Openinary
Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary
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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!
HN · launched Dec 23, 2025 · 6 upvotes (top 73%) · 1 view
Niche: image processing and editing tools · 260 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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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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Attention rank: #129 of 141 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 34 days after the earliest competitor.
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