Forem: Harshil shah

I built a free alternative to iLoveIMG — no login, no ads, no paywalls

Harshil shah — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:18:50 +0000

We've all been there.

You need to quickly compress an image. You Google "free image tool", land on iLoveIMG, upload your file — and boom.

"Sign up to continue."

You just wanted to resize a photo. Not create another account you'll forget about in 3 days.

So after hitting this wall one too many times during a side project, I did what any developer does.

I built my own. 🛠️

Introducing ihateimg.in

ihateimg.in — a completely free image toolkit. No account. No ads. No "upgrade to pro" popup appearing right when you need it most.

Just open the site and get things done.

What it does

Tool	What it's for
🖼️ Crop	Trim your image exactly how you want
📐 Resize	Custom dimensions in pixels or percentage
🗜️ Compress	Reduce file size without killing quality
💧 Watermark	Add text or image watermarks in seconds
🔍 Upscale	Increase resolution without heavy blur

The part I'm most proud of — Pipelines ⚡

Most tools make you do this:

Upload → Edit → Download → Re-upload → Edit again → Download → Repeat 😤

With ihateimg.in, you can chain multiple edits into a single pipeline.

Compress + Resize + Watermark — all in one go. Upload once, get your final result. Done.

This alone saves me several minutes every single time I work with images.

How it stacks up against iLoveIMG

Feature	iLoveIMG	ihateimg.in
Login required	✅ Yes	❌ Never
Ads	✅ Yes	❌ Never
Paid plan	$60/year	Free forever
Pipeline / batch edits	Limited	✅ Yes
Compress, Resize, Crop	✅	✅
Watermark	✅	✅
Upscale	✅	✅

iLoveIMG is a solid product — but it's built around converting free users into paying ones. Nothing wrong with that as a business, but it's not what I wanted as a user.

ihateimg.in is built around getting out of your way.

The honest backstory

I needed a quick image tool for a side project. Every popular option either had ads, required signup, or locked the exact feature I needed behind a paywall.

So I spent a weekend building something I actually wanted to use.

It's been live for a while now. I've been quietly adding features and fixing bugs. Today felt like the right time to finally share it with the dev community and get real feedback.

Try it out

👉 ihateimg.in

I'd genuinely love to know:

What's missing?
What would make this a tool you actually reach for?
Any bugs or rough edges you hit?

Drop a comment — I read every single one. 🙏

I got tired of uploading the same image 5 times… so I built ihateimg.in

Harshil shah — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:05:07 +0000

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!

Fed up with clunky image editors? I built ihateimg.in — free, fast, no signup needed

Harshil shah — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:00:13 +0000

I built a free image tool that lets you chain multiple edits in one go — no login, no BS

If you've ever had to compress an image, then crop it, then add a watermark... you know the pain. Open three different websites, re-upload every single time, lose quality with every step.

So I built ihateimg.in — a free, no-login image toolkit that handles it all.

What it can do

🗜️ Compress — shrink file sizes without killing quality

✂️ Crop — trim exactly what you need

📐 Resize — set custom dimensions instantly

💧 Watermark — protect your images with text or logo

🔄 Rotate & Flip — straighten or mirror in one click

🔧 ...and more tools being added

The best part? The Pipeline Feature 🚀

Instead of visiting 5 tools separately, you can:

Add multiple tools in sequence (e.g. Crop → Resize → Watermark)
Upload your image once
Hit execute — done.

One image. One upload. Everything applied at once.

Why you'll love it

✅ 100% Free

✅ No login required

✅ No watermarks forced on you

✅ Works right in your browser

Would love your feedback — especially if something is broken or a tool you wish existed. Drop a comment or try it out 👇

🔗 ihateimg.in

Code Collab

Harshil shah — Sun, 21 May 2023 04:39:47 +0000

CodeCollab is a web solution that allows multiple users to code together in real-time, and you can also run and save the code file, with a chat feature for easy communication and support for multiple languages and CodeGPT for solving any programming related queries.

Features

Realtime code editing
Code in multiple languages
Save your code
Run your code
CodeGPT
Chat with the users in the room
Tech Stack

Frontend : ReactJs, Socket IO, Bootstrap
Backend : NodeJs, Express
API : Open AI API
Hosting : Render

Link - https://code-collab.xyz

Code-Collab

Harshil shah — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 09:50:12 +0000

CodeCollab is a web solution that allows multiple users to code together in real-time, and you can also run and save the code file, with a chat feature for easy communication and support for multiple languages and CodeGPT for solving any programming related queries.

Flowchart

Features

Realtime code editing
Code in multiple languages
Save your code
Run your code
CodeGPT
Chat with the users in the room

Tech Stack

Frontend : ReactJs, Socket IO, Bootstrap
Backend : NodeJs, Express
API : Open AI API
Hosting : Render

Link
https://code-collab.xyz

Code-Collab

Harshil shah — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 04:37:30 +0000

Code-Collab is a realtime code sync website. Multiple users can connect to the room and can use the code editor. Users can code in various languages. There is a chat feature to help users communicate easily.

Tech Stack used:

React
NodeJs
Express
Socket IO
Bootstrap

Link to the website

UseRef Hook React

Harshil shah — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 07:17:09 +0000

import { useState, useEffect, useRef } from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom/client";

function App() {
  const [inputValue, setInputValue] = useState("");
  const previousInputValue = useRef("");

  useEffect(() => {
    previousInputValue.current = inputValue;
  }, [inputValue]);

  return (
    <>
      <input
        type="text"
        value={inputValue}
        onChange={(e) => setInputValue(e.target.value)}
      />
      <h2>Current Value: {inputValue}</h2>
      <h2>Previous Value: {previousInputValue.current}</h2>
    </>
  );
}

const root = ReactDOM.createRoot(document.getElementById('root'));
root.render(<App />);

V-Blogs

Harshil shah — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:12:05 +0000

V-Blogs is a website in which you can add, update, delete blogs. In this website you can listen to the blogs. You can also record the blog to publish it. It is created using react and any user can add their blogs.

You can view the website by clicking on below link:
V-blogs

UseState Hook React

Harshil shah — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 03:59:58 +0000

UseState Hook

The React useState Hook allows us to track state in a function component.

State generally refers to data or properties that need to be tracking in an application.

import React,{useState} from 'react';

function Example(){
const [count,setCount] = useState(0);
return(
    <div>
        <p>you have clicked {count} times</p>
        <button onClick={()=> setCount(count+1)}>
        Click Me
        </button>
    </div>

    );
}

Adding ads to your website

Harshil shah — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 07:05:06 +0000

https://cyclingg.web.app

You can add ads to your websites. You just need to login to adsterra and then you need to add the link of your website ,you then need to choose which ads to display on your website and also the size and type of the ads. They will the take a few minutes to check your website and then provide you with the code to write in your html file where you want to display the ad and then you have to again deploy your website with the new code and that's how you can add ads to your website.

Website

HTML Image Map

Harshil shah — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:08:57 +0000

With HTML image maps, you can create clickable areas on an image.

The HTML map tag defines an image map. An image map is an image with clickable areas. The areas are defined with one or more area tags.

<img src="workplace.jpg" alt="Workplace" usemap="#workmap">

<map name="workmap">
  <area shape="rect" coords="34,44,270,350" alt="Computer" href="computer.html">
  <area shape="rect" coords="290,172,333,250" alt="Phone" href="phone.html">
  <area shape="circle" coords="337,300,44" alt="Coffee" href="coffee.html">
</map>

To get the coordinates of the objects in the image you can visit the following websites:

You can also visit my website where image map is used

And you can find the above website's code at https://github.com/harshilshah99/greenPaddle/blob/main/public/accessories.html