Blog - Gumlet
Thoughts, stories and ideas about video transcoding and delivery.
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.
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.
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
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.
Content Management Update
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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
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
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.
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
Summer '22 Update ☀️
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After successfully launching our video platform in January, we have been working to make it more feature-rich and intuitive for all of you in the last few months. Let's jump right in! DRM 🔐 This was one of the most requested features. DRM support is now available across all devices on the planet. We support both Widevine and Fairplay DRM to protect your content. These are the same systems used by Netflix and Amazon Prime to protect their content. The entire complexity of DRM is abstracted a