First time I'm the one answering questions. StreamPot story, lessons and acquisition (exact details $) 00:44 - Origins 03:31 - Launch 05:44 - Scale issues 14:40 - Co-founders 20:20 - Video = hard 26:11 - VCs 29:58 - ittybit acquisition 34:50 - How much? 40:20 - Lessons

Last month, our founder Paul Anthony Williams sat down with Jack Bridger on the Scaling DevTools Podcast , just days after acquiring Jack’s project, StreamPot (an open-source FFmpeg API). They swapped war stories about scaling media pipelines and why serverless functions crumble under

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Building video pipelines feels impossible… until you realize ittybit is the recipe. 😆

Good luck scaling your DIY pipelines…

When product asks why you need an API key for everything.

The aura is simple. Respect builders. Remove friction. Let them ship.

Tiny

nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked people will remember: - how smooth your media pipeline ran

look bestie, the $100k I spent on Media Infrastructure is now $5000 MRR

Found a hack for finishing work on a Monday Morning and deploying on Friday.