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by lukechesser 9y ago
You're exactly right! Unsplash [1] was a side-project for our company freelance developer and designer platform, Crew [2] (Crew was later sold to Dribbble; Unsplash now operates independently). We knew as creators that finding beautifu
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Scaling Unsplash to 10M+ requests/day with a small team(medium.com)
1 points by lukechesser 10y ago|1 comments
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by lukechesser 10y ago
Bang on right. That's exactly how we're looking at it. One thing we also consider as well is the overhead of adding another person to our team. We're learning a lot as we go (we've never built anything like this), so we
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by lukechesser 10y ago
So the resizing alone makes Imgix very valuable to us. We're in an interesting situation though, where we have relatively few `master` images, but hundreds of renders per image, which are then seen millions of times each month. That&#x
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by lukechesser 10y ago
Hey Callmeed, Appreciate your thoughts. This is stuff we've absolutely thought hard about. Believe me when I say that I would love to cut the costs by switching providers for certain things, but the tradeoffs at our current size aren&#
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Unsplash: 365 photos, 10 MM downloads later(365.unsplash.com)
6 points by lukechesser 12y ago|1 comments
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by lukechesser 13y ago
Legally, I completely agree, they're allowed to. But by that same token, hundreds of PSDs are posted on Dribbble every day. As Allan, the designer for Designer News and Layervault, said when I asked him if he wanted me to take the reso
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by lukechesser 13y ago
Arguing on HN is probably a moot point, but I'll try anyways. Don't get me wrong, I'm aware they could have gone about this in a much more aggressive way. But to go through their lawyers right away was a much more aggressive
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MailChimp threatens legal action against an open source side project(imluke.me)
36 points by lukechesser 13y ago|39 comments
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Popular UIs — Free PSDs of popular web UIs(lukechesser.github.io)
3 points by lukechesser 13y ago|0 comments