SKSerhii Kalynainconvertifydevblog.hashnode.dev·Jul 1 · 7 min readI added AI background removal to my image converter in a week, in Rust, no PythonPart of an ongoing build-in-public series on Convertify, a free image/file converter I build solo. This week: background removal. The honest version, with the walls I hit. Most "remove image backgrou00
SKSerhii Kalynainconvertifydevblog.hashnode.dev·Jun 11 · 5 min readThe Rust binding compiled fine. then it started segfaulting in prodI run a free image converter, its built on rust + axum + libvips. it had been happily running for months. then one feature, images-to-pdf, started falling over in production with this: g_object_unref:00
SKSerhii Kalynainconvertifydevblog.hashnode.dev·May 29 · 5 min readBuilding Image Compression in Rust with libvips Real Benchmarks, Real TradeoffsI've been building Convertify a free image converter for 11 weeks now. Last week I added compression support (JPG, PNG, WebP) using Rust + libvips. Here's what I learned, with actual numbers. The Sta00
SKSerhii Kalynainconvertifydevblog.hashnode.dev·May 8 · 3 min readFrom 0 to 72 indexed pages in 2 months: what Google actually does with new sitesI've been building Convertify — a free image converter in Rust + Next.js — for about 2 months. Here's where I am in GSC right now: 72 indexed pages Average position: 40.8 Impressions: ~90/day Clicks:00
SKSerhii Kalynainconvertifydevblog.hashnode.dev·Apr 15 · 5 min readWhy HEIC still breaks web apps in 2026 — and how to fix it server-sideHere's the absurd situation in 2026: Apple has made HEIC the default photo format on every iPhone since iOS 11 (2017). ~60% of US mobile users are on iOS. And yet HEIC has 14.74% browser support — ent00
