StashPic
Drop-in image hosting for personal bloggers and Obsidian/Typora users running on cheap Telegram-backed storage, so you stop paying S3 bills or losing pictures on free hosts.
personal bloggers and Obsidian/Typora note-takers who want a reliable, long-term image CDN without managing servers
- One-click Obsidian and Typora plugin that auto-uploads pasted screenshots to your CDN
- Custom-domain support so image URLs stay branded to your blog or notes
- Automatic WebP compression and responsive size variants generated on upload
- Free 5GB tier with paid upgrades; never silently deletes dormant images
GitHub trending shows real DIY demand for cheap long-term image hosting; Obsidian and Markdown note-taking are exploding and free hosts keep deleting old images
Obsidian/Typora image-loss pain is real (multiple forum threads, plugins like obsidian-paste-image and image-classify-paste) but the underlying 91-star GitHub repo shows modest DIY interest, not viral demand — and free incumbents (Imgur, ImgBB, PostImages, Cloudinary free tier) already serve this audience.Images are not being displayed - Bug graveyard - Obsidian Forum ↗Best Free Image Hosting Sites 2026 - filecast.online ↗
Crowded, not white-space: tas33n/telegram-image-hosting, codecrumb/TeleHost, ebinxavier/telegramCloudStorage, and 17tayyy/TgCloud already ship Telegram-backed image/file hosts, and PicGo's plugin ecosystem dominates Markdown image upload workflows.tas33n/telegram-image-hosting - GitHub ↗codecrumb/TeleHost - GitHub ↗image-hosting · GitHub Topics ↗
Target users explicitly want to escape bills — they're cheap-host refugees; PicGo is free OSS, ImgBB/PostImages are free, and Telegram-backed projects (TeleHost, tg_cdn) ship free. Willingness to pay for what is essentially a thin wrapper over free TG storage is weak.TeleHost: Self-hosted image hosting (Imgur/Flickr alt) ↗Best Free Image Hosting Sites 2026 - ExpertPhotography ↗
Telegram-backed storage has known fragility: Bot API file_path expires in ~1h, 50MB cap, rate limits, volatility, and documented abuse-driven bans — a single ToS change or bot-flag can break the whole stack; tg_cdn repo itself already 404s, signaling project mortality.Telegram Bot File Storage — Durable CDN URLs | files.link ↗Telegram Bot API Abuse - Netlas Blog ↗
Trivial to build — multiple open-source reference implementations (TeleHost, TgCloud, tas33n/telegram-image-hosting) provide copy-paste blueprints using Cloudflare Pages + TG Bot API; only real engineering is the wrapper UX and Obsidian/Typora plugin integration.17tayyy/TgCloud - GitHub ↗tas33n/telegram-image-hosting - GitHub ↗