Pixaven

Pixaven

Modern GPU-powered image processing API

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Transform, adjust, enhance, stylize, filter, apply watermarks, and store your images with blazing speed. Pixaven guarantees ultra-fast image operations and unparalleled quality of your visual content thanks to a modern, GPU-powered image processing engine.
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Tod Sacerdoti
Pipedream
I am a big fan of @matylla and he is a definitive expert on image processing and managing an at scale image infrastructure business. His products also have the added bonus of being easy to use and beautifully designed. Congrats on the launch!
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@tod_sacerdoti Thank you for the kinds words. It really means a lot!
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
Thank you @chrismessina for the hunt! 🎉 This is @matylla, founder and CEO of Pixaven. After almost two years of hard work, we are excited to launch Pixaven on Product Hunt! We’d love to get some feedback and I’m here to answer any questions. Pixaven is a modern GPU-powered image processing API that enables developers to transform, filter and enhance visual content at blazing speed. All heavy processing takes place on our specialized infrastructure, built entirely from the ground up. Because we think it’s time to say goodbye to legacy solutions (like self-hosted ImageMagick), we wrote our image processing engine from scratch and deployed it to Apple Mac Pros that we host ourselves in a Tier-3 data center in Frankfurt, Germany. Our API currently offers: - Resizing and scaling (with multiple modes) - Cropping (with multiple modes) - Face detection - Watermarking - Masking - Filtering (such as blurring, color isolation and duotone effect) - Manual adjustments (such as brightness, contrast and exposure) - Automatic enhancements - External storage to AWS, GCP, Azure, IBM, DO and Rackspace cloud On top of all that, we offer an optional ‘Storage and Delivery’ addon and distribute visual content over a global 65+ Tbps content delivery network. Developers integrating Pixaven API into their apps and websites can process any of the 13 different file formats that we support, stack together as many operations as they like and instruct the API to store the resulting images in their preferred cloud object storage service. Pixaven API is also an excellent solution for apps deployed on serverless platforms (such as AWS Lambda) as it allows for great savings by offloading heavy image processing to Pixaven. Because any serverless offering is billed per time spent on code execution, speeding up image processing, which might take a couple of seconds per image with legacy solutions like ImageMagick, really is a no-brainer. We have tried to create the most complete solution for all image processing tasks and would love to hear your feedback on how we can make it better.
says Dermot Mulrone
Great work and congrats on the launch! I am curious why you decided to use Mac Pros?
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@herakatun Thanks for your kind words! Mac Pros give us access to two graphic cards per machine and we host a vast array of those in the datacenter in Frankfurt. We rely on Apple's Metal framework (among the others) for high-performance image processing hence we invested in our own infrastructure that can run our software.
Dmitrii
Interesting project! But to my mind performance benefits from GPU acceleration are not so visible in image processing (and besides servers with GPU are more expensive than CPU only). Have you made comparison between GPU and CPU implementation in terms of performance?
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@dimansny1 Happy to answer your question! The whole point of having a GPU-powered API is speed. Our GPU-based implementation completely outranks any other solutions which are CPU-bound. For our customers that means blazingly-fast processing speeds and for us ability to respond to any feature requests because we are in absolute control over pixels passing through Pixaven.
Dmitrii
@matylla Coll! According to API reference you support uploading only one file at a time (probably, I'm wrong). I would add batch uploading and processing. I think it'll improve performance.
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@dimansny1 That's a valid point. Multi uploading and batch processing are both very high on our to-do list and we'll implement those features very soon.
Rebecca J. Danek
Landing page looks very pleasing. Did you use any stock illustrations with this? Also, do you offer any free tier to try this out? To me personally $49 seems a bit steep just to test the service.
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@danekrebecca Happy to answer. The illustrations you see on our landing page are created by one of our designers we work with. We took some extra time with them and are very happy with the outcome. When it comes to free tier - sure we have one! Every signup starts with a free account (no cc required) and comes with a recurring quota of 1000 API calls per month. Simply reach out to us if you need more testing quota during your integration phase!
Tom Langridge
Fast.io
Great product and impressive feature set! I wanted to second another comment that I was hoping to see more examples of the transformations or image manipulation options you offer. Either way, great job and good luck with the launch!
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@tom_langridge You are also absolutely right about the examples of possibilities with Pixaven, need to re-design landing page a bit in that context.
lopezrosalee
Hi @matylla. What would be the ideal customer of yours and what are the use-cases for Pixaven?
Przemek Matylla
intern.work
Maker
@lopezrosalee Happy to answer! Pixaven is tailored to businesses producing visual content at scale and looking for a solid and fast platform that would handle the job. E-commerce would be the most obvious target market.
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