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Show HN: Imgix Sandbox – Explore on-demand image processing

by zacman85 on 7/28/15, 6:47 PM with 18 comments

• by notduncansmith on 7/28/15, 11:52 PM

  I'd like to give a big shout-out to Imgix, they've built a truly useful service. Their landing page copy features lines like "You can't build this in a weekend" and "This isn't ImageMagick running on EC2" - and from what I've seen using them, they live up to it. Kudos on a great product, Imgix team (and congrats on the recent funding)!

  P.S. We tried using Cloudinary at first, but Imgix turned out to be much easier to manage. A killer feature for us was allowing us to source images from an S3 bucket (a feature Cloudinary only exposes to Enterprise customers).

• by mmastrac on 7/29/15, 12:16 AM

  I was skeptical about imgix, but I recently plugged it into a CMS for a startup I was helping out as a simple image editor + transcoding service. It did pretty much all the work: all I did was add a few buttons to alter the bri/con/vib parameters, and hook the crop up to simple jQuery cropper plugin.

  We're also using it as a way to upload jpeg2000 files from iOS devices to save on bandwidth, which will then appear properly on Android and desktop.

  I'd say it saved me a fair bit of infrastructure work.

  EDIT: They had an outage the other day where new images weren't being cached that was fixed within a few hours (that sucked), but were awesome enough to provide a root cause for me.

• by cscharenberg on 7/28/15, 11:37 PM

  Looks very similar to Cloudinary (http://cloudinary.com) which I use for my startup. The pricing at lower end of images looks better for Imgix but doesn't scale as well. Still, I think cloud-hosted image processing is a great service and I'm glad there is competition in it. It let us skip huge amounts of dev work related to constructing image pipelines and organizing assets: we pay $40 (plus more for some addons) and get a massive image layer. Imgix, Cloudinary, and others let you focus on the unique parts of your own software at a really good price.

• by choonkeat on 7/29/15, 2:17 AM

  having an image server with apis solves 80% of the problem.

  having a client counterpart lib to ease you in solves the other 80% https://github.com/choonkeat/attache_rails

  being able to host it yourself solves the last 20% https://github.com/choonkeat/attache

• by biturd on 7/29/15, 1:48 AM

  as per the notes, I am forwarding this error message on:

  404 Not Found The server can not find the requested page:

  www.texturequalitypro.com/assets/files/content_files/TextureQualityPro_Large_Sample.jpg?w=250&border=5&txt=this+is+a+test&vib=20 (port 443) Please forward this error screen to www.texturequalitypro.com's WebMaster.

  Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at www.texturequalitypro.com Port 443

• by monksy on 7/28/15, 11:47 PM

  So this is imagmagik as a service?