Red vs Upload

Other languages have complex, multi-step setups that beginners often get stuck on. Red has no installer, no setup, no dependencies*, just a single small (~1MB) command-line executable with both the compiler and repl. On Windows, you don't even have to launch executable from the command line--it has a GUI-console.

Red syntax is a lot like Rebol. It's easier than most languages for beginners to pick up.

Red has low enough access to do systems programming, but it's expressive enough for high-level scripting.

Red has very simple syntax that's easy to learn. It gets out of your way and lets you think about the problem instead, enhancing productivity.

Upload.js installed into our web app in a few seconds. It's a lightweight library, so there's no UI elements. A "file input element" was already present on our page, and with Upload.js you set their helper method as the "onchange" attribute, and they take care of everything else from there.

Used their AI image cropping for some projects (you don't define crop geometry yourself -- they detect which part to crop for you), and manual cropping for others (where the user wanted to set which part of the image to crop in the UI). We're currently saving all our images out to webp.

Time savings aside, it's very cost-effective. Entry tier for like $7pm worked well for several client projects. Only upgraded to the $35pm tier because a client wanted password-protected files -- other than that, the quotas / limits are very generous.