I made a website to keep your images alive

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I created a website: . The purpose of the site is to keep your images alive and on the interwebs forever.

Oh great, another image host

Not exactly. Picinfinity doesn't actually host any of the images you upload. Instead it ensures that your images are always hosted on any one of a number of image hosts around the internets. If a host goes down (which happens all the time) your image will be safe. Once you upload an image you will get a "Direct Link" which, when accessed, will redirect to a working link on an actual image host. This way, my site does all the work to ensure that your image stays alive, and all you have to do is use the direct link.

Here's an example using the direct link: http://picinfinity.co/d/3967fb7c-1de9-428d-a708-56d1a84e5da8.jpg

You'll notice the site isn't pretty, but who cares? There's no styling for the direct image links, which is the main purpose of image hosts in the first place.

Why no styling? Because I'm not a web developer. I had a nifty idea so I threw this site together. If you'd like to edit the css and give me a better version I would be more than happy to implement it in the site (while we're on the subject, if you wrote up a stylesheet that scales nicely for mobile devices that would be sweet).

Edit 1: For those that care (putting this here because I'm not old enough to make my own subverse) following direct links should be much faster as the host links get tested asynchronously now.

Edit 2: Some plans for the future (because why not?)

Album uploads (i.e. multi-file/url uploads)
Webm uploads (there are plenty of webm hosts out there, why not support webm too?)

Edit 3: (weeeee!). Going to be adding a "webshot" option to the site very soon (because it's so stinkin' easy to implement). Pass in a webpage url and the site will attempt to render and screenshot the whole page, then upload it as usual and keep it alive. Half decent way to archive webpages without the worry of them disappearing.

Edit 4: Webshot added. Check it out: http://picinfinity.co/webshot

Edit 5: Album uploads are now a thing (along with imgur album/gallery conversion)

Edit 6: Also, webshots now act as an archiving tool. If you submit a link that has already been screenshot, it will prompt you to pick one of the previous dates, or take a new webshot.

TL;DR: Picinfinity uploads your image to any one of a number of free image hosts and ensures that the image never dies (by keeping redundant backups on other image hosts). You get a dedicated link which will redirected you directly to a working image host every time.

I created a website: [picinfinity.co](http://picinfinity.co). The purpose of the site is to keep your images alive and on the interwebs forever. > Oh great, *another* image host Not exactly. Picinfinity doesn't actually host any of the images you upload. Instead it ensures that your images are always hosted on any one of a number of image hosts around the internets. If a host goes down (which happens all the time) your image will be safe. Once you upload an image you will get a "Direct Link" which, when accessed, will redirect to a working link on an actual image host. This way, my site does all the work to ensure that your image stays alive, and all you have to do is use the direct link. Here's an example using the direct link: http://picinfinity.co/d/3967fb7c-1de9-428d-a708-56d1a84e5da8.jpg You'll notice the site isn't pretty, but who cares? There's no styling for the direct image links, which is the main purpose of image hosts in the first place. Why no styling? Because I'm not a web developer. I had a nifty idea so I threw this site together. If you'd like to edit the css and give me a better version I would be more than happy to implement it in the site (while we're on the subject, if you wrote up a stylesheet that scales nicely for mobile devices that would be sweet). **Edit 1:** For those that care (putting this here because I'm not old enough to make my own subverse) following direct links should be much faster as the host links get tested asynchronously now. **Edit 2:** Some plans for the future (because why not?) * Album uploads (i.e. multi-file/url uploads) * Webm uploads (there are plenty of webm hosts out there, why not support webm too?) **Edit 3:** *(weeeee!)*. Going to be adding a "webshot" option to the site very soon (because it's so stinkin' easy to implement). Pass in a webpage url and the site will attempt to render and screenshot the whole page, then upload it as usual and keep it alive. Half decent way to archive webpages without the worry of them disappearing. **Edit 4:** Webshot added. Check it out: http://picinfinity.co/webshot **Edit 5:** Album uploads are now a thing (along with imgur album/gallery conversion) **Edit 6:** Also, webshots now act as an archiving tool. If you submit a link that has already been screenshot, it will prompt you to pick one of the previous dates, or take a new webshot. ---------- TL;DR: Picinfinity uploads your image to any one of a number of free image hosts and ensures that the image never dies (by keeping redundant backups on other image hosts). You get a dedicated link which will redirected you directly to a working image host every time.

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