SwiftShrink
compress an image to an exact KB size, in the browser
Details
- External ID
- 48760161
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SwiftShrink
- Website domain
- swiftshrink.com
- Launched
- July 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2873357228195938
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- niche creative and graphics software
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- image compression tool for browsers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a purely client-side web utility using the standard HTML Canvas API to iteratively re-encode images via binary search until hitting a target byte size.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 210 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #171 of 211 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 243 days after the earliest competitor.
- Image In Kb · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- ToolKB · ph · 2026-09-20 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- R8 ByteFit · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- Compress to 100KB · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- ImageTool · ph · 2026-09-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- CompressGIF · ph · 2026-09-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- CompressMyPhotos · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ImgFeel · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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- No other launches for this product.
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