batchshots.com• Jun 16, 2025• 1 min read
Show HN: BatchShots – In-browser batch editor for image and SEO optimizationMy aunt runs a small side business selling handmade figures, which means she takes a lot of photos. I became her photo editor, and the job was always the same: fix dark images, remove background clutter, find the best shot from a group of duplicates, and get them ready for her online store.The manual work was slow. It wasn't just photo editing, it was also getting the images ready for the web. I had to resize and compress them, then create SEO-friendly filenames (slugs) and product descriptions to help her store show up in search results.I started with Photoshop and Lightroom, but the process was slow. I tried open-source tools like GIMP and wrote my own scripts with ImageMagick, but it was still not fast or easy enough. I needed one tool for everything: batch processing, AI-powered improvements, image optimization (compression + resizing), and generating SEO content. So, I built BatchShots.Here's a quick look at how it was built:- I began with the backend, experimenting with various o