Firesize
Infrastructure
image resizing service
SHOW HN2015
58points
41comments
#486of 2,565 in 2015
Top 19%of 2015 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 10 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score -0.31.
Idea: 2 for, 4 againstExecution: 0 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for saving developer time on image handling
From 1 comment
Depending on what you are building, yes. This can save a developer a good portion of a day between the code, file storage and CDN.
jaredstenquist on HN
Objections
No public pricing page
From 1 comment
Looks great. I see mention of limits, but there is no pricing page. It's hard to adopt a service if I have no idea what it will cost me. I have used Embed.ly's similar service in…
jaredstenquist on HN
Only available in the US region
From 1 comment
"This app is in region eu, firesize is only available in region us." Thats a shame. But is guess getting manually hooked up would work for this case too?
ahultgren on HN
Slow image loading and missing abuse protection
From 2 comments
Great :), first impressions: I've seen a few of these before and the things I remember I liked about them was the ability to provide a default image incase you cannot load the…
jastanton on HNIs there anything yet to prevent abuse? For example, in the case of Cloudinary, they allow signing of URLs[0] to prevent anyone from just using your account to serve arbitrary…
michaelmior on HN
Web of Trust gives the domain a poor safety rating
From 1 comment
Just so you know, Web of Trust gives firesize.com a "Very Poor" Trustworthiness and Child Safety rating.…
ljqwfk83id on HN
Requests
URL signing and domain whitelisting
From 1 comment
Yep, we're actively building both url whitelists per Firesize account and url signing.
vanstee on HN
Face detection gravity and smart crop
From 2 comments
Great :), first impressions: I've seen a few of these before and the things I remember I liked about them was the ability to provide a default image incase you cannot load the…
jastanton on HNI like your pricing model much more--I don't like how Cloudinary charges me for storage, because I don't want them to store the images, just transform them. What I would need to…
jdotjdot on HN
S3 bucket source support
From 1 comment
Do you have a utility that lets me port over my named transformations from Cloudinary? Also, is there any way to pull images directly from an S3 bucket rather than from my Heroku…
jdotjdot on HN
Default fallback image
From 1 comment
Great :), first impressions: I've seen a few of these before and the things I remember I liked about them was the ability to provide a default image incase you cannot load the…
jastanton on HN
Questions
Post-beta pricing
From 1 comment
Free during beta, but how much will it cost after? Are you going to limit access through the Referrer header? Why do I need a Heroku addon if I can just use a Firesize URL from…
fiatjaf on HN
Can the code be run on your own Heroku instance
From 1 comment
Great :), first impressions: I've seen a few of these before and the things I remember I liked about them was the ability to provide a default image incase you cannot load the…
jastanton on HN
Alternatives named
Cloudinary
From 2 comments
Do you have a utility that lets me port over my named transformations from Cloudinary? Also, is there any way to pull images directly from an S3 bucket rather than from my Heroku…
jdotjdot on HNVery similar to Cloudinary, though they have more advanced features as well. worth checking out IMO.
shachar on HN
Embed.ly
From 1 comment
Looks great. I see mention of limits, but there is no pricing page. It's hard to adopt a service if I have no idea what it will cost me. I have used Embed.ly's similar service in…
jaredstenquist on HN
Thumbor
From 1 comment
We are using thumbor self hosted to solve a similar problem. It evens smart crop with opencv features detection, like people faces.
xfalcox on HN
Nginx image filter module
From 1 comment
Nginx can do this with the ngx_http_image_filter_module (included in stock distribution): https://neosmart.net/blog/2014/nginx-wordpress-images-with-ngx_http_image_filter_module/
ComputerGuru on HN
imagesquish
From 1 comment
Definitely seeing it. But if you want open source, check out imagesquish https://github.com/dmcquay/imagesquish
rcklmbr on HN
Cloudimage
From 1 comment
what different things do you offer than cloudimage? http://cloudimage.io/
pajtai on HN