Hey hunters! 👋
Excited to share change.photos with you today - it's a platform built specifically for developers who need to handle image transformations at scale using an API.
As a developer, I've always found image processing to be unnecessarily complex. For example, Zapier has broken integrations for image transformations. Whether you need to resize thousands of product photos, compress user uploads, or add filters to profile pictures, it usually involves wrestling with complex libraries or spinning up dedicated servers.
change.photos simplifies this with single API calls. Want to resize an image? It's just one API call. Need to compress a photo to reduce file size? One call.
Key features:
- Transform images with simple API calls (resize, compress, sharpen, blur, etc.)
- Optimized for high-volume processing
- Format conversion (JPEG, PNG, WebP, etc.)
- FREE tools! (change.photos/tools)
Besides offering an API, ALL photo tools are FREE to use! If you're looking to change your photos and don't need an API and your photos are anywhere between 2-4MB, you can use it without paying a cent!
I built this because I believe image processing should be as simple as possible, letting developers and designers focus on building great products rather than managing image pipelines.
Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback! I'll be around all day to answer questions and discuss potential use cases.
About change.photos on Product Hunt
“The photo API for developers”
change.photos launched on Product Hunt on December 24th, 2024 and earned 126 upvotes and 6 comments, placing #10 on the daily leaderboard. Resize, compress, sharpen, blur and transform photos at scale. Change photos with single API calls.
On the analytics side, change.photos competes within Design Tools, API and Photography — topics that collectively have 500.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how change.photos performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted change.photos?
change.photos was hunted by Alex. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of change.photos including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Alex