ConvertQuest Beta Launch - Free Image Tools Begin

This experiment started while I was making a favicon for FortuneToday. On January 3 I launched ConvertQuest in beta, a set of free online image tools plus a file conversion API.

Table 1

Making that favicon, it hit me: opening Photoshop every time for a simple image task is a pain. Favicon generation, resizing, compression... it'd be nice to just do all that right in the browser.

I looked around and there are similar tools, but most of them make you upload your images to a server, which feels a bit sketchy. So I set the goal of processing everything inside the browser.

Here's what works right now.

• Favicon generator: drop in one image and get every size
• Image resize and compression
• Base64 encoder
• AI background removal (getting the ONNX runtime up for this one was a bit of a struggle)
• PPTX to image conversion API

Most of it runs on the Canvas API, but background removal has to run an ONNX model, so it takes a while to load. That needs improving.

The plan is to keep the basic tools free and charge usage-based pricing on the API side. But honestly, the developer tools market is a red ocean, so getting traffic is the real challenge.

Park Labs' 10th experiment. Somehow we're already in double digits.