Add placepix project

[GhaziTriki]

Project

placepix

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• PR title format: Add placepix
• Entry format: - [placepix](url) - Description ending with period.
• Description is concise and short

Why This Project Is Awesome

Which criterion does it meet? (pick one)

• Industry Standard - The go-to tool for a specific use case
• Rising Star - 5000+ stars in < 2 years, significant adoption
• Hidden Gem - Exceptional quality, solves niche problems elegantly

Explain:

PlacePix is a production-grade, self-hosted placeholder image server that fills a gap between basic libraries (Pillow, Wand) and heavy SaaS services (Cloudinary, Imgix). It ships as a complete FastAPI application with on-the-fly resizing, 20+ filters and effects, format conversion (JPEG/PNG/WebP/AVIF), smart cropping via OpenCV face detection, watermarking, S3-compatible storage, an interactive web UI, and an admin dashboard. The codebase demonstrates production patterns rarely seen in open-source image tools: request coalescing, file-watchdog hot-reload, TTL-based cache eviction, background scheduling, and metrics tracking. It is actively maintained by RIADVICE and already has a live demo at https://placepix.net.

How It Differs

If similar entries exist, what makes this one unique?

• thumbor is the closest comparison — both are on-demand image processing services. However, thumbor is a legacy Python 2/3 project focused purely on transforms, while PlacePix is a modern FastAPI application with a built-in web UI, upload API, srcset generation, solid-color placeholders, aspect-ratio sizing, preset dimensions for social media, AI image generation integration, and a full admin dashboard — all in a single self-contained server with Docker support out of the box.

[JinyangWang27]

@GhaziTriki Thanks for your submission. However, this project does not meet our acceptance criteria:

Repository age: The repository was created 1 week ago. We require a minimum of 3 months (or 6 months for Hidden Gem submissions) to ensure project stability.

GitHub stars: 0 star (minimum 100 required, or strong justification for Hidden Gem).

Please see our CONTRIBUTING.md for full requirements. You're welcome to resubmit once the project has matured and gained community traction.