MANIFESTO

THE WEB IS TOO SOFT.

We're tired of gradients. Tired of drop shadows. Tired of dark-mode toggle buttons that take 200 milliseconds to fade in. Tired of friendly mascots explaining how our AI-powered, blockchain-secured, cloud-native converter is revolutionising the way you wrangle your bits.

PNGAXE is a hatchet. You give it an AVIF, WebP, JPEG, PNG, HEIC, GIF, TIFF or SVG, it chops that thing into a clean PNG. That's it. That's the product. No mascot. No pitch deck. No Series A.

WHY WE'RE BRUTALIST

Brutalism in architecture meant: expose the structure. Show the concrete. Don't pretend the building is something it isn't. The web forgot that. PNGAXE remembers.

Big type. Hard borders. One accent color. No animations longer than 100ms. Cursor: crosshair. We are not cute. We are useful.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

  • Tools should be fast. Under 100ms feels like a tool. Over 1s feels like a website.
  • Tools should be honest. No dark patterns. No upsell modals. No "are you sure?"
  • Tools should be small. One job, done well. We do one job.
  • Open is the default. Our conversion pipeline is open-source. Pay only if you want more chops.

READY?