MageCDN
Infrastructure
image hosting cdn
SHOW HN2024
48points
40comments
#1,321of 3,515 in 2024
Top 38%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
1 positive, 13 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 13 critical, out of 28 comments about the project. Thread score -0.42.
Pricing: 0 for, 6 againstIdea: 0 for, 4 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good luck and congratulations on the launch
From 2 comments
Congratulations to your launch! While I hope you all the best, I am wondering about the target audience? If I have so many images, I want to use a CDN instead of the native…
jdnbndhxb on HNGood on you to build a tool to scratch your itch! As another poster highlighted, hosting other people's content is tricky. Its certainly not a business I would rather be in. I…
ruckusing on HN
Objections
Denial of wallet risk from traffic spikes with no spending cap
From 3 comments
The only thing that worries me about usage-based pricing is denial of wallet attacks. You mention there won’t be any surprise bills but if someone decides to hammer my image for…
janalsncm on HNThey use Bunny CDN who charge about $10/TB (it can be more or less depending on network choice and bulk). If magecdn doesn't support setting a cap then their "no surprise…
tredre3 on HNWe had instances in the past where an image (or other user generated content) suddenly got popular in china or japan and suddenly exhibited the same behaviour as a DDOS but it…
anonzzzies on HN
Image CDN market is saturated and big CDNs offer image processing
From 3 comments
Given Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly all offer image processing this isn’t a market I’d get into
youngtaff on HNI hope it works out, it looks nice but we’re almost over saturated with image hosting options. I feel like a better option would be creating an open source project of the…
hk1337 on HNImage CDN primarily offers image resizing, especially useful for responsive images. It has a sizable market, both Cloudflare and AWS offer image processing service, see also…
curben on HN
Hosting user content brings abuse and illegal uploads with no automated checks
From 2 comments
Hosting user-generated content makes it inevitable that someone will upload unsavory or even illegal content, are you using some kind image processing to identify that content…
m-p-3 on HNThis was one of the main reasons I didn't offer a free plan. Currently, there are no automated checks since there isn't a huge volume and it's pretty doable manually. But if the…
shubhamjain on HN
Pricing page says bandwidth but charges data transfer
From 2 comments
Congrats on the launch. A small nit re: your pricing: you're charging for data transfer (bytes transferred over a long period of time), not bandwidth (bits transmitted at a point…
matsur on HNThe problem here is not selling data transfer, it's that the pricing page says "15GB Bandwidth / mo" when it's selling data transfer.
strken on HN
Company could fail, risky to trust image hosting to it
From 1 comment
There's not a chance in hell I'm trusting image hosting to a company that could go under in a couple of weeks or months.
mvuijlst on HN
Requests
Add a DMCA report button
From 1 comment
No DMCA report button... this is going to be interesting.
ranger_danger on HN
Explain differences from BunnyCDN in a dedicated page
From 1 comment
These points make sense, if I where you I'd add a page explaining these in some detail. Heck, maybe A/B test conversion rate explaining and not, but I'm guessing a lot of people…
emmanueloga_ on HN
Questions
Why not use BunnyCDN directly or a general CDN
From 3 comments
I was wondering the same thing, why not using BunnyCDN directly? [1] -- 1: https://bunny.net/optimizer/transform-api/
emmanueloga_ on HNWould be good to have some rationale or understanding why someone would use this other than a broad based CDN such as CloudFlare or AWS? Are image only CDN's a sustainable…
bentocorp on HNinteresting, is this an interface on top of BunnyCDN? Would they be cheaper than Cloudflare image CDN?
yawnxyz on HN
Whether there is a spending cap on usage
From 2 comments
The only thing that worries me about usage-based pricing is denial of wallet attacks. You mention there won’t be any surprise bills but if someone decides to hammer my image for…
janalsncm on HNThey use Bunny CDN who charge about $10/TB (it can be more or less depending on network choice and bulk). If magecdn doesn't support setting a cap then their "no surprise…
tredre3 on HN
How abuse and illegal content are detected
From 1 comment
Hosting user-generated content makes it inevitable that someone will upload unsavory or even illegal content, are you using some kind image processing to identify that content…
m-p-3 on HN
Alternatives named
BunnyCDN
From 2 comments
interesting, is this an interface on top of BunnyCDN? Would they be cheaper than Cloudflare image CDN?
yawnxyz on HNI was wondering the same thing, why not using BunnyCDN directly? [1] -- 1: https://bunny.net/optimizer/transform-api/
emmanueloga_ on HN
Cloudinary, Imagekit, Cloudflare and AWS image processing
From 2 comments
Image CDN primarily offers image resizing, especially useful for responsive images. It has a sizable market, both Cloudflare and AWS offer image processing service, see also…
curben on HNGiven Akamai, Cloudflare and Fastly all offer image processing this isn’t a market I’d get into
youngtaff on HN
pict-rs
From 1 comment
There's already a bunch of these, like pict-rs[0] which is used by Lemmy [0] https://git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/
OsrsNeedsf2P on HN
AWS Serverless Image Handler
From 1 comment
Good on you to build a tool to scratch your itch! As another poster highlighted, hosting other people's content is tricky. Its certainly not a business I would rather be in. I…
ruckusing on HN