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Uploadcare
Company blog · uploadcare.com/blogwebprogramming
Uploadcare is the company blog at uploadcare.com, writing about web and programming. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 32 times, most often “File uploading, processing and delivery for web apps”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (16) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Uploadcare is a file upload, image processing and storage service. HN readers mention it as an alternative to other file-handling services, and most comments are job posts or product mentions rather than comments on the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 16 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Uploadcare handles file uploading, processing, and delivery for web and mobile apps: a drop-in uploader, image CDN, video delivery, and a URL API.
Most-linked posts?
- File uploading, processing and delivery for web apps6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2013-03-23
- Uploadcare handles uploading, storing and processing files for you4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2012-11-15
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-05
What Hacker News says?
Uploadcare | https://uploadcare.com | REMOTE | Clientside engineer, full-stack engineer | igor@uploadcare.com Uploadcare is a File system as a service for web and mobile applications. We handle every step of the file lifecycle, so developers and entrepreneurs could concentrate on what really matter. We have thousands of customers from all the globe, including Universal Music, Indeed, Georgia State University and man…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Submitted Fighting JPEG color banding as a story · 136 points
HN discussionUploadcare.com is looking for a tech/dev UX Writer. (Remote) You will be the first UX Writer in our team and will closely work with design, product, and engineering, to create the words that guide Uploadcare’s product experiences. What you’ll do: - Craft company’s tone of voice. - Map out how our products work together, refine concepts and definitions in our system. - Communicate complex product features and benefit…
Comment linking /community/t/ux-writer-with-web-development-experience/1802
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2021)”Submitted Uploadcare handles uploading, storing and processing files for you as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHas anyone switched to/from Uploadcare? ( https://uploadcare.com/ ) - would love to hear how they compare.
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on “Uppy 1.0: Your best friend in file uploading”Submitted TCP and UDP, or the two pillars of the Internet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionHIRING Uploadcare | DevRel / Dev Advocate / Technical community builder | Fully Remote | Full-time Uploadcare’s looking for a Technical community builder to join on our Product + Dev marketing team! Love working with devs + building community? Learn more and apply: https://uploadcare.com/community/t/technical-community-manag...
Comment linking /community/t/technical-community-manager-engineering-background/1762
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2021)”Submitted Image crop in CSS. The workaround techniques with code examples as a story · 5 points
HN discussionhttp://uploadcare.com File system as a service. It's all in one file uploading, processing, storage and delivery for web and mobile apps.
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted Show HN: Uploadcare File Uploader – Scalable and Secure JavaScript Widget as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI run similar program in Russia for the last 6 months, called "The Accelerator" http://zonaspace.ru/accelerator/ Yes, it definitely works for our members. Membership is public though. The most useful part is solving startup problems case by case. Also, the whole thing is built around a few key coordinators and their "office hours". We have 30+ projects. Some are Russia-focused, others are international. Two most int…
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on “NCombinator”Submitted How I made Blurhash 128x faster as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUploadcare supports shrinking images before uploading, https://uploadcare.com/documentation/widget/#image-shrink (I'm one of co-founders)
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on “Pillow-SIMD – Fast, production-ready image resize for x86”Submitted What Is NaN in JavaScript? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAgree on this. In the beginning, we wanted to use CloudFlare for https://uploadcare.com (we're not a direct competitor, but provide image transformations as a part of our services). But it's against their policies, they confirmed it. The only option is to use a proper CDN. A disclosure: I'm the co-founder of Uploadcare.
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on “Show HN: Simple image resizing/optimization service”Submitted File uploading, processing and delivery for web apps as a story · 2 points
HN discussionUploadCare http://uploadcare.com is another startup in this area.
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on “Chute (YC W12) Launches A Twilio For Photos”Submitted How we made Blurhash 128x faster as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://uploadcare.com/ is great for image processing and allows you to specify your own storage option as well, including S3. Give them a look!
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on “Ask HN: What API do you wish you had while building your product?”Submitted Vitest: Fast Unit Test Framework as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe easiest and safest way to avoid the rather strange restrictions described is to not make use of inline script in a way that makes those restrictions neccessary, though. And a "recommendation" should reflect that (from back when HTML recommendations were actually published rather than random Google shills writing whatever on github). The suggested workaround is also not without criticism (eg [1]). [1]: https://up…
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on “How to safely escape JSON inside HTML SCRIPT elements”Submitted A useful function that does nothing as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYou should try https://uploadcare.com/
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on “Filepicker.io + Zencoder”Submitted JavaScript Import Maps 101 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI was recently looking for services that could handle resizing and cropping. Personally I prefer the ones that act like a proxy, so I can store the images in my own S3 bucket. Here are the services I found: http://www.imgix.com/ http://cloudinary.com/ http://www.cdnconnect.com/ http://cloudresize.com/ http://cloudimage.io/ http://www.blitline.com/ https://transloadit.com/ https://uploadcare.com/ http://www.resrc.it/
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on “Pilbox: an image resizing application server”Submitted We asked ChatGPT how to use our service. Here is what AI answered as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere are some services out there like https://uploadcare.com/ and https://www.filestack.com/ but they offer lots of stuff and are not cheap. My idea is to have an APIaaS and offer simpler ways to integrate with one or multiple providers. Files could be saved to the customers' accounts. Features could include transformations, compression, conversion, spend management and insights, etc. Not sure if that sounds appeal…
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on “Ideas to make money as solo dev”Submitted Basics of the Internet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBefore making the switch you might consider https://uploadcare.com Benefits of UploadCare: - Free Tier includes cropping and S3 storage - Better UI - Better API (cropping doesn't require a query string which breaks cacheing on some proxies) Disclaimer: I haven't used UploadCare nor am I affiliated with them
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on “Tell HN: In 1 week Filepicker forces paid signup or lose S3 & image conversion”Submitted ECMAScript modules. Going beyond the ordinary as a story · 1 points
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