Case Study: Wishbone.org achieves scalable, face-centered avatar uploads and reduced development time with Filestack

Wishbone.org - Customer Case Study

Wishbone.org is a non-profit crowdsourcing platform that helps low-income high school students apply for summer programs and scholarships. The site needed to handle thousands of user avatar uploads and ensure photos were properly centered and cropped for multiple layouts — a task that would have required building and maintaining a custom image backend. To solve this, Wishbone.org’s developer integrated Filestack (using the Filestack API, uploader and facial recognition/cropping features).

Filestack’s uploader, URL-based dynamic resizing and facial-recognition centering handled the bulk image processing and formatting, allowing Wishbone.org to process thousands of images without building its own infrastructure. The result: significantly reduced development time and maintenance, designers can change layouts without backend changes, and the team can focus on fundraising and platform features rather than image plumbing — a clear time- and cost-saving win using Filestack.

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