[blowski]

Bit off-topic, but... it feels like there's a trend towards "x as a service" away from "x as open-source software". Is that something other people are seeing, or is it just my imagination?

[egonschiele]

There's an in-between trend of "X as open-source software but we can host it for you as a service". It seems like a pretty promising way for open source projects to still make money. I think if an open source project can figure out how function as a business, that's a sign it will stick around.

[sfeng]

This is actually also an OS project it appears: https://github.com/asm-products/firesize

[nthtran]

Firesize uses ImageMagick, which in my experience consumes more memory and is slower than libvips [1] for simple image resizing/optimization.

I built a simple image-resizing server with a query string API using libvips [2]. This is based on sharp [3], a good wrapper of libvips for Node.js.

[1] https://github.com/jcupitt/libvips

[2] https://github.com/nthtran/imgop

[3] https://github.com/lovell/sharp

[iamsalman]

We wrote the complete image processing oursleves, accelerated on GPUs @ https://IMGX.io (checkout Image URL API).

[rcklmbr]

Definitely seeing it. But if you want open source, check out imagesquish https://github.com/dmcquay/imagesquish