What rubs you the wrong way about the video? Does it being this lighthearted make you question their engineering talent? Why are fun and skill mutually exclusive? I would like to know since I am working on a B2B project, and contemplating wacky marketing.
I 100% agree. I love the video and it honestly makes me feel more connected to the brand. Keep up the good work, I think this can only help you stand out in an increasingly crowded space.
I think it depends entirely on the product/audience. The selling points around infrastructure tooling are stability and reliability. Zany marketing like this invokes an "unpredictable" feeling in me which I'm not sure is a good fit.
Explain why you think $1B at $5B valuation isn't overvaluation? This strikes me as over-indexing on Ilya + teams ability to come up with something novel while trying to play catch-up.
This is one of those things I wouldn't suggest you solve with the "roll your own" approach. There are some good libraries out there that will handle this and more. Uppy is one that comes to mind. I created and maintained another popular one for 7 years that i sunset in 2017.
Currently using react-dropzone seems to solve most of the major issues for me. Use that to get a signed URL via API, then upload from client to image server directly.
Many exploits involve running arbitrary code hidden in encoded image and video files, notably Pegasus among others. This should be treated as cryptography.
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