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
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Ultimate Guide to FFmpeg3 people · 110 points · first shared 2022 · 8 comments on HN
- 220x Faster Background Removal in the Browser Using ONNX Runtime with WebGPU2 people · 165 points · first shared 2024 · 31 comments on HN
- 3Show HN: A Video Editor SDK for Web Based on WASM and WebCodecs2 people · 10 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 4Designing a Timeline for Mobile Video Editing1 people · 80 points · first shared 2024 · 14 comments on HN
- 5IE team sends a cupcake for FireFox 51 people · 67 points · first shared 2011 · 25 comments on HN
- 6Show HN: An AI-first visual editor using GPT-4o's GPT-image-1 model1 people · 23 points · first shared 2025 · 8 comments on HN
- 7BankSimple is getting real1 people · 19 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 8Using LLMs for Generative Design Editing1 people · 11 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 9How I Built a Short Video Generator with AI and CE.SDK in One Day1 people · 7 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 10Really hard fifth grade math problem1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 11Vibe-Engineering: When AI Does All the Coding, What Do We Do?1 people · 4 points · first shared 2025 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Show HN: SDK for Building AI-Powered Creative Tools1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 13Show HN: A fully cross-platform design editor SDK1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Show HN: A GenAI image benchmark for production design work1 people · 1 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15Homepage1 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
asicsp · 2025-01-15
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!
billconan · 2023-02-22
but there is webcodecs now. https://img.ly/showcases/cesdk/web/video-ui/standalone/index.html
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.