's done, webutils is now PWA and you should be able to use it when offline
akmittal on HNWould it be possible to eliminate the need to be online, so then you could make the much more enticing claim (for privacy-conscious users) that it works offline? Maybe a PWA, or…
hunter2_ on HN
Add RAW file support
From 1 comment
Thanks for building this! Would you be able to add something like dcraw.js for various RAW file support?
arriu on HN
Open source version or npm package for server-side use
From 1 comment
Is there an open sourced version of this so I can process the images the user uploads first before sending it to s3 thus saving space?
KaoruAoiShiho on HN
Questions
How the Squoosh WASM was integrated
From 1 comment
This is so cool! I'm completely new to WASM but excited to learn — how did you use the Squoosh repo to turn it into WASM, and how did you embed that into your app? Is that just a…
yawnxyz on HN
Recommendations for lightweight photo editors
From 2 comments
Oh heavens, this is really neat! Thank you! I love Squoosh but I often have a multiple photos to compress to WEBP. On a similar note, does anyone know similar lightweight…
kretaceous on HNRecommend a good such tool for all kinds of image editing /Cropping/etc in browser?
zerop on HN
Alternatives named
Squoosh
From 2 comments
This looks like a nice alternative to https://squoosh.app/. I particularly like the "resize image to a particular size" (https://www.webutils.app/compress-image-to/50kb) feature,…
jeroenhd on HNOh heavens, this is really neat! Thank you! I love Squoosh but I often have a multiple photos to compress to WEBP. On a similar note, does anyone know similar lightweight…
kretaceous on HN
ImageMagick
From 1 comment
or there's http://www.imagemagick.org/
h2odragon on HN
Photopea
From 1 comment
Oh heavens, this is really neat! Thank you! I love Squoosh but I often have a multiple photos to compress to WEBP. On a similar note, does anyone know similar lightweight…
kretaceous on HN
wasm-vips
From 1 comment
different from vips for webassembly ? https://wasm-vips.kleisauke.nl/playground/
dvhh on HN