Shotstack
Build video apps without worrying about infrastructure
It's been over 5 years since I embarked on my start up journey and launched Shotstack. In fact it's more than 8 years since I cobbled together the first prototype.
It's been a wild ride and an amazing experience but my goals and priorities have changed and I have made the difficult decision to move on. It's been a few months now but I've left Shotstack in the more than capable hands of my co-founder and the team we built. While I might miss out, I'm rooting for them to build a unicorn.
I'm moving on to new things and looking forward to the next chapter.
It's been a long journey from quitting my full time software engineer job to the point where my startup can pay my co-founder and I a minimum wage. In between there has been Covid, home schooling, part time jobs to pay the bills and late nights building. So good to have bootstrapped this far and finally have the time to focus on one thing.
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Hey @jeffs. Super cool product. How did you come up with this idea? I'm really couriers to know how was your journey.
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Hi @malithmc, this started as a passion project many years ago. It started life as this: http://sickedits.com - a front end video editor, using AI. But for various reasons I shelved that but was left with the API which I thought might be useful and something I could sell B2B.
3 years ago I got in to an accelerator, quit my job, and went full time, then back to part time working on it. It took a few years to get revenue up, very slow at first but then started picking up much faster.
Just got to be patient, have belief and make ends meet in between.
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