Automatically shrink image file sizes in Google Drive

New images added to a Google Drive folder are automatically compressed and saved back, smaller and ready to use.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
File & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveTinyPNG

The problem it solves

You upload images to Google Drive for a website or project, but large file sizes slow everything down. Manually compressing every image before uploading is a step you keep forgetting.

Who it fits

A website owner, marketer, or small team that uploads a lot of images and needs smaller file sizes.

How it works

  1. A new image lands in your chosen Google Drive folder
  2. It's sent to an image optimization service that reduces its file size
  3. The optimized image is saved back to your chosen Google Drive folder
What you get

Images shrunk without you touching them

Every new image you add to Drive comes back smaller and ready to use, without you opening a compression tool.

What you get

A smaller, optimized version of every image automatically saved to Google Drive.

What you need

A Google Drive account and a TinyPNG account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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