# heydeer/pngdeer

> A lossy PNG compressor that automatically picks the palette size and dithering for each image by scoring results with a perceptual metric, available as a CLI and a WebAssembly browser app.

- Magnitude: 2.9 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 133 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-26, 20:11–21:46 UTC, ≈ 1 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: Rust · License: MIT · Created: 2026-10-25 · Last push: 2026-10-26
- GitHub: https://github.com/heydeer/pngdeer · Homepage: https://heydeer.ai/open-source/pngdeer · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/heydeer/pngdeer

## Useful for

- Compress PNG assets in a build pipeline via the CLI to cut file sizes.
- Compress images in the browser without uploading them to a server.
- Compare pngdeer output against TinyPNG or pngquant at a fixed quality target.

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-26 (UTC), 20:11–21:46: 132 → 133 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +1 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 1 day old and already has 133 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #196.
- About 20 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 11
- Issues and pull requests: 2
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 16 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 1

## Stars per day, last 2 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-25 … 2026-10-26: 30, 1

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #196

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-26 21:55 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.