Acerca de 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.

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.

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.

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.

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). `

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 🎉

Launched Transloadit's Smart CDN: on-demand, URL-driven transformations cached at the edge worldwide. Introduced secure URL signing and deep integration with 🤖/file/serve and 🤖/tlcdn/deliver, enabling apps to serve transformed media directly from the CDN.

After 5 years and navigating through the pandemic, our global team finally reunited in person in Berlin, strengthening bonds and planning the future of file processing together.

Published a major case study showcasing Supabase's adoption of the Tus protocol, demonstrating how our open-source technology powers file uploads for thousands of developers worldwide. Read more

Major Uppy release with a complete TypeScript rewrite, new React hooks (useUppyState, useUppyEvent), Google Photos support, merged S3 plugins with smart multipart switching, UX improvements for remote sources, and revamped XHR hooks.

Rolled out support for files up to 200 GB across uploads and imports, backed by Single‑AZ EFS and extended Assembly expiry for long transfers. This enables true large‑media workflows end‑to‑end.

Introduced 🤖/video/ondemand: adaptive HLS playlists encoded only when watched and cached at the edge via Smart CDN, cutting costs for long-form content while enabling instant playback.

Introduced headless UI components and hooks for truly composable upload experiences across React, Vue, and Svelte. Export maps for all packages, subpath imports for leaner peer deps, merged UI plugins into Dashboard, and significant monorepo/tooling upgrades. Read more