[lukechesser]

So the resizing alone makes Imgix very valuable to us. We're in an interesting situation though, where we have relatively few `master` images, but hundreds of renders per image, which are then seen millions of times each month. That's a perfect fit with Imgix's pricing model.

We tried Imgix on a few other products where we had tens of thousands of images being uploaded each month and only seen a couple hundred times per image. That became prohibitively expensive — which is probably a similar situation that you ended up in (high number of `master` images to render ratio).

In addition to realtime resizing, we use:

- face detection - typesetting - overlays - cropping/point of interest cropping - color palette - exif/image metadata - client hints - automatic content negotiation

Pretty much everything except their watermarking endpoint haha ;)

[Bluestrike2]

Out of curiosity, why are you seeing hundreds of renders per image? I'd think it'd be significantly fewer than that, unless you've got a lot of stuff going on in the background that isn't really obvious--it sounds like you're sometimes doing some significant editing beyond what the photographer has already done.

[anonymoushn]

That's a lot of stuff! I certainly couldn't make a good argument for writing a replacement for all those features. Thanks!