
How I Built Freecropper.com and Got 200+ Users in 7 Days
I am a content creator. Last month I uploaded a video to TikTok. Used a "free" online cropper tool. Left a watermark. Looked like spam. Comment section roasted me. Algorithm buried my content. Got flagged for spam. Deleted the post. Started over. But I kept using those tools. Because what else was I going to do? Upload my footage to random servers? Pay $12/month just to remove a watermark? Manually crop the same video four times — because TikTok wants 9:16, Instagram feed prefers 4:5, YouTube works best in 16:9, and square still performs better in some placements? I was done. What happened next I spent two weeks building freecropper.com Runs in your browser Videos never leave your machine No account No watermark Handles 2GB files The face detection part took the longest. Used Google's MediaPipe. When you crop from 16:9 to 9:16, it finds where the face is and keeps it centered. Why browser? Servers cost money. I'd have to charge you or run ads or sell your data. Browser version costs me
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