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Show HN: Optimage 2 – compress images thoroughly

11 points by vladdanilov 9y ago

brudgers 9y ago
It might be worthwhile to raise the price significantly. The apparent discount from $15 to $9 makes the service look less valuable and the company less successful. A class of desirable customers are those willing pay hundreds of dollars a month or more. For serious work, the cost of integrating with a service is high and the long term financial stability of the service is important. Low prices correlate with higher risk that the service will disappear. Good luck.
- _jn 9y ago
  OP might also want to consider releasing a CLI / other form of library at a higher price.
  - guessmyname 9y ago
    Optimage already offers CLI, see here: /Applications/Optimage.app/Contents/MacOS/ ├── Optimage └── cli ├── gifsicle ├── gs ├── icnsutil ├── icotool ├── node ├── optimage └── svgo $ /Applications/Optimage.app/Contents/MacOS/cli/optimage --help Optimage, image optimization command line tool. Supported formats: PNG, JPEG. Usage: optimage [options] file ... Options: -h, --help display this usage information -V, --version display the version number -v, --verbose run in verbose mode --lossy perform lossy optimizations --srgb convert to sRGB --strip-icc strip ICC profile --strip-meta [meta] strip metadata, e.g. EXIF, XMP, tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, comments, etc -d, --dest [path] save output files to directory --prefix [prefix] add prefix to output filenames, may also contain directory path --suffix [suffix] add suffix to output filenames, default is -opt -f, --force overwrite existing output files
    - _jn 9y ago
      Turning that into a premium feature is a pretty good opportunity for profit imo.
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guessmyname 9y ago
There is also a free and open-source app called ImageOptim [1]. I believe ImageOptim is older than Optimage but they seem to work the same way. They also offer a paid web API service with a similar price [2]. Posting just as an alternative, the more the better. [1] https://imageoptim.com/mac https://imageoptim.com/mac [2] https://imageoptim.com/api/pricing https://imageoptim.com/api/pricing

11 points by vladdanilov 9y ago

It might be worthwhile to raise the price significantly. The apparent discount from $15 to $9 makes the service look less valuable and the company less successful. A class of desirable customers are those willing pay hundreds of dollars a month or more. For serious work, the cost of integrating with a service is high and the long term financial stability of the service is important. Low prices correlate with higher risk that the service will disappear. Good luck.

_jn 9y ago
OP might also want to consider releasing a CLI / other form of library at a higher price.
- guessmyname 9y ago
  Optimage already offers CLI, see here: /Applications/Optimage.app/Contents/MacOS/ ├── Optimage └── cli ├── gifsicle ├── gs ├── icnsutil ├── icotool ├── node ├── optimage └── svgo $ /Applications/Optimage.app/Contents/MacOS/cli/optimage --help Optimage, image optimization command line tool. Supported formats: PNG, JPEG. Usage: optimage [options] file ... Options: -h, --help display this usage information -V, --version display the version number -v, --verbose run in verbose mode --lossy perform lossy optimizations --srgb convert to sRGB --strip-icc strip ICC profile --strip-meta [meta] strip metadata, e.g. EXIF, XMP, tEXt, iTXt, zTXt, comments, etc -d, --dest [path] save output files to directory --prefix [prefix] add prefix to output filenames, may also contain directory path --suffix [suffix] add suffix to output filenames, default is -opt -f, --force overwrite existing output files
  - _jn 9y ago
    Turning that into a premium feature is a pretty good opportunity for profit imo.

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guessmyname 9y ago

There is also a free and open-source app called ImageOptim [1]. I believe ImageOptim is older than Optimage but they seem to work the same way. They also offer a paid web API service with a similar price [2]. Posting just as an alternative, the more the better. [1] https://imageoptim.com/mac https://imageoptim.com/mac [2] https://imageoptim.com/api/pricing https://imageoptim.com/api/pricing