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I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com. It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a customizable upload widget and serves files via a CDN and firewall to protect against attacks. It doesn't have query param image resizing yet, but it's coming!

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Ha! I started building the same thing. Luckily for you I never finished it ;-D

(just to clarify tone above, it's a total joke because your implementation is a lot better than mine was tracking to be)

Cool to see this here! I've been following your journey on the Software Social podcast [0] and it's awesome to watch the project progress. I also really enjoy that the podcast is not all sunshine and rainbows, like you actually talk about the ups and downs and it's great. We need more like it.

[0] https://softwaresocial.dev/

Isn't it a bit too easy to exploit this? Like by maliciously uploading tons of data to the account of a site using this service in order to exceed their limit and hence break their file upload process.

There is no free plan.

Wow, this looks so awesome! Really simple UI too — gonna have to give this a try. I was just struggling with some client-side image upload stuff last week, and I love the idea of doing the full service integration from client to backend as a product.

BTW - I’m part of the dev advocate team at Cloudflare, would you want to chat sometime about your experience with Images? Definitely would love to hear your perspective as a dev on what could be better!

What Colleen has built is indeed quite simple to use.

You just add the JS snippet, SFU handles all the storage and just returns a URL.

And bonus points, it's directly uploaded to S3. From the documentation: "Simple File Upload uses direct uploads. In a direct upload, a file is uploaded to S3 from a user's browser, without first passing through your app."

oh its leenyburger! loving that you are building it in public on your Software Social podcast. listening to you two over the past year has been really educational.

thanks for listening, swyx!

THANK YOU!been looking for a upload img simple api to use for my new app im building.

What a fantastic service! I really like how focused it is. Just file upload. Database? No. Confusing terms? No. File upload? yes.

In the same context, if you would use .net. I really like ImageResizer : https://github.com/imazen/resizer

Just FYI, your front page is broken in Firefox with default uBlock Origin settings. Considering potential audience, you might want to fix that. The pricing page is fine.

This doesn’t really seem to solve any of the issues raised in the blog post though?

The limit is 5MB, and the default cost per month would allow you to serve 3.5M images from CF.

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