Changelog

Latest updates and improvements to SourceSplash

v1.0.0October 17, 2025

🎉 Initial Release

✨ Features

  • Free image API with 4 providers (Pexels, Pixabay, Unsplash, Lorem Picsum)
  • Random image endpoint with query and dimension support
  • Category-based image endpoints (/api/random/:category)
  • Image search functionality
  • Direct hotlinking support with auto-rotation (every 3 minutes)
  • Tier-based rate limiting (100/hr free, 500/hr auth, 10k/hr pro)
  • Automatic provider fallback system
  • Google OAuth authentication
  • API key management dashboard
  • Usage statistics and analytics

💳 Billing & Subscriptions

  • Stripe integration for Pro subscriptions
  • Customer billing portal
  • Subscription management (upgrade, cancel, resume)
  • Three pricing tiers (Free, Pro, Enterprise)

🛠️ Developer Tools

  • Official npm package (sourcesplash)
  • Comprehensive API documentation
  • Code examples (HTML, React, Node.js, Python, PHP)
  • Interactive API playground
  • Laravel Telescope for debugging

⚡ Performance

  • Redis caching with 1-hour TTL
  • Database indexing for optimized queries
  • Scheduled daily cache refresh (3 AM)
  • CDN-ready architecture

🔐 Admin Panel

  • Dashboard with key metrics
  • User management (view, suspend, admin toggle)
  • System health monitoring
  • Cache management controls
  • Provider status checking

🎨 Frontend

  • Beautiful landing page with live demo
  • Pricing page with three tiers
  • Comprehensive documentation
  • User dashboard with API key management
  • Copy-to-clipboard functionality
  • SEO optimized with Open Graph tags
  • Dark mode support

🚀 Coming Soon

  • • Image collections (curated sets)
  • • Custom image uploads
  • • Webhook notifications for usage limits
  • • GraphQL API
  • • Image filters (blur, grayscale, etc.)
  • • WordPress & Shopify plugins