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Transloadit
Company blog · transloadit.com/blogwebprogramming
Transloadit is the company blog at transloadit.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2010, 34 different Hacker News readers have linked it 83 times, most often “Transloadit: Outsourced file uploading for your web app”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 5 of 31 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Transloadit as a hosted file upload, image and video processing API, often as an alternative to running ImageMagick or encoders on S3. One cites its image-scaling blog post.
- Recommended for · 5 comments
- Called the API elegant, the service reliable and fast, and the company impressive; security approach praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 31 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Upload, process, store, and deliver files through one API. Build image processing, video encoding and document workflows with Transloadit.
Most-linked posts?
- Transloadit: Outsourced file uploading for your web app10 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2010-03-19
- /9 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2010-07-13
- /5 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2010-05-18
- /3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2013-04-17
- Let's Build: a 2-hr YouTube clone2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-01-02
- Changing our legal entity from Ltd to GmbH2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12
What Hacker News says?
Vacancy not online yet, but Transloadit is looking for a parttimer to help us maintain open source projects such as our sdks and uppy.io and tus.io. Ideal for IT students or bootstrapping founders with a few hours a week to spare. Remote first/only. Find out if we're a cultural match on https://transloadit.com/jobs . You can email hello@transloadit.com with your github account and short motivation if you're interest…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2016)”Submitted Realtime encoding - over 150x faster as a story · 128 points
HN discussionJust launched with a blog post here https://transloadit.com/blog/2020/05/announcing-the-transloa...
Comment linking /blog/2020/05/announcing-the-transloadit-terraform-provider/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2020)”Submitted Let's Build: a 2-hr YouTube clone as a story · 11 points
HN discussionTransloadit | Technical writer | Part-time | Remote | https://transloadit.com/jobs/ Hi, founder at Transloadit here. We just posted a vacancy today. To summarize: Our company is looking for a developer who enjoys technical writing to provide content around our projects in the form of blog posts, documentation, tutorials and walkthroughs. In essence, you’ll be paid to hang out in our various Slack channels and play a…
Comment linking /jobs/2018-10-technical-writer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Submitted Launching a new version of ImageMagick as a story · 6 points
HN discussionYes, that's totally the description of Transloadit https://transloadit.com/ You import from your own storage and export wherever you want also, we handle the encoding and transformation for you. We don't support CloudFront yet, but we support export/import from S3 and a lot of other providers. Disclaimer: I work for the company
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on “Issues with Cloudflare Images”Submitted Tus 1.0-prerelease as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTransloadit | Front-end Developer | World | REMOTE OPEN-SOURCE REACT PART-TIME https://transloadit.com Transloadit is looking for an experienced front-end dev who can help us up to 15 hours a week to help shape our next-gen file uploader: https://uppy.io . We're thinking this could be fun for front-end developers with some spare time that enjoy working on open source and getting paid some for that ($3k/mo). Experien…
Comment linking /jobs/2017-02-open-source-frontend-dev/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)”Submitted Transloadit: Outsourced file uploading for your web app as a story · 6 points
HN discussionTransloadit.com | Digital Marketing & Sales INTERN | REMOTE Transloadit is a cloud encoder for images, video, and other content that needs marshalling around the internet. I’m not fond of labels, but B2B & SaaS seem to apply! We’re looking for interns to help with our content, marketing strategy, run ads and sales. Currently thinking we’d like both a marketing and a sales intern to work in conjunction. We’re light o…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2018)”Submitted The Community Plan – Transloadit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionTransloadit | Suppor Engineer | Remote | ~20h a week For any developer with some hours to spare, we’re looking to expand the support team for our file encoding API. You’ll help customers (devs themselves) integrate with our service and suggest changes to our own dev team to smoothen their experience. Transloadit spends 80% of revenue on open source and this defines our open culture. You may know us from https://uppy…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2020)”Submitted Running tus in production – Transloadit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionCorrect! :) We're a remote company but had a good time there during our Amsterdam meetup ( https://transloadit.com/blog/2016/03/transloadit-team-meetup... )
Comment linking /blog/2016/03/transloadit-team-meetup/
on “Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading”Submitted Building a free image CDN with Cloudflare R2 and workers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTransloadit | Remote | Freelance | Part-Time | Senior Technical Content Writer https://transloadit.com is a bootstrapped and profitable file processing service for developers. People have said: think Adobe suite as an API. Plenty wrong with that analogy but if it helps to frame a bit :) We want to publish one or two blog posts a month covering our open source technology ( https://uppy.io , https://tus.io ) and encod…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”Submitted Changing our legal entity from Ltd to GmbH as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTransloadit | Support Engineer | Full-time (32h) | Remote | https://transloadit.com/blog/2022/01/job-support-engineer/ Hi, founder at Transloadit here. We just posted a vacancy for a Support Engineer today. To summarize: * excellent English * Node.js & command line experience * emphatic, patient, curious, helping others motivates you * 100% remote * $40/h * 32h/week, flexible but ±4h overlap with CE(S)T office time…
Comment linking /blog/2022/01/job-support-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2022)”Submitted Video encoding up to 86.47% faster with Transloadit's 'Turbo Mode' as a story · 3 points
HN discussionCheck out http://transloadit.com
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on “Amazon Elastic Transcoder”Submitted Official Go Support as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTransloadit is a service in file uploading & encoding. We're bootstrapped and hailing from Berlin. We're currently looking for a full stack developer https://transloadit.com/jobs/full-stack-developer/ . We're heavy on node, CoffeeScript, Go, bash. We were the first to run node.js in production and had to invent many wheels because of it. Much of that has been written in the public domain, so you'll be working (REMOT…
Comment linking /jobs/full-stack-developer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2014)”Submitted Automating image resizing and format conversion with ImageMagick as a story · 2 points
HN discussionLike you, we use pre-signed S3 upload urls. From there we use Transloadit [0] to crop and sanitize and convert and generate thumbnails. Transloadit is basically ImageMagick-as-a-Service. Running ImageMagick yourself on a huge variety of untrusted user input would be terrifying. [0] https://transloadit.com/
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on “Ask HN: How to handle user file uploads?”Submitted Transloadit Terraform Provider as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"hey I see you played a video... here's a CTA" ... there are some alert()'s lying around in your "cases"... guessing they were meant to be removed :) Is the USP here the video recording? If I was comparing to services like zencoder, transload.it, pandastream etc [1] http://zencoder.com/en/ [2] https://transloadit.com/ [3] http://www.pandastream.com/
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on “Show HN: Framebase.io, Video for Developers”Submitted Our New AI Bots as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> What differentiates our API from others is that you can chain together multiple “actions” as part of a single API request. https://transloadit.com offers similar composable workflows in a single request, and supports more file types besides PDFs. Disclosure, I am a founder :)
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on “Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents”Submitted Tech Preview of our new AI bots as a story · 2 points
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