InstaPan

What inspired you to build Instapan? I love shooting panoramas, but every time I tried to share them on Instagram, they became almost unusable — either crushed into a thin strip or heavily cropped. The swipeable multi-image carousel is perfect for panoramas, but no tool made it easy to create clean, seamless slices. Instapan started simply because I wanted a fast, precise way to let people actually experience a wide photo instead of viewing a tiny compressed version of it. What problem were you trying to solve? The real pain wasn’t “how do I slice an image?” It was: maintaining perfect alignment between frames, ensuring every panel fits Instagram’s constraints, avoiding tedious manual work in Photoshop, and keeping the whole process beginner-friendly. Creators shouldn’t need math, templates or guesswork to share a panorama properly. Instapan solves that with clean slicing, instant previews, and exports that are pixel-perfect for IG carousels. How did your approach evolve while building it? The first prototype was just an image cutter. But after testing with photographers and creators, a few things became clear, and the product shifted quickly: Added real-time previews so you can swipe through the panorama exactly as viewers will. Refined the slicing engine to keep horizons and subjects aligned automatically. Streamlined the UI until the whole flow became: upload → adjust → export. Focused on quality so every output slice matches Instagram’s dimensions perfectly and stays crisp. In the end, Instapan became more than a utility — it’s a tiny tool that restores the natural, exploratory feel of panoramas inside a very constrained platform.