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IMG.LY
Company blog · img.ly/blog · on HN as buss_janwebprogramming
IMG.LY is the company blog at img.ly, writing about web and programming. Since 2010, 20 different Hacker News readers have linked it 31 times, most often “The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (14) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mostly bare links and job posts from the IMG.LY site. The few blog links cited point to its FFmpeg guide, a post on building its creative engine, and a post on browser-based background removal.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 14 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
IMG.LY's video, photo and creative SDK brings beautiful creative editing to your applications. Powering 500+ million creations per month.
Most-linked posts?
- The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-11-28
- 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-06-20
- Show HN: A Video Editor SDK for Web Based on WASM and WebCodecs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-12-15
What Hacker News says?
See also: * https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/ * https://ffmpeg.lav.io/ * https://github.com/leandromoreira/ffmpeg-libav-tutorial * https://www.hadet.dev/ffmpeg-cheatsheet/
Comment linking /blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/
on “FFmpeg by Example”Submitted 20x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU as a story · 165 points
HN discussionimg.ly | Engine/Render Architects, UI/UX Engineers, Cloud Architects | Bochum/Ruhrgebiet/Germany | Remote CEST +/- 3-4h | Full-time We are making UBQ Engine, Cloud, and UI Kit, bringing modern code-based design into the graphic design sphere. Think Unity or Unreal Engine but with a focus on graphics and communication design. https://img.ly/blog/building-the-creative-engine-of-the-worl... We are looking for people wi…
Comment linking /blog/building-the-creative-engine-of-the-world/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2021)”Submitted Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing as a story · 80 points
HN discussionIMG.LY | Multiple Software Engineering Positions | Bochum, Germany | Full-time, REMOTE +/- 3-4h CEST | https://img.ly We are a remote-first software startup you've probably never heard of. Over the last few years, we have been working on a PhotoEditor and VideoEditor SDK for web, iOS and Android, which is now used by major brands like Amazon, Disney and many other companies around the world. For our SDK team, we are…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted IE team sends a cupcake for FireFox 5 as a story · 67 points
HN discussionCheck the DNF implementation: Without DNF: http://img.ly/3ksI Enable DNF: http://img.ly/3ksL Presto! http://img.ly/3ksM Also, we now rotate every element on the page instead of just the body. Shakes things up! :)
Comment linking /3ksM
on “Collect HN: Aprils Fools”Submitted The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg as a story · 63 points
HN discussionHi, nice work. I recently also published a WebGPU version of our browser-only background removal library. It's using the onnx-runtime under the hood. Weights are from isnet. It could also run birefnet – if there is some interest – however BirefNet weights are almost 1GB in size, which is a bit much to download I guess. There is a blog post about it and also a CPU only version available. https://img.ly/blog/browser-b…
Comment linking /blog/browser-background-removal-using-onnx-runtime-webgpu/
on “Show HN: Remove-bg – open-source remove background using WebGPU”Submitted FFmpeg – The Ultimate Guide as a story · 47 points
HN discussionIMG.LY | Bochum/Berlin, Germany, Europe | Full Time | REMOTE (+/- 3-4h CE(S)T) | Frontend Engineer We are looking for experienced front-end engineers who love technology and want to enable accessible, stunning design for everyone. Work on our newest flagship CreativeEditor SDK ( https://img.ly/creative-sdk ), a fully-customizable design editor that empowers our customers, and covers their design and template needs.…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2022)”Submitted Show HN: An AI-first visual editor using GPT-4o's GPT-image-1 model as a story · 23 points
HN discussionthere are several web based image editors leveraging webgl out there. Some of them are very good such as https://img.ly/products/photo-sdk or https://www.polarr.com/web/ or https://pqina.nl/pintura/ I hope to match some of them in terms of features, but with a lightweight and opensource solution
Comment linking /products/photo-sdk
on “Show HN: A pure WebGL image editor with filters, crop and perspective correction”Submitted BankSimple is getting real as a story · 19 points
HN discussionI now run Byobu on my servers -- it's made my sysadmin life substantially better -- and for each server I pick a different color for the status bar along the bottom. Production is red for me too. Like this: http://img.ly/images/663862/full
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on “Production is Red, Development is Blue”Submitted Using LLMs for Generative Design Editing as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSince we are talking about SpaceX in here, I figured I would linked to a image Elon posted today of the Grasshopper landing gear. Grasshopper is a testing platform they are creating for an eventual reusable version of the Falcon 9 rocket. http://img.ly/i5JQ
Comment linking /i5JQ
on “SpaceX announces deal to shuttle tourists to private space stations”Submitted Show HN: A Video Editor SDK for Web Based on WASM and WebCodecs as a story · 10 points
HN discussionSee issue #395 below. That stops most mobile applications--except those on the iPhone--from using OAuth. See http://twitpic.com/api.do , http://img.ly/pages/API , http://code.google.com/p/imageshackapi/wiki/YFROGuploadAndPo... , http://twitrpix.com/api , http://twic.li/api . All of them require and/or allow the client app to pass the user's Twitter username and password.
Comment linking /pages/API
on “7 Major Sites that Send Passwords Unprotected, & China's Deep Packet Inspection”Submitted How I Built a Short Video Generator with AI and CE.SDK in One Day as a story · 7 points
HN discussionhttp://img.ly/zY3 this is my home setup. unfortunately the big screen is best used only for reference, otherwise it strains my neck.
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on “Ask HN: What does your development environment look like?”Submitted Really hard fifth grade math problem as a story · 5 points
HN discussionThis looks like a solid start. The solutions in this space are really lacking. I would say that you should look at existing competitors' offerings - https://rendleysdk.com and https://img.ly/products/creative-sdk You should consider adding a live demo to the docs. You should also consider shipping a fully-realized UI component so that it can be adopted out of the box with just a few lines (or perhaps even just a sin…
Comment linking /products/creative-sdk
on “Show HN: Twick SDK – an open-source React video editing toolkit”Submitted Vibe-Engineering: When AI Does All the Coding, What Do We Do? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionCheck out https://ffmpeg.guide/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33383023 ) See also https://img.ly/blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/ ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33771445 )
Comment linking /blog/ultimate-guide-to-ffmpeg/
on “FFmpeg 6.0”Submitted Show HN: SDK for Building AI-Powered Creative Tools as a story · 2 points
HN discussionbut there is webcodecs now. https://img.ly/showcases/cesdk/web/video-ui/standalone/index...
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on “Online video editor: Why I switched from FFmpeg WASM to a server-side solution”Submitted Show HN: A GenAI image benchmark for production design work as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Show HN: A fully cross-platform design editor SDK as a story · 1 points
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