Image Up

I've integrated Uppy into my project Jopro for image uploads. It's been great so far! The only thing I dislike is that a lot of the benefits come from using it with Transloadit (which makes sense since they developed it) which is a SaaS. For now there's no issue with having to pay too much but I imagine as users come it may be an issue. For now it works great and you do get a lot of things that are easy to use. For example I have uploads working from ~10 different social platforms and also an in app editor for cropping, rotating, etc. that really wasn't an issue to add. Integration with S3 was quite easy as well, though I need to modify the permission structure soon.

After doing some research there are quite a lot of players in the file upload widget space.

https://www.filestack.com/
as well as all of these https://www.producthunt.com/products/filestack/alternatives

https://www.uploader.win/
https://uppy.io/
Kind of https://www.producthunt.com/products/shubox

Uppy.io seems to be open source and easy to use in your project as a library.

I've seen some people on twitter a while ago talking about how annoying image uploads are. I also have run into this recently with my other project voyalist, where I want to enable image uploads but there's a lot of things to consider. I'd love a service that can do the following

• Give me a simple react component for image uploads (single or multiple)
• Manage conversions to webp or other optimized formats
• Give me a CDN optimized image file location output with options for resizing via the URL
• Validate the image file sizes, dimensions, format, etc.
• Do resizing if necessary or even offer the option to do lossy conversion of JPGs (this would be killer because no sites offer this and if my image is over I have to go and redo this myself offline)
• Optionally validate the content of the image is not violating site guidelines
• Manage ownership (e.g. I associate my own user ids as metadata)
• Multicloud implementation for high availability
• Upload from mobile via QR code

This will be my january "new project"