Last updated: May 29, 2024 # Celebrating 10 years of Transloadit with special offers ![Kevin van Zonneveld](/assets/images/teammates/avatar-kvz-4.jpg?dpl=dpl_6nhQNS5wkVkPZWuKMzXcWrAHNJL5) **Kevin van Zonneveld** Co-founder · Amsterdam, The Netherlands · Show bio [](https://x.com/kvz)[](https://github.com/kvz) Happy birthday to... us! Transloadit turns 10 today. To celebrate, we want to offer a token of our appreciation to our most loyal customers. So, for the next 10 years, customers who have been with Transloadit for 10 years can[claim](mailto:support@transloadit.com)a 10-year-old bottle of wine 🍷 In addition, anyone can use the coupon code `TRANSLOADIT10X` to knock 10% off the first year of any plan upgrade or signup (valid until 28 September 2019). ![Large text saying '10 year anniversary' in the middle, with the Transloadit logo below. Silhouettes of fireworks are in the background.](/_next/static/immutable/media/opengraph-image.2mciolycs4wns.jpg) Over the course of the past 10 years, Transloadit has grown from being little more than an idea in the minds of three young developers into a bustling company with a core team of more than 10 people, providing our file uploading and processing service to companies around the world. We've seen many milestones along the way and it was hard to pick the ones to share with you today. We hired over 30 people, opened 3 [datacenters](/blog/2018/12/launching-asia-pacific-and-network-changes.md), launched 4 [design overhauls](/blog/2015/01/a-shiny-new-website.md), entered custom[scaling](/blog/2015/08/instance-ceiling-raised.md) agreements with Amazon (nearly 100X of what regular AWS customers can do), are projected to process our 10th petabyte of data this year (that's 10 million gigabytes), shipped [39 Robots](/services.md) and [countless](/blog.md) other features. But for the timeline below, we'll focus on milestones that affected the company's course, rather than our offering. * January 2008\ ![🏗️ Debuggable Ltd is founded](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-debuggable.png) ### 🏗️ Debuggable Ltd is founded [Tim](/about.md#tim) and [Felix](/about.md#felix) found [Debuggable⁠](http://debuggable.com/), a web consultancy in Berlin. They both become core contributors and active community members to CakePHP. Three months later, Felix meets [Kevin](/about.md#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. * January 2009\ ![💻 The first commit](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-code.png) ### 💻 The first commit The first actual code hits our API2 repository on GitHub. * July 2009\ ![👥 Founders meet IRL](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-mate.jpeg) ### 👥 Founders meet IRL We brainstorm about things like authentication and our tagline. We also play[Fork Master⁠](http://forkmaster.com/) and Kevin is introduced to[Club Mate⁠](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club-Mate), the "famous", heavily-caffeinated beverage from Berlin. * August 2009\ ![💼 First paying customer](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-rocket.png) ### 💼 First paying customer On August 28, we become a real company by having the first paying user account sign up.[Mariano⁠](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marianoiglesias/) from Workana is a customer to this day ❤️ You can claim your ten-year-old bottle of wine, Mariano! * December 2010 ### ⚡ Realtime encoding is launched [This feature](/blog/2010/12/realtime-encoding-over-150x-faster.md) is an industry first and gets coverage on the[AWS blog⁠](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/transloadit-realtime-video-encoding-on-amazon-ec2/). Being among, or maybe the actual[first to run Node.js⁠](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commits?author=felixge) in production was[risky](/blog/2010/04/to-launch-or-not.md), but paid off in the end. * May 2012 ### 🍜 We're now ramen profitable This means we *could* live off of Transloadit if we'd be okay with a diet of ramen noodles. * June 2012\ ![🏢 Transloadit Ltd is founded](/assets/images/artwork/logos-transloadit-default.png)![🏢 Transloadit Ltd is founded](/assets/images/artwork/logos-transloadit-white.png) ### 🏢 Transloadit Ltd is founded 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](/blog/2019/03/changing-our-legal-entity.md). * July 2012\ ![🎓 Coursera becomes a customer](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-coursera.png) ### 🎓 Coursera becomes a customer [Coursera](/casestudies/2015/02/coursera.md) is a[MOOC⁠](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%5Fopen%5Fonline%5Fcourse) 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. * April 2013\ ![🌐 We start tus.io](/assets/images/artwork/logos-tus-default.png)![🌐 We start tus.io](/assets/images/artwork/logos-tus-dark.png) ### 🌐 We start tus.io Fed up with reports of broken uploads and HTTP only caring about resumability of downloads, we take the[first swing⁠](https://github.com/tus/tus-resumable-upload-protocol/commit/934ddbd995ea6991032a181dc4d56efdd7170d10)at an [open protocol for resumable file uploads⁠](https://tus.io/) (an industry first). * April 2014 ### 📺 MTV Europe becomes a customer Besides significant traffic, this name gave us the credibility that allowed us to reel in new customers. * July 2014 ### 📈 Revenue nearly doubles 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. * May 2015\ ![📰 The New York Times becomes a customer](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-nyt.png) ### 📰 The New York Times becomes a customer Their name and logo add credibility to our service. They also challenge us to thoroughly review (and improve) our [legal framework](/legal/privacy.md). * October 2015\ ![📤 We start Uppy](/assets/images/blog/2019-08-uppy.svg) ### 📤 We start Uppy Initially, we thought to build a proprietary uploader and posted a[job ad](/jobs/2015/10/front-end-developer.md) for it. We then decided that this project needed to be open source and [announced⁠](https://uppy.io/blog/2016/07/uppy-begins/) [Uppy⁠](https://uppy.io) eight months later. * November 2015 ### 👥 We hire our tenth Transloadian Our new recruits for the Uppy projects push the counter into double digits. * March 2016\ ![🌍 First global team meetup](/assets/images/blog/2016-03-ams-brouwerijtij.jpg) ### 🌍 First global team meetup We fly folks from all over the world to Amsterdam and[have a blast](/blog/2016/03/transloadit-team-meetup.md). * July 2017\ ![💪 Uppy becomes ridiculously robust](/assets/images/blog/2017-08-meetup-mkoutfit.jpg) ### 💪 Uppy becomes ridiculously robust During our second global team [meetup](/blog/2017/08/team-meetup-2017.md) in Berlin, we add[a feature⁠](https://uppy.io/blog/2017/07/golden-retriever/) that lets Uppy recover from unstable networks (tus powered) and browser crashes (an industry first). It's big on Reddit[1⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/6qva2w/uppyio%5Fmake%5Ffile%5Fuploads%5Fsurvive%5Fbrowser%5Fcrashes/) [2⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6rb6dy/uppyio%5Fmake%5Ffile%5Fuploads%5Fsurvive%5Fbrowser%5Fcrashes/) [3⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/web%5Fdesign/comments/6r36sb/uppyio%5Fmake%5Ffile%5Fuploads%5Fsurvive%5Fbrowser%5Fcrashes/). * December 2017 ### 📰 We start a newsletter We call it [The Dev Times](/newsletters/devtimes-001.md) and each month, it brings you three general dev and two Transloadit updates. * February 2018\ ![📈 tus gets traction](/assets/images/case-studies/vimeo.png) ### 📈 tus gets traction After launching [1.0⁠](https://tus.io/blog/2015/11/16/tus10),[Cloudflare⁠](https://community.cloudflare.com/t/cloudflare-stream-beta-feedback/11434/19) and[Vimeo⁠](https://medium.com/vimeo-engineering-blog/introducing-the-new-vimeo-upload-api-3e208a2da760)start using tus in production. [Git LFS adopts tus⁠](https://github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/pull/1303) as a transport. * March 2019\ ![🏢 Transloadit GmbH is founded](/assets/images/blog/2019-02-brexit.jpg) ### 🏢 Transloadit GmbH is founded Weary of the possibility of a hard brexit and its potential[dire consequences](/blog/2019/03/changing-our-legal-entity.md), we flee the UK. Transloadit continues on as a German limited liability company. * April 2019 ### 🐶 Uppy hits 1.0 [The launch⁠](https://uppy.io/blog/2019/04/1.0/) is well received and gets love on[Hacker News⁠](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19756159), Reddit[1⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/bhkx5k/uppy%5F10%5Fyour%5Fbest%5Ffriend%5Fin%5Ffile%5Fuploading/) [2⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/bhw8wi/uppy%5F10%5Fyour%5Fbest%5Ffriend%5Fin%5Ffile%5Fuploading/) [3⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/reactnative/comments/bhrjso/uppy%5F10%5Fyour%5Fbest%5Ffriend%5Fin%5Ffile%5Fuploading/) [4⁠](https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/bhpux4/uppy%5F10%5Fyour%5Fbest%5Ffriend%5Fin%5Ffile%5Fuploading/),[Smashingmag⁠](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/the-smashing-newsletter/smashing-newsletter-issue-197/),[Product Hunt⁠](https://www.producthunt.com/posts/uppy-1-0/) and[Javascript Daily⁠](https://twitter.com/JavaScriptDaily/status/1122935583603556352). It also reaches ⭐️ 20k+ stars on GitHub. * August 2019\ ![🤝 GitHub announces partnership with Transloadit](/assets/images/newsletter/021/transloadit.jpg) ### 🤝 GitHub announces partnership with Transloadit We’re among the first 50 companies that GitHub partners with to provide students free service through the[GitHub Student Developer Pack⁠](https://github.blog/2019-08-20-the-github-student-developer-pack-is-back/). We're [offering](/github-students.md) our Startup Plan for free to students enrolled in the Pack. * August 2019 ### 🎂 Our 10th birthday What is the [birthday](/blog/2019/08/transloadit-10x.md) 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 🎉 Thanks for reading to the end. We're going to take it easy today and treat our remote team to some gaming and cake! 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