Blog - Gumlet

Thoughts, stories and ideas about video transcoding and delivery.

2023 in Review

2023 in Review

3 min read

2023 marked a transformative period of growth for Gumlet. Our commitment to simplifying and democratizing video technology has driven us to evolve our products completely. Here's a condensed overview of our journey in 2023.

Aditya Patadia
This winter is not AI winter

This winter is not AI winter

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Gumlet has launched AI updates like automatic subtitles, automatic background removal, image upscale and smart search. This update blog covers these aspects in depth.

Aditya Patadia
The Story of Community Turnaround

The Story of Community Turnaround

5 min read

At Gumlet, we increased traffic in our community from 0 → 2000 and signups from 0 → 60 per month. This is a story of how we did it.

Aditya Patadia
Raining Features: Monsoon Product Update Deluge!

Raining Features: Monsoon Product Update Deluge!

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As part of our ongoing commitment to providing the best possible user experience, we are excited to announce several new features and improvements that we have rolled out recently. These enhancements are designed to empower content creators, streamline workflows, and enhance the overall functionality of our platform. Let's dive right in and explore the exciting new additions. New Website (and blogs) 📜 Let's start with the most exciting change: we have a new website design! But it's not just

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JPEG-XL: Our next 20 year bet

JPEG-XL: Our next 20 year bet

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JPEG-XL is newest image format and Gumlet is first cloud provider to support it. Apple has announced support for the same in upcoming operating systems and Safari.

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Content Management Update

Content Management Update

4 min read

Videos are hard to process, stream and manage. The last part is actually harder than it seems. You start with few videos and then end up with few hundreds and sometimes even thousands. How do you manage them effectively? We asked this question and designed something that is going to be massively helpful to our users. Let's jump into details. Video CMS Our new CMS gives everyone many ways to organise videos and while making it super easy to work with large content library. New Home 🏠 Firs

Aditya Patadia
2022: Year in Review

2022: Year in Review

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2022 has been a momentous year for us at Gumlet. A year of learning, growth and valuable lessons. This year changed the narrative of our start-up journey for the better and taught us a lot along the way. We decided to take some time and mark the milestones before we move ahead to another adventurous year. Here we go! Team Updates We started the year with 15 of us working across India and were joined by like-minded, driven teammates along the way. We are now 26 strong. Most of us still work re

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Six Gumleteers and 111 Epic Videos

Six Gumleteers and 111 Epic Videos

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Gumlet built a video guestbook app for the attendees at React India Conference. A small idea turned out to be a big attraction at the event.

Kaustubh
Monsoon'22 Update

Monsoon'22 Update

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Monsoon is upon us, and new features and updates are pouring in for the Gumlet community. We are thrilled to announce some of our most significant feature releases in a long time. Let's dive in. Instant Video Transcoding Gumlet's video flow looked like this: Start processing ➡ Transcode ➡ Webhook Notification ➡ Start streaming. This was a problem for our social media customers, who needed their videos available instantly. Waiting for transcoding and listening for the webhook was painful and s

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