I run AI background removal in the browser–no upload,no server
Details
- External ID
- 47721594
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I run AI background removal in the browser–no upload,no server
- Website domain
- allplix.com
- Launched
- April 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38817480719794345
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- image editing and background removal tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- background removal in browser
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 160 days after the earliest competitor.
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- 73hi — AI Images in Your Browser · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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- Apple's SHARP running in the browser via ONNX runtime web · hn · 2026-05-03 · 185 upvotes · similarity 0.42
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