If you've ever used online image tools, you probably know this painful workflow:
Upload image → Compress → Download
Upload again → Resize → Download
Upload again → Crop → Download
Repeat until you either finish your task…
or lose your sanity.
At some point, I realized I wasn’t editing images anymore —
I was just stuck in an upload-download loop simulator 😅
🚧 The problem
Most online tools are built as single-purpose utilities.
Which sounds fine… until you actually try to do something simple like:
"Crop + resize + compress an image"
Suddenly you're:
- Uploading the same file multiple times
- Waiting again and again
- Losing time on something that should take seconds
It just felt… outdated.
💡 The idea
I thought:
Why can’t image editing work like a pipeline?
Upload once.
Apply multiple operations.
Download once.
That’s it.
🚀 What I built
So I built 👉 ihateimg.in
A simple browser-based tool where you can chain operations like:
- Crop
- Resize
- Compress
- Convert formats
- Add watermark
- Rotate / flip
All in one go.
⚙️ How it works
Instead of jumping between pages, you:
- Upload your image once
- Add multiple actions (like a stack)
- Execute everything together
No re-uploading. No repeated downloads.
✨ Design choices
A few things I intentionally focused on:
- No login required
- No forced watermark
- Fast and minimal UI
- Works directly in browser
I didn’t want another bloated tool — just something that gets the job done quickly.
😤 Why the name?
Honestly…
After the 10th time re-uploading the same image,
“I hate image tools” felt very accurate 😄
🔍 What I’m exploring next
- Batch processing
- Better compression algorithms
- Saving pipelines
- API access for developers
🙌 Looking for feedback
If you’ve faced similar issues (or think I’m overreacting 😅),
I’d love to know:
- Does the pipeline idea make sense?
- What features would you want next?
- Anything that feels confusing or missing?
If this saves you even a few minutes,
then it already did its job 🙂
Thanks for reading!
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