About Transloadit

Tim and Felix found Debuggable, a web consultancy in Berlin. They both become core contributors and active community members to CakePHP. Three months later, Felix meets Kevin (who lives a six-hour train ride away in Amsterdam) through his open source project Locutus. The idea for Transloadit is kicked around via email before we decide the three of us should team up.

The first actual code hits our API2 repository on GitHub.

We brainstorm about things like authentication and our tagline. We also play Fork Master and Kevin is introduced to Club Mate, the "famous", heavily-caffeinated beverage from Berlin.

On August 28, we become a real company by having the first paying user account sign up. Mariano from Workana is a customer to this day You can claim your ten-year-old bottle of wine, Mariano!

This feature is an 🥇 industry first and gets coverage on the AWS blog. Being among, or maybe the actual first to run Node.js in production was risky, but paid off in the end.

This means we could live off of Transloadit if we'd be okay with a diet of ramen noodles.

We found a new company and each own a third: Transloadit Ltd. So far, we had been running the service as a product under the flag of Debuggable Ltd.

Coursera is a MOOC provider, making university courses available online for free. They use Transloadit to process the digital assets. With their large batch imports and valuable feedback, they help launch us to a next level.

Fed up with reports of broken uploads and HTTP only caring about resumability of downloads, we take the first swing at an open protocol for resumable file uploads (an 🥇 industry first).

Besides significant traffic, this name gave us the credibility that allowed us to reel in new customers.

We no longer need to do consultancy work on the side. Kevin and Tim now both work fulltime on Transloadit. Felix left the company three months earlier and started consulting for Apple.

Their name and logo add credibility to our service. They also challenge us to thoroughly review (and improve) our legal framework.

Initially, we thought to build a proprietary uploader and posted a job ad for it. We then decided that this project needed to be open source and announced Uppy eight months later.

Our new recruits for the Uppy projects push the counter into double digits.

We fly folks from all over the world to Amsterdam and have a blast.

During our second global team meetup in Berlin, we add a feature that lets Uppy recover from unstable networks (tus powered) and browser crashes (an 🥇 industry first). It's big on Reddit ^{1 2 3}.

We call it The Dev Times and each month, it brings you three general dev and two Transloadit updates.

After launching 1.0, Cloudflare and Vimeo start using tus in production. Git LFS adopts tus as a transport.

After the US and EU, we open a datacenter in Singapore to reduce latencies and become a viable encoding engine to power businesses in Asia.

Weary of the possibility of a hard brexit and its potential dire consequences, we flee the UK. Transloadit continues on as a German limited liability company.

The launch is well received and gets love on Hacker News, Reddit ^{1 2 3 4}, Smashingmag, Product Hunt and Javascript Daily. It also reaches 20k+ stars on GitHub.

We’re among the first 50 companies that GitHub partners with to provide students free service through the GitHub Student Developer Pack. We're offering our Startup Plan for free to students enrolled in the Pack.

What is the birthday of a company? First idea? First founder meetup? First commit? Registry date of a legal entity? In our minds, we became a real company when we got our first paying customer, which is August 28, 2009