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24 alternatives to I made a super-simple image CDN
Hi HN, MageCDN is a simple and affordable image hosting service I have been working on for the past few weeks. The idea came out of my own frustration with hosting and optimizing images for my blog. While platforms like Imgur make it really simple to upload images, they don't allow you to embed them. Services like Cloudinary, Imagekit exist, but I found them too complex for my needs. Plus, they get really expensive past their free tier. So, I started MageCDN with three simple goals: - pricing should be affordable and scale linearly. - basic image operations (resize, crop, optimize) should be…
MageCDN is an image hosting and content delivery service designed for bloggers and content creators who need simple image optimization without complexity or high costs. It offers basic operations like resizing… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I made a super-simple image CDN launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Securely upload images and videos + Share links instantly
2025 · imagekit.io · its alternatives →
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Connect your existing cloud files to Fastio, then give Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, and other AI agents secure file intelligence for search, analysis, and coordinated work.
2019 · fast.io · its alternatives →
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2019 · imgz.org · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm James, a 17-year old full-stack engineer from Canada with a strong passion for building software. During the day, I work for a California-based startup, and in the evenings, I enjoy working on side projects[1][2]. For the past 3 years, I've been building and iterating on a product I called Horizon Pics, which is a file hosting service, similar to mainstream services, like Imgur. Horizon allows you to quickly upload and store all types of files, from images and video, to PDFs and other documents. The biggest differentiating factor is that Horizon's incentives are much more aligned…
2024 · horizon.pics · its alternatives →
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I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →
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GraphCDN▲360The GraphQL CDN with caching, analytics and security
2021 · stellate.co · its alternatives →
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Hey guys! We just published our little open source project on GitHub and would love to get some feedback. It's a very early release (alpha) but we thought it would be better to do it earlier so that we could get direct feedback. Over the last 10 years we have built small to large web-projects of all kind. Almost every project involved managing images and files in one way or another. How do we manage our images and where? What happens if an image or logo changes, does it get updated across all sites? Which Host/CDN to choose? Is everything we do GDPR-compliant? With Daminik, we are…
2024 · daminik.com · its alternatives →
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Today's internet is filled with dopamine wells of content. I wanted to steer away from that and foster meaningful writing. So I made a site where you can only have a single post. The intention is to encourage thoughtful posts like the blogs we all love here at HN (Paul Graham's, fasterthanlime, Bartosz Ciechanowski's, etc). For now posts are only markdown, but I intend to make some markdown extensions to make posts more dynamic.
2022 · app.pressnt.net · its alternatives →
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Like others on here, I was inspired by the "personal blogs" post :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36575081 In proper HN fashion, the site is open-source and requires no JS! There's instructions on how to add/edit a blog on the Github README. [1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/blogs.hn Note that your blog might appear in blogs.json, but not on the site! Right now I'm using the following code to filter out blogs. Your blog might appear if you add more metadata: if ( 3 > 0 + !!blog.title + (blog.desc.length > 40) + !!blog.about + !!blog.now +…
2023 · blogs.hn · its alternatives →
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Stellate is now open for everybody with edge caching, query analytics, error tracking and protection from malicious queries for your GraphQL APIs.
2021 · graphcdn.io · its alternatives →
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Developer-first image CDN with URL-based transformations. Auto WebP/AVIF/JXL conversion, real-time resize & crop, 200+ edge locations, zero bandwidth fees. Free plan available.
Feb 2026 · img-src.io · its alternatives →
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Lightening-fast content delivery network
2024 · flashedgecdn.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, this is a project I've been working on for about 2 months. I am definitely not a designer, so I tried to keep the GUI to minimum and really make the presentation about photos and as fluid as possible. Any feedback welcome! :)
2012 · dofsome.com · its alternatives →
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I figured, "what better way to look at a list of (hopefully) inspiring projects?" The upvotes work and are globally synced.
2024 · guycombinator.net · its alternatives →
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image upload, Free Image Hosting, Upload Image
2021 · subirimagenes.com · its alternatives →
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Easily store and share Images online.
2024 · its alternatives →
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Picture Kit▲10I’ve been working on a side project for a while and wanted to share it with the HN community to get feedback. The idea started simple: I wanted to do batch image processing entirely in the browser without uploading anything to a server. Most existing tools were either cloud-based (privacy concerns, slow for large batches) or desktop apps that were hard to automate and combine into workflows. A big source of inspiration was macOS Automator. I really liked how you could chain small actions into repeatable workflows, and I wanted something similar for image processing on the web. At first it…
Jan 2026 · picturekit.app · its alternatives →
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Publish a simple, cheap, CDN backed, static website using a single AWS CloudFormation script - lifebeyondfife/simple-static-website
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free, anonymous, permanent file hosting — no login needed
Nov 2025 · iimg.live · its alternatives →
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