I run AI background removal in the browser–no upload,no server
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RMBG-1.4 + SAM running client-side via ONNX Runtime WASM. ~2s on laptop, works on mobile. Your image never leaves the browser.Built this as part of allplix.com. 19yo student in France, solo project.Happy to talk about the WASM pipeline or the pain of running ML models in a browser tab.
HN · launched Apr 10, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 0 views
Niche: image and video background removers · 96 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▲ +14% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It bundles pre-trained models (RMBG and SAM) using the off-the-shelf ONNX Runtime Web WebAssembly/WebGPU library to run background removal locally in the browser.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #43 of 105 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 160 days after the earliest competitor.
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