Reflections From a Underprivileged Software Engineer How Brian Nguyen started working as a software engineer at Kapwing, and his path to get there.
We increased our revenue by lowering prices There's a common rallying cry amongst Silicon Valley investors and tech Twitter pundits: raise prices! Marc Andreesen, the famous tech founder turned VC, went as far as to say he would hire a
Top YouTubers Who Swear the Most In this article, we're revealing the top YouTubers who swear the most. Did your favorite creator make the cut?
Kapwing Plugins Introducing Share to TikTok on Kapwing Now, video creators can publish TikToks directly from the web! Make a video in the Kapwing Studio and use the TikTok button to share teh video directly to social media.
Which MUNI Lines are Usually Late? With the mask mandate eased and more of our team wanting to work from our office in San Francisco, the number of employees commuting on public transportation has been increasing over the past
10 Non-Secrets for Success I’ve Learned in 4 Years as a Founder In honor of Kapwing's four year anniversary, I wanted to share some of my learnings from the journey in Startup Land. Here's 10 non-secrets to success for other entrepreneurs just starting out.
There's no such thing as an organic positive review When we first set out to build Kapwing, a collaborative online video editor, our approach to getting positive reviews online was to focus solely on building a good product. We subscribed to the
Content Marketing What I've Learned from the 16 Engineers who Turned Down Job Offers at Our Startup In our three years of trying to recruit top engineering talent, we've made 36 job offers to engineering candidates, and 16 of them turned us down. Here's what I've learned about convincing engineers to join your startup.
Should we put a weight rack in the office? Recently, our team at Kapwing moved into a new office space that we've been using sparingly due to the pandemic. As part of setting up the new space, we dealt with a variety
Our AI Art Generator Isn't Being Used To Generate Art When the VQGAN+CLIP image and video generation techniques started trending on Twitter earlier this month, I was excited to try it out for myself. I've always been interested in the intersection with
Scaling Kapwing to 100k+ Projects a Day After more than a decade of engineering experience, I joined Kapwing in 2018 as the first employee. Now, I lead the engineering organization and have touched nearly every part of the stack. In
Kapwing Plugins Introducing Kapwing Plugins We're opening up Kapwing to developers, animators, musicians, and more to build a video editor for modern creators. Welcome to Kapwing Plugins and the future of online video editing.
How We Built It: Audiograms in the Browser with Web Audio API & HTML Canvas In Kapwing Studio, users can upload an audio or video file of their podcast, favorite song, or interview and make an animated representation of the audio frequency and amplitude over time using our Audio Waveform tool.
SEO Content Cleanup: How We Acquired 100k Users on Search by Updating Old Content In the first quarter of 2021, we ran 7 experiments on content maintenance to measure the ROI of refreshing old SEO content. Here's everything we learned.
Green Screen in the Browser With HTML Canvas Kapwing's Studio now supports chroma key-based background removal, also known as green screen editing. This allows users to upload green screen videos, remove the green background, and replace it with whatever they choose.
Product Analytics at Startups A solid product analytics stack is the foundation of data-driven culture. But, in the early days, how and when should founders invest in their startup's product analytics stack? This article explains how to set up a product analytics stack and enforce good data hygiene at a startup.
Why Online is the Future for Creative Software As we've grown Kapwing to millions of creators, people - especially professionals used to the Adobe suite - sometimes discount our product because it's fully online. Given decades of reliance on heavyweight desktop
How We Consistently Write Trending Content Trend Content Marketing has helped us scale our business to millions of users and hundreds of thousands of MRR. This article shares how we have scaled our approach to trending content
How to Implement Undo in a React + Redux Application How to implement undo functionality in a react + redux web application. This article explains how we designed Kapwing's undo stack with notes on technical design and edge cases. A resource for other web developers adding undo to a browser-based productivity app.
How to Grow a SaaS Startup on YouTube: Learnings from Year 1 How does a startup get to their first 1000 YouTube subscribers and leverage YouTube to grow a SaaS business? In this article, I share our journey for other founders considering YouTube as an organic growth channel for their startup.
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