Is this problem valuable for you?

Hey Indiehackers

I'm considering building a simple low code tool that fixes the problem of generating placeholders when images are loading and I was wondering if this problem it solves is something you deal with also.

Basically this problem is well known that on devices with slower internet connections, images on your app load slower, this causes problems like layout shifting and generally just isn't nice. One solution is to generate small conversions of the image (like small thumbnails) that load fast, but this is imo kinda annonying to implement and maintain (now you have alot of extra images to keep track of). Another solution is having sekeleton loaders, but again these are hard to get right and look kinda boring.

So my solution to the problem is just a simple script you include in your frontend that uses the BlurHash algorithm developed by Wolt to make nice image placeholders. This feature is part of some frameworks, like next js but I still think is this valuable for a lot of people not using frameworks like this. The goal is offering a "one click solution" that just works and is fast (I'm considering using stuff like cloudflare workers and kv to generate placeholders at the edge)

What do you guys think? Would you be willing to pay for example, 5$ a month for 500 unique placeholders a month?

I'm still very early on this idea, got it while at work immediately got hyped, but I really need some insight so any feedback/comments are much appreciated.