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Erlendon Ask HN: What problem does Foursquare/Gowalla/Places solve?

Maybe you should simplify your message. I had problems grasping why this might be useful to me.

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Thanks for that, I'll let you know if I get stuck.

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Thanks for that, but Im looking for a "pay as you go" service.

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Thanks, looks useful, but didnt find any Terms of service or pricing info..

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Thanks, will take a closer look, but pricing seems off (1 cent/mb/month over 50mb)

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Thanks, but looks like its mainly for background jobs and not built to serve images on the fly.

Erlendon Ask HN: image scaling on the fly

Sorry, I wasn't clear enough earlier.

I have used imagemagick/GD previusly, but there are some hassle involved in setting up this for each project/client (cron job for cleaning up thumbs, space considerations, not all ISP I use for clients have GD installed etc)

I agree that writing an ad-hoc image scaler is simle.

However, writing a quality general one that handles different formats, image quality, aspect ratio, smart cropping etc..is not trivial.