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I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept g

I thought Cloudflare was going to win the image hosting/serving/resizing game based on their original blog post, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I kept getting frustrated with the complexity and changing costs of solutions out there, so about a year ago I launched https://www.simplefileupload.com https://www.simplefileupload.com. It's a super easy, flat rate cost solution to quickly allow users to upload images and files. It provides a customizable upload widget and serves files via a CDN and firewall to protect against attacks. It doesn't have query param image resizing yet, but it's coming!

Aeolun 5y ago
This doesn’t really seem to solve any of the issues raised in the blog post though? The limit is 5MB, and the default cost per month would allow you to serve 3.5M images from CF.
Slartie 5y ago
Isn't it a bit too easy to exploit this? Like by maliciously uploading tons of data to the account of a site using this service in order to exceed their limit and hence break their file upload process.
- top_kekeroni_m8 5y ago
  There is no free plan.
swyx 5y ago
oh its leenyburger! loving that you are building it in public on your Software Social podcast. listening to you two over the past year has been really educational.
- mjwhansen 5y ago
  thanks for listening, swyx!
aarondf 5y ago
What Colleen has built is indeed quite simple to use. You just add the JS snippet, SFU handles all the storage and just returns a URL. And bonus points, it's directly uploaded to S3. From the documentation: "Simple File Upload uses direct uploads. In a direct upload, a file is uploaded to S3 from a user's browser, without first passing through your app."
adamqureshi 5y ago
THANK YOU!been looking for a upload img simple api to use for my new app im building.
dceddia 5y ago
Cool to see this here! I've been following your journey on the Software Social podcast [0] and it's awesome to watch the project progress. I also really enjoy that the podcast is not all sunshine and rainbows, like you actually talk about the ups and downs and it's great. We need more like it. [0] https://softwaresocial.dev/ https://softwaresocial.dev/
freedomben 5y ago
Ha! I started building the same thing. Luckily for you I never finished it ;-D (just to clarify tone above, it's a total joke because your implementation is a lot better than mine was tracking to be)
NicoJuicy 5y ago
In the same context, if you would use .net. I really like ImageResizer : https://github.com/imazen/resizer https://github.com/imazen/resizer
kmf 5y ago
Wow, this looks so awesome! Really simple UI too — gonna have to give this a try. I was just struggling with some client-side image upload stuff last week, and I love the idea of doing the full service integration from client to backend as a product. BTW - I’m part of the dev advocate team at Cloudflare, would you want to chat sometime about your experience with Images? Definitely would love to hear your perspective as a dev on what could be better!
anitil 5y ago
What a fantastic service! I really like how focused it is. Just file upload. Database? No. Confusing terms? No. File upload? yes.
ComodoHacker 5y ago
Just FYI, your front page is broken in Firefox with default uBlock Origin settings. Considering potential audience, you might want to fix that. The pricing page is fine.

Aeolun 5y ago

This doesn’t really seem to solve any of the issues raised in the blog post though? The limit is 5MB, and the default cost per month would allow you to serve 3.5M images from CF.

Slartie 5y ago

Isn't it a bit too easy to exploit this? Like by maliciously uploading tons of data to the account of a site using this service in order to exceed their limit and hence break their file upload process.

top_kekeroni_m8 5y ago
There is no free plan.

swyx 5y ago

oh its leenyburger! loving that you are building it in public on your Software Social podcast. listening to you two over the past year has been really educational.

mjwhansen 5y ago
thanks for listening, swyx!

aarondf 5y ago

What Colleen has built is indeed quite simple to use. You just add the JS snippet, SFU handles all the storage and just returns a URL. And bonus points, it's directly uploaded to S3. From the documentation: "Simple File Upload uses direct uploads. In a direct upload, a file is uploaded to S3 from a user's browser, without first passing through your app."

adamqureshi 5y ago

THANK YOU!been looking for a upload img simple api to use for my new app im building.

dceddia 5y ago

Cool to see this here! I've been following your journey on the Software Social podcast [0] and it's awesome to watch the project progress. I also really enjoy that the podcast is not all sunshine and rainbows, like you actually talk about the ups and downs and it's great. We need more like it. [0] https://softwaresocial.dev/ https://softwaresocial.dev/

freedomben 5y ago

Ha! I started building the same thing. Luckily for you I never finished it ;-D (just to clarify tone above, it's a total joke because your implementation is a lot better than mine was tracking to be)

NicoJuicy 5y ago

In the same context, if you would use .net. I really like ImageResizer : https://github.com/imazen/resizer https://github.com/imazen/resizer

kmf 5y ago

Wow, this looks so awesome! Really simple UI too — gonna have to give this a try. I was just struggling with some client-side image upload stuff last week, and I love the idea of doing the full service integration from client to backend as a product. BTW - I’m part of the dev advocate team at Cloudflare, would you want to chat sometime about your experience with Images? Definitely would love to hear your perspective as a dev on what could be better!

anitil 5y ago

What a fantastic service! I really like how focused it is. Just file upload. Database? No. Confusing terms? No. File upload? yes.

ComodoHacker 5y ago

Just FYI, your front page is broken in Firefox with default uBlock Origin settings. Considering potential audience, you might want to fix that. The pricing page is fine.