scratched a million off my checklist 3 years ago

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If you're a startup, the MVP is just a tiny first step: the beginning of a long journey. If you're working in an agency, the actual MVP launch is the end point. We were used to launching projects, but we didn't know much about what to do once the MVP got launched.

#SCRATCHED A MILLION OFF MY CHECKLIST 3 YEARS AGO HOW TO#

The pros are a deep knowledge of how to gather a team that can build an MVP, and knowledge of how to launch it in production. There are pros and cons of having experience working as a web dev agency. What went into building the initial product? We thought that those lists were bullshit, but some of them work. The VC found Uploadcare in one of those 'Top 10 tech startups' lists, and we signed a deal in under two weeks. Since then we've invested $30k of our own funds and received an angel investment of $250k from one of the Vaizra Investments partners. The feedback was pretty inspiring it helped us get a Google Group of hundreds of early adopters. When a file upload or delivery fails, you lose a customer.īefore we began investing our time and money, we'd run some customer development surveys asking the most powerful community of skilled engineers if they needed a file management SaaS product. Since then we've found out the problem addresses much larger audiences: not just developers, but businesses. Not just for ourselves but every developer, everywhere. Long story short, we decided to solve the file upload problem once and for all. It can cost you thousands of dollars, while you might save just a few hundreds in the very beginning. Also, when using an open-source product, you have to spend a lot of time maintaining it. Our engineers tried implementing ready-made building blocks like Uploadify, but there were no solutions that could handle all our requirements (such as uploading large files, processing media, editing images in browsers, etc.).

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Of course, we attempted to skip this manual work. While developing an MVP usually takes about two months, spending two man-weeks on file uploads alone just didn't feel right.

Furthermore, we needed to maintain consistency and quality for this part of every project we supported. Those were in a lot of different industries: e-commerce, classifieds, SaaS, printing shops, social media, and more.Įvery time we found ourselves developing a new thing, one component always had to be reproduced from scratch: file uploads. Well, as mentioned, we've already developed more than 150 different projects as a web development agency. What motivated you to get started with Uploadcare? We always wanted to start working on our products, but creating an agency was necessary to acquire the initial capital and, more importantly, relevant knowledge and skills.īefore starting Uploadcare, we managed to scale Whitescape up to EUR 1M in gross revenue and launched more than 150 projects for our customers, including Intel, Microsoft, and L'Oreal. Ten years ago my partner and I co-founded a web development agency: Whitescape. I'm Igor Debatur, CEO of Uploadcare and a board member with RIDERS. Hello! What's your background, and what are you working on?

Scratched a million off my checklist 3 years ago