Openinary
Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary
Details
- External ID
- 46366377
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Openinary
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Dec. 23, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2652671755725191
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN!I built Openinary because Cloudinary and Uploadcare lock your images and charge per request.Openinary lets you self-host a full image pipeline: transform, optimize, and cache images on your infra; S3, Cloudflare R2, or any S3-compatible storage.It’s the only self-hosted Cloudinary-like tool handling both transformations and delivery with a simple URL API (/t/w_800,h_800,f_avif/sample.jpg).Built with Node.js, Docker-ready.GitHub: https://github.com/openinary/openinaryFeedback welcome; especially from Cloudinary users wanting the same UX but on their own infra!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Data infrastructure
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- self-hosted image processing service
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is an on-demand image proxy using standard libraries (such as libvips/Sharp) running on a web server connected to S3-compatible object storage.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cloudinary
Concerns raised: High pricing ($2k/month for Cloudinary)
Feature requests: Text overlays support
Competitors
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Launched 34 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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