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		ushi on June 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: TinyPNG: Lossy compression for PNG that preserves ... It would be great to have this in the rails asset pipeline. Do you plan to open source your compression code?

molf on June 27, 2012 | [–]

We plan to release an API. The compression code is a combination of a couple of open source tools with some careful tuning and heuristics for optimal result.

jdub on June 27, 2012 | [–]

It's built on existing Open Source tools. Look for OptiPNG, PNGcrush, etc. There are plenty, this is just a pretty web front end.

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