I built a free image upscaler on Cloudflare Workers — here's what bit me

Description and use

<p>I kept running into the same annoyance: screenshots that arrive looking like LEGO, photos that get crushed by messaging apps, and every "fix" behind a signup wall or a subscription. So I built <a href="https://unpixelate.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">unpixelate.net</a> — upload a pixelated or blurry image, get a sharper one back in seconds. No account, no credit card.</p> <p>This post isn't a product tour. It's the stuff that actually cost me debugging time: an AI inference API with three hidden traps, a math bug that would have made my own marketing a lie, and a storage quirk where a lega

Problem

<p>I kept running into the same annoyance: screenshots that arrive looking like LEGO, photos that get crushed by messaging apps, and every "fix" behind a signup wall or a subscription. So I built <a href="https://unpixelate.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">unpixelate.net</a> — upload a pixelated or blurry image, get a sharper one back in seconds. No account, no credit card.</p> <p>This post isn't a product tour. It's the stuff that actually cost me debugging time: an AI inference API with three hidden traps, a math bug that would have made my own marketing a lie, and a storage quirk where a lega

Outcome

<p>I kept running into the same annoyance: screenshots that arrive looking like LEGO, photos that get crushed by messaging apps, and every "fix" behind a signup wall or a subscription. So I built <a href="https://unpixelate.net" rel="noopener noreferrer">unpixelate.net</a> — upload a pixelated or blurry image, get a sharper one back in seconds. No account, no credit card.</p> <p>This post isn't a product tour. It's the stuff that actually cost me debugging time: an AI inference API with three hidden traps, a math bug that would have made my own marketing a lie, and a storage quirk where a lega

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I built a free image upscaler on Cloudflare Workers — here's what bit me

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