Laazy

Laazy is a product that was built by a small group of friends I met while traveling the world with Remote Year. During Remote Year I traveled the world with 45 talented professionals. The range of professions was diverse including software engineers, designers, digital marketers, entrepenuers, lawyers and the list goes on. Early on in the year there was already business ideas and products being collaborated on. One of these was Laazy, an idea for a product brainstormed and founded by my good friend, Josh Bondy.

Laazy is a web application that allows you to customize and manipulate images in bulk, or one at a time. The idea is to allow content producers to save time and optimize effeciency in creating a pipeline of customizable actions. Here's some copy from one of our blog articles that explains it better than I can.

"Laazy is a web-based tool that allows you to build a pipeline of customizable actions to manipulate your images. Laazy is flexible enough for all your custom jobs, powerful enough to support large image batches, and intuitive enough for non-techies. It’s for those repetitive jobs when Photoshop is overkill, but Paint just won’t cut it."

This was my first time being apart of a start up from the very beginning. It was exciting, it was fun, and I wish I could have quit my other job to work on it full time. Being apart of the team from the very beginning, having a say in what technology gets used, and being apart of a very collaborative process where your opinions are heard is a very satisfying experience. And as with any new product you're constantly iterating based on user feedback. Fortunately, we had a large network of friends that were happy to provide feedback.

The product was built on top of Angular and Angular Material powering the front end while Firebase was used for the backend and database. This was a great experience for me learning more about Firebase and not to mention image manipulation in general. A proud moment for the team was when Laazy was featured on Product Hunt and we placed in the top 10 products that day recieving 375 votes. Laazy is still in active development recieving updates and improvements. You can test Laazy out for yourself at https://laazy.io/ . A good use case for using Laazy is the next time you have a blog post, use it to create all the image assets you need for Facebook, Twitter, instagram, LinkedIn, etc.