Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Boostrapping transloadit.com

Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer Felix Geisendörfer
May 02, 2012
Technology
1
620

Boostrapping transloadit.com

Presentation given on 27.04.2012 at Roots conference in Bergen, Norway.

Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer

Felix Geisendörfer

May 02, 2012
Tweet

More Decks by Felix Geisendörfer

See All by Felix Geisendörfer
tus.io - Resumable File Uploads (Lightning Talk)
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
2
780
Programming flying robots with JavaScript
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
2
970
Programming flying robots with JavaScript
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
0
610
Programming an AR Drone Firmware with JS (de)
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
1
620
Faster than C?
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
1
1.2k
Flying robots over a 10.000 mile distance with JavaScript.
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
0
490
Faster than C?
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
1
650
The power of node.js (with quadcopters)
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
0
500
Faster than C?
Avatar for Felix Geisendörfer felixge
0
420

Other Decks in Technology

See All in Technology
SOC2取得の全体像
Avatar for shonansurvivors shonansurvivors
1
370
英語は話せません！それでも海外チームと信頼関係を作るため、対話を重ねた2ヶ月間のまなび
Avatar for ニイオカ niioka_97
0
100
自作LLM Native GORM Pluginで実現する AI Agentバックテスト基盤構築
Avatar for po3rin po3rin
2
240
AI駆動開発を推進するためにサービス開発チームで 取り組んでいること
Avatar for おーしろ noayaoshiro
0
120
PLaMo2シリーズのvLLM実装 / PFN LLM セミナー
Avatar for Preferred Networks pfn
PRO
2
960
いまさら聞けない ABテスト入門
Avatar for 木村彩恵（skmr2348） skmr2348
1
200
AI ReadyなData PlatformとしてのAutonomous Databaseアップデート
Avatar for oracle4engineer oracle4engineer
PRO
0
160
Azure Well-Architected Framework入門
Avatar for tomokusaba tomokusaba
0
280
GC25 Recap+: Advancing Go Garbage Collection with Green Tea
Avatar for Takuto Nagami logica0419
1
390
Railsアプリケーション開発者のためのブックガイド
Avatar for Masayoshi Takahashi takahashim
14
6.1k
SoccerNet GSRの紹介と技術応用：選手視点映像を提供するサッカー作戦盤ツール
Avatar for MIXI ENGINEERS mixi_engineers
PRO
1
170
20250929_QaaS_vol20
Avatar for Shin Murakami mura_shin
0
110

Featured

See All Featured
Site-Speed That Sticks
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
11
880
Mobile First: as difficult as doing things right
Avatar for Swwweet swwweet
224
10k
The Cost Of JavaScript in 2023
Avatar for Addy Osmani addyosmani
53
9k
Creating an realtime collaboration tool: Agile Flush - .NET Oxford
Avatar for Marc Duiker marcduiker
32
2.2k
Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design
Avatar for Aarron Walter aarron
274
40k
実際に使うSQLの書き方 徹底解説 / pgcon21j-tutorial
Avatar for soudai sone soudai
PRO
188
55k
Six Lessons from altMBA
Avatar for Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong
28
4k
How to train your dragon (web standard)
Avatar for Monica Dinculescu notwaldorf
96
6.3k
What’s in a name? Adding method to the madness
Avatar for Product Marketing Alliance productmarketing
PRO
23
3.7k
YesSQL, Process and Tooling at Scale
Avatar for Rocio Delgado rocio
173
14k
How to Think Like a Performance Engineer
Avatar for Harry Roberts csswizardry
27
2k
The Success of Rails: Ensuring Growth for the Next 100 Years
Avatar for Eileen M. Uchitelle eileencodes
46
7.6k

Transcript

  1. Bootstrapping transloadit.com by Felix Geisendörfer 27.04.2012 at Roots Conference (Bergen,

    Norway)

  2. core contributor

  3. (@)felixge(.de)

  4. This Talk

  5. Lean Startup

  6. Change the World

  7. Billion Dollar Exits

  8. Story of transloadit.com

  9. Starting a business

  10. Self-financing

  11. Becoming (ramen) profitable

  12. Freedom

  13. 90 minutes ...

  14. Format

  15. Interrupt

  16. Participate

  17. Audience

  18. In a startup?

  19. Want to start one?

  20. Let’s get started

  21. transloadit.com

  22. File Upload & Processing

  23. None
  24. None
  25. None

  26. Charging per $ / GB

  27. Profitable as of Feb 2012

  28. Scale: 5 - 50 servers

  29. Revenue: $ X0,000

  30. Technical Skills

  31. None
  32. None
  33. None
  34. None

  35. <HTML>

  36. None
  37. None
  38. None
  39. None
  40. None
  41. None
  42. None
  43. None
  44. None
  45. None
  46. None
  47. None

  48. The Idea

  49. December 2008

  50. Buenos Aires, Argentina CakeFest #2

  51. None
  52. None
  53. None

  54. Cross browser requests

  55. Cross-domain file uploads

  56. Cross-domain file uploads Profit ?

  57. Handle all media files!

  58. None

  59. Think Minimal!

  60. Co-founders

  61. Go alone, die alone

  62. How to find co- founders?

  63. Don’t search - Attract

  64. Co-Founder #1: Tim

  65. None

  66. ~mid 2007

  67. thinkingphp.org

  68. PostTask.com

  69. Started in early 2007

  70. None

  71. Failure

  72. Running out of savings

  73. Loosing Focus

  74. Co-Founder #2: Kevin

  75. ~mid 2008

  76. None
  77. None

  78. The E-Mail

  79. Shares

  80. Equal shares for co-founders

  81. Creating a company

  82. Why?

  83. Liability

  84. Perception

  85. Things to Consider

  86. Costs

  87. Time

  88. Bootstrapping with Contracting

  89. 2005 - 2012

  90. Acquiring Clients

  91. Blogging

  92. Networking

  93. Referrals

  94. Setting your rate

  95. Daily (!)

  96. High

  97. Dividing Time

  98. Development

  99. Release something ASAP

  100. Technology

  101. Use what’s fun

  102. Mix in reliable stuff

  103. Pricing

  104. Aim for expensive

  105. IaaS: Do Plans

  106. You *CAN* change it

  107. CreditCard trick

  108. Marketing

  109. Blogging

  110. Open Source

  111. Learn

  112. Trust

  113. Funding

  114. VC or not?

  115. Risks & Comfort

  116. Be pragmatic

  117. Office

  118. No

  119. The Future

  120. Final Advise

  121. Never Give Up

  122. Questions

  123. Thanks