IMG.LY Blog

img.ly · Company blog · on HN since 2010

IMG.LY is a software company building photo and video editor SDKs, and its blog covers FFmpeg, in-browser AI, and editor design.

What HN saysHN links it for technical guides like its FFmpeg guide, and commenters mention it as a competitor in web image editing SDKs and as a hiring company.
20HN people shared it
12linked it in comments
15stories submitted
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3 months agolast shared
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    The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg
    3 people · 110 points · first shared 2022 · 8 comments on HN
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    Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing
    1 people · 80 points · first shared 2024 · 14 comments on HN
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    IE team sends a cupcake for FireFox 5
    1 people · 67 points · first shared 2011 · 25 comments on HN
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    BankSimple is getting real
    1 people · 19 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
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    Using LLMs for Generative Design Editing
    1 people · 11 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
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    Really hard fifth grade math problem
    1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
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    Show HN: SDK for Building AI-Powered Creative Tools
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
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    Show HN: A fully cross-platform design editor SDK
    1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
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    Homepage
    1 people · first shared 2020

What HN people wrote when they linked it

maerch · 2022-04-01
IMG.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. Our tech stack: TypeScript, React, WebAssembly Go to https://imgly.jobs.personio.com/job/632407 for further information or contact me directly marcin dot skirzynski at img dot ly
proles · 2010-08-31
http://img.ly/zY3 this is my home setup. unfortunately the big screen is best used only for reference, otherwise it strains my neck.
sascha_ · 2020-12-01
IMG.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 now looking for several developers to help us revolutionize image editing. Before I tell you too much about us, I'd like to let our team speak for us: ...that is what we strive for. https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/building-the-creative-engine-of-the-wo… Rise above the noise https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/rise-above-the-noise-9788494f3c0b/ On the Democratization of Design http://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/on-the-democratization-of-design-ce731e… ...that's what we're passionate about. Deep Learning for Photo Editing https://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/deep-learning-for-photo-editing-943bdf… Work where you work best http://blog.photoeditorsdk.com/work-where-you-work-best/ ... we're currently looking to hire for multiple positions: - Senior Android Developer (https://imgly.kenjo.io/senior-android-engineer-remote-201106) - Senior Web Frontend Developer - Senior Fullstack Developer We are looking forward to hearing from you. If you're interested, just drop us a line via [email protected].
popalchemist · 2025-08-24
This 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 single line)
axelMI · 2025-04-28
there 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
hauschildt · 2024-08-27
Hi, 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-background-removal-using-onnx-runtime-webg… Source is available at: https://github.com/imgly/background-removal-js and on npm: @imgly/background-removal Feel free to check it out!
cdash · 2012-05-11
Since 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
moeffju · 2011-04-01
Check 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! :)
gmac · 2011-01-10
I 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
briansmith · 2010-01-14
See 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/YFROGuploadAndPost, 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.

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