I added AI background removal to my image converter in a week, in Rust, no Python
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Part 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 background" tutorials end with pip install rembg and a happy screenshot. Mine started with a constraint: my whole backend is Rust, and I did not want to bolt a Python process onto it just to run one model. Here is how the week went. The good parts, and the three or four times I stared at a compiler error…
1Key Takeaways
- Part of an ongoing build-in-public series on Convertify, a free image/file converter I build solo.
- The honest version, with the walls I hit.
- Most "remove image background" tutorials end with pip install rembg and a happy screenshot.
- Mine started with a constraint: my whole backend is Rust, and I did not want to bolt a Python process onto it just to run one model.
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that part of an ongoing build-in-public series on Convertify, a free image/file converter I build solo.
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