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Smaller PNGs, same picture. Lossy PNG compression that picks the quality for you: 8–12% smaller than TinyPNG at the same quality. Why it matters: a developer project picking up unusual momentum.

GitHub description: Smaller PNGs, same picture. Lossy PNG compression that picks the quality for you: 8–12% smaller than TinyPNG at the same quality. Command line and in the browser.

Stars

171

Last 24h

+34

Last 7 days

+171

Forks

14

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Star history

GitHub stars over time. A steeper line means the repo is gaining attention faster.

Daily, since Oct 26, 2026 · 137 → 171

Daily star count for heydeer/pngdeer171137Oct 26, 2026Oct 27, 2026

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Hacker News is a popular tech discussion site. 1 story links to this repo, with 1 upvotes (points) in total.

Pngdeer – a Rust PNG compression library that rivals TinyPNG1 points · 0 comments · Oct 26, 2026

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About pngdeer

heydeer/pngdeer is a Rust project in the Other category, created 2 days ago. It has 171 GitHub stars and 14 forks, and gained +171 stars over the last 7 days, ranking #22 of 24 Other repos tracked by OSS Radar this week.

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Language
Rust
Category
Other
License
MIT
Created
Oct 25, 2026
Last code push
today (Oct 27, 2026)
Latest release
No releases yet
  • CLI
  • color quantization
  • image compression
  • png
  • png compression
  • Rust
  • webassembly

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