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I built 62 image tools that never upload your photos. Here's what was harder than expected.

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I do a lot of SEO and web work, which means I touch images every single day. Compress this one for a page, remove the background from that one, convert a HEIC someone sent me, resize something for a blog post. And every day it was the same routine. One site for compressing, another for background removal, and another for converting. Half of them hit me with "upgrade to Pro" after one or two images.

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I built 62 image tools that never upload your photos. Here's what was harder than expected. · ShortSingh