Kraken.io

The website looks extremely professional, very well done.

My quick 5 minute review of this site is: nice work. The design and feel of the site itself is very polished and professional. I threw a handful of "optimized" images at it, and…

Nice site. I found 5% savings on about 40kb. Every little helps. It's fantastic that you've made a free web interface, but it would be great if we could enter a URL and it would…

Very nicely done, kraken-io! Just threw over 500 images at it (mainly PNGs, but a few JPGs and GIFs as well), virtually all of which I had optimized beforehand. For the PNGs, I…

I am very impressed with the website design and the well thought through and fast user interface. It seemed to be able to gain around 5% in average. This is not useful for me…

Excellent news! I work for a very large publisher in Canada that uses WordPress as its CMS of choice. Because we use Akamai and shrug at bandwidth costs, I don't have much of an…

I like it. I had the same idea - not that it's a difficult idea to have. Well executed. However, I have some criticism. > We like to think the only way to get your image files…

My quick 5 minute review of this site is: nice work. The design and feel of the site itself is very polished and professional. I threw a handful of "optimized" images at it, and…

I'd love to see a pay as you go option. I run a SaaS where the user can select a profile picture, however, we usually get users with 100-150 at a time, then maybe nothing for a…

Very nice website and service, only thing I found an issue with was the max file size - 8MB. This is very small. Imagine if someone wanted to take a bunch of photos straight out…

I'm building a service right now that is a community site for people in the fashion photography (photographers/models/etc) world. The images that these people upload are…

> For the PNGs, I had used 4 different optimizers (PNGCrush, OptiPNG, AdvPNG, and PNGOut), but almost all images saw size reductions in lossless mode ranging from under 1% to…

And don't have to transmit your images over the net.. and.. and... Frankly, I don't understand how anyone would want to pay USD 250 per year to get a service which albeit behind…

Well, there's where the problem is. I want to do a clean build on each deploy, and there will be many devs on many machines building it, so handling it locally isn't really…

I really like the service but PLEASE please do not strip all metadata out of photos uploaded by your users. Stripping out the EXIF/IPTC copyright information creates an orphan…

I tried quickly with a PNG screenshot, and found that the result was bigger than what ImageOptim could do. It seems to me that you're not stripping color profile information, you…

I like it. I had the same idea - not that it's a difficult idea to have. Well executed. However, I have some criticism. > We like to think the only way to get your image files…

1. How does it compare to JPEGmini? 2. You need a (good) Wordpress plugin.

I second the WordPress plugin idea - I've got a few clients I'd sign up (probably only on the micro 500/month sized plan).

We are developing our official WP plugin at the moment. We are bound to have something to show in the 1-2 weeks from now.

I'd love to see a pay as you go option. I run a SaaS where the user can select a profile picture, however, we usually get users with 100-150 at a time, then maybe nothing for a…

Very nice website and service, only thing I found an issue with was the max file size - 8MB. This is very small. Imagine if someone wanted to take a bunch of photos straight out…

I'm building a service right now that is a community site for people in the fashion photography (photographers/models/etc) world. The images that these people upload are…

This looks great! How would I use this as part of an asset pipeline? If I'm running it as part of an automated process, I'd love to see prices that support that model, as well as…

Thanks for the reply. As someone being into photography I would like to have the functionality that kraken provides on my local machine; even saving 10% on my huge pile of…

What would be the difference from tools like http://tinypng.org and http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo ?

1. How does it compare to JPEGmini? 2. You need a (good) Wordpress plugin.

Do you have PCI DSS certification ? The credit card number is going through your servers.

How does wirecard verify your PCI DSS? It's usually a SAQ and pen scans.

Just had a thought. If I generate 8MB PNG files with noise in them and upload 1000 of such files, your servers will choke. Maybe you should charge per MB.

No, I mean it can be used to DoS you. Give it a try. Optimizing even one 8MB noise PNG is a huge amount of CPU work.

http://imageoptim.com/ Similarly you can get some pretty good optimisations with the local, and open source OSX app, which is itself just a frontend for free linux utilities.

What would be the difference from tools like http://tinypng.org and http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo ?

Exactly what I was thinking. JPEGmini works better in my tests.

What would be the difference from tools like http://tinypng.org and http://www.jpegmini.com/main/shrink_photo ?

Surprised no one has mentioned Yahoo!'s smushit.com service yet. It even works nearly identically (minus the API). Kraken seems to do a tad better in the handful of images I…