We are happy to let you know that we have open-sourced our jQuery plugin on Github.

transloadit/jquery-sdk

While doing that, we also added a very cool new feature: events for uploads and results. This means you can now give the jQuery plugin an onUpload or onResult callback, and it will let you know about your file uploads in realtime! A demo will be online soon!

We are now also compiling the plugin using the google closure compiler, you might get a kick out of our Makefile.

To use the new plugin version, make source you include it from assets.transloadit.com.

--fg

You wanted it, you got it. We are happy to present to you:

Feel It - our free plan including 1 GB usage!

While your wallet remains entirely untouched with this plan, we do require a little love in return, namely embedding our badge.

--fg

We have been hard at work this weekend, and one of the first things to come out of it is our shiny new Transloadit iPhone SDK:

The SDK contains a simple example project, as well as a stand-alone TransloaditRequest class you can use in your apps. Images are handled just as well as videos, and the project also uses threading to make sure your users have a great experience with no UI freezes.

A huge thanks goes to Ben Copsey for creating the fantastic ASIHttpRequest library we are using.

The iPhone SDK is the first one we are releasing, because it is the most challenging to roll yourself. Full featured examples for PHP and Ruby will show up in our Github account next.

--fg

Today we are thrilled to announce the commercial availability of transloadit.com.

If you have a web (or mobile) application that needs file uploading you should consider integrating transloadit. Transloadit will handle the upload process, resizing of images, encoding of videos, and final storage of your content on Amazon S3 for you.

Our plans start at $19 / month which includes 3.5 GB of usage. This is enough for ~72 video encodings or ~717 image resizes per month.

This project has been almost two years in the making, with over 150 people participating in testing various versions. The version we are shipping now has already executed 55.000 internal jobs, each spawning 2-5 command line scripts on our servers.

We are also one of the first commercial software / infrastructure as a service product built on node.js. After experimenting with various technologies, we found it to be the perfect fit for our uploading and processing requirements.

Another thing we are very proud of is the ~95% of test coverage of the service's code base. We have an extensive suite of unit, integration and system tests that have already proven incredibly reliable for detecting problems, be it in our code, or changes to our stack.

If you are a long time reader of this blog, we would feel incredibly grateful if you would spread the word about our service to your boss, co-workers and geek-friends.

Otherwise we would be very happy to hear as much feedback, ideas and questions as you can come up with!

--fg

PS: I also want to use this opportunity to thank my co-founders Tim and Kevin for being the best partners in this business I can imagine. I love you guys.

Exciting news, we have overcome our earlier setback and are now headed for launching on:

Tuesday, July 13

What's new? Well, everything. We rewrote the entire system. As you know, rewriting can be a very nerve-wrecking experience, but we did not compromise on the quality goals we set:

• Every single line of code in api2 has a unit test
• Every major component has an integration test
• There is a suite of 25 system tests

This has turned out to be the best decision we have ever made. A client of ours has been using the new system since June 8, and it has been rock-solid from day one. At this point transloadit is processing around 100 uploads a day with over 30,000 internal jobs spawned so far. We couldn't be happier.

What does this mean for you? Well, you can already start experimenting with the new version today. We have updated our documentation, and all the functionality is in place. At this point we are mostly working on the payment system and additional reporting tools.

On July 13, we will announce our official pricing.

Thanks to everybody who has helped with testing and provided their feedback!

--fg