Building an online image compressor

NOTE: You can find original post on my personal blog https://www.negrel.dev/blog/building-an-online-image-compressor/index.html

Recently, I stumbled upon

this Reddit post

where OP says he made $1000 from his image compressor. He built it in 2 hours.

After quickly analyzing the website, I figured it couldn't be too hard to make

my own.

Objectives were to build a fast image compressor with:

• no upload nor sign up


• no images limit


• no file size limit


• privacy-friendly in mind

After one week of work,

www.bulkcompress.photos …

build compressor development file frontend image images opensource reddit webdev website